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Spring 2006, 41:2

Articles

 “One Cathedral More” or “Mere Lounging Places for Bummers”? The Cultural Politics of Leisure and the Public Library in Gilded Age America
Alexis McCrossen

Growing up with Books: Fanny Seward’s Book Collecting, Reading, and Writing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York State
Deirdre C. Stam

Mapping Activities of Artists in the Past: A Bibliometric Study of the Library of the Scandinavian Association in Rome until 1870
Fredrik Åström and Lennart Pettersson

Notes & Essays

Tradition and Protean Nature—Journals and Scholarly Communication
Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel

Book Reviews

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China by Kai-Wing Chow
Frederick Nesta

Archives & nations dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle compiled by Bruno Delmas and Christine Nougaret
Yannick Portebois

Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century by Rebecca Knuth
David Kaser

Adventures in Russian Historical Research – Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present edited by Samuel H. Baron and Cathy A. Frierson
Marc Raeff

Magna Commoditas: A History of the Leiden University Library, 1575–2005 by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Vanessa Cameron

Widener: Biography of a Library by Matthew Battles
William Martin

A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Librarian of the City of New York, 1920–1952 by Barry W. Seaver
Plummer Alston “Al” Jones, Jr.

Selected Works of Alfred K’aiming Ch’iu in Library Science edited by Cheng Huanwen
Jing Liao

The La Trobe Journal: Redmond Barry Number edited by John Barnes and Shane Carmody
David J. Jones

American Masonic Periodicals, 1811-2001. A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. by Larissa P. Watkins
Michael A. LaMagna

The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays by Stephen Dow Beckham, Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner, and Paul Merchant
Ron Tyler

Revue française d’histoire du livre, nos. 118-121 edited by Frédéric Barbier
Jack Kessler

The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing by Robert E. Belknap
Robert N. Matuozzi

Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History by Peter Fritzsche
Bette W. Oliver

Le Livre & ses secrets by Jean-Francois Gilmont
Caitlin Tillman

Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Marilyn L. Miller
Amanda Williams

Still Struggling for Equality: American Public Library Services with Minorities by Plummer A. Jones, Jr.
Susan K. Burke

Offrir Internet en bibliothèque publique by Gaëlle Enjalbert
Jack Kessler

No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
J.G. Matthews

Winter 2006, 41:1

Special Issue: The Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
Sarah Wadsworth, Issue Editor

Articles

Preface
Sarah Wadsworth

Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry in the Woman’s Building Library
Angela Sorby

Publicizing Domestic Piety: The Cultural Work of Religious Texts in the Woman’s Building Library Candy Gunther Brown

African American Women’s Writings in the Woman’s Building Library
Amina Gautier

Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the World's Columbian Exposition
Barbara Hochman

Illinois Women’s Novels at the Woman’s Building Library
Bernice E. Gallagher

Little Pilgrims’ Progress: Literary Horizons for Children’s Literature
Anne Lundin

Notes & Essays

Afterword: The Woman’s Building Library and History
Emily B. Todd

 The Cover
Sarah Wadsworth

 

Fall 2005, 40:4

Articles

The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York
Tom Glynn

Recasting the Debate: The Sign of the Library in Popular Culture
Kornelia Tancheva

Notes & Essays

The Queen Mary 2 Library
Richard D. Burbank

The Cover
Judith Overmier and Larisa Somsel

Book Reviews

French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 by Steven Kale
Rosamund Hooper-Hamersley

The Human Web: A Bird’s Eye View of World History by J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill
Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome edited by I. M. Plant
Jennifer Burek Pierce

William Bradford’s Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word by Douglas Anderson
Julie Sievers

Guangdong Tushuguan Xuehui Sishi Nian ( The Guangdong Library Association: 40 Years), edited by Cheng Huanwen
Priscilla C. Yu

Books, Friends, and Bibliophilia: Reminiscences of an Antiquarian Bookseller by Anton Gerits
Michael Levine-Clark

Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994 by B.C. Bloomfield
Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study by Richard L. Purdy, edited by Charles C. Pettit
J.G. Matthews

The Book History Reader edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery
Aileen Fyfe

Thirty Years of Electronic Records edited by Bruce I. Ambacher
Patricia Galloway

Libraries, the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging edited by Charles F. Thomas
Kelly Lynn Anders

Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians by Michael Gorman
Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Foundations of Library and Information Science, 2nd ed. by Richard E. Rubin
Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Index to Volume 40

 

Summer 2005, 40:3

Perceiving the Past: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Edited by Cheryl Knott Malone, Hermina G. B. Anghelescu, and John Mark Tucker

Articles

Introduction: Donald G. Davis, Jr.: A Gentleman and a Scholar
Cheryl Knott Malone, Hermina G. B. Anghelescu, and John Mark Tucker

The Cover
Judith Overmier

Library History Education and Research

History in the Library and Information Science Curriculum: Outline of a Debate
Christine Pawley

Early American Imprint Bibliography and Its Stories: An Introductory Course in Bibliographical Civics Donald W. Krummel

Assessing What We Wrote: A Review of the Libraries & Culture Literature Reviews, 1967-2002 Edward A. Goedeken

Quantifying the "Goodness" of Library History Research: A Bibliometric Study of the Journal of Library History/Libraries & Culture
Andrew B. Wertheimer

Libraries, Books, and Culture

In Union There Is Strength: The Farmers' Institute and the Western Literary Union Library
David M. Hovde and John W. Fritch

Reading Hilda's Home: Gender, Print Culture, and
the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America
Joanne E. Passet

Southern Librarianship and the Culture of Resentment
James V. Carmichael, Jr.

Changing the Geography of Reading in a Southern Border State: The Rosenwald Fund and the WPA in Oklahoma
Louise S. Robbins

Collecting Contested Titles: The Experience of Five Small Public Libraries in the Rural Midwest, 1893-1956
Wayne Wiegand

International Perspectives

The Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815-2005
John Y. Cole

American Bookwomen in Paris during the 1920s Mary Niles Maack

The Library as Clinic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of British Public Library Attitudes to Social and Physical Disease, ca. 1850-1950
Alistair Black

European Integration: Are Romanian Libraries Ready?
Hermina G. B. Anghelescu

Legacy of a Mentor

From Libraries & Culture to the Bibliothèque nationale
Bette W. Oliver

Fides et Historia: Christian Sources for the Professional Contributions of Donald G. Davis, Jr. John Mark Tucker

Chronology and Bibliography of Donald G. Davis, Jr.