Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X348122
S. Jantson
Abstract The article handles general developments and changes in book trade and publishing which took place in Estonia during the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The aim is to show the publishing activities of Estonian booksellers and to analyse the activities of Estonian booksellers and development of book production (printing) and publishing of Estonian language books. The survey is based on the research literature and on the master thesis by Signe Jantson, Book Trade in Estonia 1850–1917: Bookshops and their Owners. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century the book production and dissemination in Estonia was in the hands of Baltic German entrepreneurs and depended on the political and economic developments not only in Russia but also in Germany. The Estonian national awakening movement was preceded by the birth of Estonian national literature in the middle of the nineteenth century. In the period of the next fifty years the publication of Estonian language books increased tenfold. The second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century was still favourable for the book trade: 263 new shops were opened and 283 new persons tried to start book trade businesses, but trading with books did not guarantee sufficient income and the bookshop owners were often engaged in other spheres. Among the 283 bookshop owners, 83 headed companies comprising the publishing house, the printing office, and the bookshop.
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Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X348087
Toni Weller
Abstract For the Victorians, just as for us, information and knowledge were being used and manipulated in a complex series of ways to sell, to inform, and to represent a culturally fluid and dynamic information society. Based upon a detailed empirical study of every weekly issue of the British Penny Magazine and the IllustratedLondon News (ILN) for a period of twelve months between May 1842 and May 1843, this paper argues that there was a strong contemporary awareness of this dynamism. Both The Penny Magazine and the ILN embraced the idea of preserving knowledge by themselves becoming part of the process of preservation, in a conscious effort to become objects of reference and of the historical record. In contrast to the notion that such publications were largely ephemeral products of the Victorian publishing world, it is suggested in this paper that The Penny Magazine and the ILN contributed to, and reflected the desire to see, knowledge popularly preserved and referenced as well as popularly disseminated, and that they had a substantial and significant degree of success in their editorial efforts.
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Pub Date : 2008-09-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X348104
Mats Dolatkhah
Abstract In this paper it is observed that an orientation towards the library user is occurring within the field of library history. As reading is an important aspect of library use, it is suggested that library history would benefit from using approaches and perspectives developed by historians of reading. These approaches could be used to support the growing interest in the library user. A concept of 'reading rules' is applied to a source material consisting of retrospective interviews containing information on children's reading practices within the context of the family in early twentieth-century Sweden. It is thereby demonstrated that parents applied different rules to their children's reading, and that these rules conditioned the children's reading and library practices.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329835
H. Gaunt
Abstract Investigates nationalism in the public library in Australia from Federation in 1901 to the 1930s. Australian public libraries actively participated in the nation building project and the creation of a differentiated Australian library culture through an assertion of the values of civic reform enhanced by new professionalism and an 'inscription of nation' through library commentary and practice. While this trend diminished in the short term after Federation, in the longer term Australian libraries maintained a commitment to nationalistic values, principally through the archiving of Australian historical papers and publications, and the assimilation of Australian fiction into their predominantly British collections. This paper examines these phenomena in relation to the Public Library of Tasmania, demonstrating how the peculiarities of the local history and environment, as well as the activities of library leaders and patrons, influenced the inscription of nation in the Library. In demonstrating these assertions, this paper will utilize some of the areas of examination proposed by G. K. Peatling, specifically discursive constructions of nations articulated by library administrators and commentators, stock control, and library law, amongst others.
