Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.95
R. Kahn
Abstract The collection of three thousand Hebrew manuscripts at the Bodleian Library in Oxford is the largest in the United Kingdom. These manuscripts arrived at the Bodleiana over three centuries, from the first manuscripts collected by Christian Hebraists of the seventeenth century down to the various acquisitions during the nineteenth century. A catalogue compiled by Adolf Neubauer over eighteen years and published in 1886 is marred by serious flaws, mostly in the classification of the manuscripts and the indexes. By contrast the Supplement of Malachi Beit-Arie (I994), allows the researcher to underline the advances in Hebrew codicology and palaeography achieved since 1886.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.137
C. Baggs
Abstract George Gissing's short story Spellbound is a cautionary tale, which relates the increasingly drastic consequences of its 'hero's' intoxication with a public library newspaper and reading room (firmly based on a genuine example in St Martin's Lane, London). This article examines the detail of Gissing's realistic portrayal of the library, noting how a few contemporary public librarians highlighted the olfactory aspects in his description. Gissing's own considerable usage of all manner of libraries and frequent references to them and reading practices in his fiction are discussed, and an interpretation of his attitude towards public libraries and their usage by certain classes of reader offered.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.148
C. Baggs
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.152
S. Davies
has legal French. Likewise, the non-English languages spoken in the British Isles fall outside the limitations of 'foreign' imposed by the title, and in any event have been well covered elsewhere. Had the period been extended into the first half of the twentieth century then the number of languages requiring consideration would have been greatly enlarged and extended well beyond Europe. Several of the papers provide detailed case studies within their language areas such as Kate Rahman's study of the Free Russian Press between 1853 and 1870, or Morna Daniels account of the false memoirs of Louis XVI's valet. Several others offer small-scale surveys of their respective languages including Italian (two essays by Denis Reidy and Stephen Parkin), French (by David Shaw), Spanish and Portuguese (Barry Taylor) or Polish printing (Janet Zmroczek). Some essays seek to do both such as Anna Simoni's account of Dutch printing and detailed examination of some bilingual English and Dutch pamphlets of 1615, or Chris Michaelides' account of modern Greek printing followed by an account of the nineteenth-century publisher Stephanos Xenos. The essays are all written by acknowledged experts in their respective fields, either current or former members of the staff at the British Library. They are extensively and rigorously annotated, and there is no doubt that the volume presents a useful contribution to scholarship in an underresearched area. The main reservation I have about the collection lies in the use of the description 'systematic', on the dust jacket, which is only partly justified in terms of its coverage. Above all, the collection lacks an 'overview' focusing on the importance of London as the unifying factor among the different contributions, and outlining the scale of foreign-language printing and publishing compared to that in English. This task is performed to a limited degree within Clive Field's two-and-a-half page preface, and a single page statistical survey up to 1800 by David Shaw (which includes Latin, Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic, but inexplicably excludes Ancient and Modern Greek), but would have been done if they had been developed into a full-length chapter. For all its scholarship, the work does not really provide the 'insight into the history and development of London as a centre for the printing of non-English language material', which is also claimed on the wrapper. In other respects the work is nicely produced and appropriately illustrated. I wish, however, that the seven blank pages at the end might have been used to provide a second index of subjects and names other than the members of the book trades.
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Pub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1179/LIB.2004.20.1.76
K. A. Manley
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Pub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.1.19
H. Clausen
Abstract The Catholic Church has a long tradition of viewing libraries as key resources; indeed, in the monasteries of mediaeval times the library was simply called an armarium (in the sense of a closet where treasures were stored — a spiritual and intellectual arsenal). More than a hundred Catholic libraries have existed in Denmark from the middle of the seventeenth century up to the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). These libraries represent an almost virgin area of research. Once the new Danish Constitution (1849), which guaranteed religious liberty, allowed the Catholic Church legally to resume its work, the libraries appear to have been important resources for the Church in all its missionary, educational and pastoral activities. The history of an ancient Catholic theological research library (St Andrew's Library) and a Catholic 'public library' (Niels Steensen's Library) of more recent date, both in Copenhagen, are treated here. It is concluded that they — each in its own way — make valuable and useful supplements to the academic and public libraries in Denmark.
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Pub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.1.33
G. Peatling
Abstract This essay suggests that even the most inventive recent works in British public library history have been surprisingly deficient in assimilating the important conclusions of recent theories and historiography of national identity. The defence that library history can have nothing useful to say in relation to national identity is refuted with reference to this recent wider literature. Theoretical models for research into national identity in British public libraries for the period 1850–1919 are explored, particular areas of library history of relevance to national identity are described, and questions which should be considered in the further research this issue merits will be iterated.
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Abstract In spite of the limited evidence, some characteristic features of the cathedral libraries of medieval Hungary can be established. The case of the cathedral library of Esztergom illustrates the methodological problems and the limits of reconstructing the lost holdings of a medieval library. Library catalogues, the most important sources for the study of cathedral libraries in medieval Hungary, survive from the cathedrals of Veszprem (I435) and Zagreb (I394, I426). On the basis of these book registers that were incorporated into the general inventories of the cathedrals, it is possible to define what kinds of codices they possessed and to explore the structure of their libraries as well as the system of book provision. The way the inventories were compiled reveals the methods of manuscript cataloguing and the records of book loans provide an insight into the interest of the readers.
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Pub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.1.49
Helen Plant
Abstract Historical studies to date on the employment of women in librarianship have focused overwhelmingly on the public library sector. However, after the First World War, a different kind of library career also emerged for women in the technical libraries and scientific information bureaux of individual industrial enterprises and co-operative trade and industry research associations. Women's employment experiences in this field were shaped not by the discourses and practices of traditional librarianship, but by those of the industrial sector. Technical library and information work was the only branch of industry to which women science graduates were routinely appointed, but it also attracted a significant number of male recruits. Drawing on a range of sources including company archives, the records of Aslib and the Women's Employment Federation, and contemporary periodical and other literature, this paper explores the status and roles of women engaged in industrial library and information work between 1918 and 1960. It argues that deeply gendered workplace ideology restricted even as it permitted women's employment, but also illuminates how some women scientists were able to seize on this rare opening as a means both of negotiating responsible careers in the overwhelmingly hostile industrial environment and of making influential contributions to the development of the technical library and information field. This paper is based on research undertaken for the AHRB-funded research project 'The early information society in Britain, 1900–1975' in the School of Information Management, Leeds Metropolitan University. Thanks to Alistair Black and David Muddiman for helpful discussions on earlier drafts of this work.
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Pub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1179/lib.2004.20.1.75
P. Sturges