研究1901年至30年代澳大利亚联邦时期公共图书馆的民族主义。澳大利亚公共图书馆积极参与国家建设项目，通过新专业主义强化的公民改革价值观的主张和通过图书馆评论和实践的“国家铭文”，创造了差异化的澳大利亚图书馆文化。虽然这一趋势在联邦成立后的短期内减弱了，但从长期来看，澳大利亚图书馆主要通过将澳大利亚的历史论文和出版物归档，并将澳大利亚的小说纳入其主要的英国馆藏，保持了对民族主义价值观的承诺。本文考察了与塔斯马尼亚州公共图书馆相关的这些现象，展示了当地历史和环境的特殊性，以及图书馆领导和赞助人的活动如何影响图书馆中国家的铭文。为了证明这些断言，本文将利用G. K. Peatling提出的一些研究领域，特别是图书馆管理员和评论员所阐述的国家话语结构、库存控制和图书馆法等。
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329808
I. Mäkinen
Abstract Argues that library and information history needs to become more theoretical. Examines the work of the economic historian Douglas C. North and suggests that the perspectives he presents might be exploited by library and information historians. It is the cultural heritage, including the accumulation and forms of knowledge, that determines levels of success in economies, something which has important implications for those conceptualizing and researching knowledge, or information, history.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329790
T. Reimo
Abstract This article aims to introduce research on book and library history in the Nordic and Baltic countries during the last ten to fifteen years. The role of historical subjects in library and information science (LIS) curricula has diminished in all curricula in Europe. As a result, a threat to the continuity of academic research can be observed. The books and articles on book and library history published in the Nordic and Baltic countries are difficult to access for the international community of researchers, as a majority of them have been published only in local languages. This article presents the main achievements in the history of the book, printing, publishing and the book trade, and library history. The publications presented in the article reflect the personal choice of the author. In 2006 Nordic and Baltic researchers joined the scholarly network HIBOLIRE (History of Books, Libraries and Reading). The activities of the network are financed by the Nordforsk Foundation. The aim of the network is to enhance collaboration between individual researchers and their home institutions, as well as to intensify doctoral studies and contacts between doctoral students.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329817
Robert J. Milevski, Valdis Villerušs
Abstract Religious books were an important part of a Latvian peasant's daily life during the mid- to late nineteenth century. From the physical evidence, these books were heavily used and became well worn. When originally bound, or following rebinding, the peasants applied metal furniture to the covers of the books as a practical measure to protect them from wear and tear. They infused the metal with designs and motifs familiar to them from everyday life. This adornment personifies the respect the peasants felt for their religious books — Bibles, hymnbooks and collections of sermons. As well, the designs mirror motifs as seen in folk arts, such as embroidery, jewellery, and furniture. Finally, the metal served a utilitarian purpose: to protect and preserve the book. These metal-clad bindings are known only in Latvia. They were produced in a particular part of the country and during a limited span of time, and are unique in bookbinding history.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329844
Margaret Hung
Abstract During World War II, a 'guerrilla war' took place on home territory. Though less public and less bloody than the main conflict, it was conducted with single-minded determination, resulting in mutual recrimination and bitterness and resentment on the side of the losers. The unlikely guerrillas were the hierarchy of the Library Association, principally Arundell Esdaile, Lionel McColvin and P. S. J. Welsford (President, Honorary Secretary and Secretary, respectively) and the targets of its attacks were the allied forces of the Army and the War Office. The issues over which hostilities were conducted were the administration of the Services Central Book Depot, a military organization charged with the collection and distribution of books to the Armed Forces, and the control of the Service Libraries and Books Fund, a body set up by the Lord Mayor of London to raise funds and public donations of books. The underlying causes of the conflict were the irreconcilably different ideologies and cultural values held by the main protagonists and the ambitions of the Library Association to extend its influence and assert control over the supply of books to the Armed Forces.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X329826
P. Delsaerdt
Abstract The author demonstrates that book and library history deserves a central place in library and information science programmes, but also that in order to obtain or keep this central place it needs to orient itself in a direction that is closer to the heart of what library and information science is about – the organization of knowledge and information-seeking behaviour. Book and library history can illustrate these processes and explain how they have developed in the past. Early phenomena of knowledge organization have to be studied in their broader contexts, and these contexts to a large extent cover the production, dissemination and consumption of books in the past. The main return that book history will get out of this process is that it will be more strongly integrated into academic teaching and research.
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Pub Date : 2008-03-01DOI: 10.1179/174581608X295293
C. Priscilla
Abstract Contextualizes the historical evolution of modern librarianship in East Asia, encompassing the sub-regions of North-East and South-East Asia, in the societies in which it emerged. Employs the theory of cultural hegemony, conceptualized by Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), as the foundation for viewing that evolution of East Asian librarianship. Discusses external influences, the role of human agency and technical and cultural heritage. A stated aim of the article is to reveal to practising and aspiring librarians, especially in East Asia, the cultural determinants of their professional history and help them gain a better understanding of the complex roots in the development of libraries globally.
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