The IFLA Round Table on Library History has existed for many years mainly as a body that provides an element of library history programming for the annual IFLA conferences. However, its founder Paul Kaegbein was never content with this limited role and succeeded in occasionally encouraging library historians to put on conferences at other times of the year under the Round Table's flag. One of the most enthusiastic of those conference organizers was Magnus Torstensson, who carried on Kaegbein's tradition with the Boras conference of which the volume under review is the proceedings. The proceedings establish that the conference was a great success· and a credit to both Torstensson and the Round Table. Indeed, one or two of the papers given at the conference do not appear in the proceedings because they have already appeared elsewhere in prestigious journals. The focus on the 1960s and 1970S is an interesting one because it was likely that contributors would include many historians who remembered the 1960s themselves (unless their participation in those heady days had been too wholehearted to allow memory to persist). This seemed to offer the possibility of a conference that was much more than just academic history, and the proceedings suggest that is exactly what happened. In particular, Terry Weech's paper on his own experiences of library education at the University of Illinois during the period showed just how Torstensson was right to feel that there was something sufficiently distinctive about it to merit its own conference. Weech reminds us of the special mood of optimism and activism that was in the air and shows that it did have its impact on the library and information world. Because the conference contributors came from both Europe and other parts of the world in roughly equal numbers, they presented the possibility of looking at the 1960s and 1970S from a good number of perspectives. Papers dealt with fourteen different countries and most of them focused strongly on examining whether or not, in Bob Dylan's words, the times they were a' changing. The answer is, interestingly enough, mixed. In some ways, the most striking paper is Judy Clayden's account of librarians in Australia. She is able to show quite clearly that the profession in Australia was overwhelmingly conservative, and whilst not closed off to technical developments only a few members were interested in the current social issues. Valentino Morales-Lopez shows that, in a slightly similar way, Mexican librarians concentrated on professional developments rather than direct interface with social change. The sequence of papers in the proceedings places Clayden's paper next to Hermina Anghelescu's very different account of the struggles of the Romanian profession to survive under the Ceaucescu dictatorship. Censorship of publications and the use of libraries to support the state propaganda apparatus stultified development and the profession was left poorly trained and powerless to a
国际图联图书馆史圆桌会议已经存在多年，主要是作为一个机构，为国际图联年度会议提供图书馆史规划的要素。然而，它的创始人Paul Kaegbein从不满足于这个有限的角色，他偶尔成功地鼓励图书馆的历史学家在一年中的其他时间在圆桌会议的旗帜下召开会议。马格努斯·托斯滕松(Magnus Torstensson)是这些会议组织者中最热心的人之一，他在波拉斯会议上继承了凯格拜因的传统，这本书就是会议记录。会议记录表明，这次会议取得了巨大的成功，是托斯滕松和圆桌会议的荣誉。事实上，在会议上发表的一到两篇论文没有出现在会议记录中，因为它们已经出现在其他著名期刊上。对20世纪60年代和70年代的关注是一个有趣的问题，因为它的贡献者很可能包括许多自己也记得20世纪60年代的历史学家(除非他们对那些令人兴奋的日子的参与太过全心全意，以至于记忆无法持久)。这似乎提供了一种可能性，那就是召开一次不仅仅是学术史的会议，而会议记录表明，事实正是如此。特别值得一提的是，特里·威奇(Terry Weech)关于他自己在伊利诺伊大学(University of Illinois)图书馆教育经历的论文表明，托斯滕森的看法是正确的，他认为图书馆教育有足够独特的地方，值得自己开一次会议。《周》让我们想起了弥漫在空气中的乐观主义和行动主义的特殊情绪，并表明它确实对图书馆和信息世界产生了影响。由于会议的撰稿人来自欧洲和世界其他地区的人数大致相同，他们提出了从多个角度看待20世纪60年代和70年代的可能性。论文涉及14个不同的国家，其中大部分都集中在研究，用鲍勃·迪伦的话来说，这些国家的时代是否在“变化”。有趣的是，答案是喜忧参半。在某些方面，最引人注目的论文是朱迪·克莱顿(Judy Clayden)对澳大利亚图书管理员的描述。她能够非常清楚地表明，澳大利亚的专业是压倒性的保守，而不是封闭的技术发展，只有少数成员对当前的社会问题感兴趣。瓦伦蒂诺·莫拉莱斯-洛佩斯(Valentino Morales-Lopez)以一种稍微类似的方式表明，墨西哥图书馆员专注于专业发展，而不是与社会变革直接接触。会议记录中的论文顺序将Clayden的论文放在Hermina Anghelescu非常不同的关于罗马尼亚职业在齐奥塞斯库独裁统治下生存的斗争的描述旁边。对出版物的审查和利用图书馆来支持国家宣传机构阻碍了发展，这一职业缺乏训练，无力尝试对社会产生积极影响。无论是在澳大利亚、墨西哥还是罗马尼亚，这个行业都无法以各自不同的方式对这种变化的情绪做出反应。然而，与此同时，荷兰的玛丽安·科伦，德国的彼得·沃多塞克，芬兰的伊尔卡·马基宁，丹麦的奥勒·哈博和皮埃尔·埃瓦尔德，还有伦纳特
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