LIS 604: History of Libraries and Librarianship
Bibliography
FOR REFERENCE USE:
GENERAL:
The Encyclopedia of Library History (Ref. Z721 .E54 1994)
Subject encyclopedia, International in Scope.
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, (Ref. Z1006 .E57)
Now 71 volumes, only volumes 1-45 indexed.
Good “first-stop shopping.”
American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature (Z731.D38 1989)
Includes dissertations, but now decades out of date.
Subjects arranged by broad topics (e.g., type of library; type of service;
biography; then by state, or person, with chronological list of
citations.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dictionary of American Library Biography Ref .Z720.A4 D5 (“DALB”)
--Supplement (1990)—39 additional biographies
--Supplement (2002, forthcoming)
Pioneers in Services to Youth (2003) Z720.A4 P56 2003 c.1 (also online)
Same general principles as for DALB, for youth and school librarians. Some
sketches are reprinted from the DALB, above.
JOURNALS:
Libraries & the Cultural Record (Formerly The Journal of Library History, 1965- 1887;
Libraries & Culture, 1988-2006) , quarterly, Z671 .J67 2006Project Muse
L&C’s biennial review of writings in library history and book reviews are useful. They
are published in the newsletter, which you can access through the ALA website on the Library
History Round Table web page (see below).
LHRT Newsletter <http://www.spertus.edu/library-history/>
Biannual publication of the ALA Library History Round Table
Bibliographies at the end of each issue are a useful way to keep up with what
is published.
Library History (UK) Z721 .L634 ; 1982-93 in storage. 1993- available at
http://www.clip.org.uk/groups/lhg/welcome.html
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The following journals/annuals also contain some noteworthy historical articles:
Book History (annual, 1998-; consists of selections from the papers presented
annually by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing. (Project Muse; http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/book_history/ )
Library Quarterly, 1931- Z671 .L713
Full text available online at Infotrac OneFile via
NC LIVE (1995-) or EbscoHost Academic Search Elite via NC LIVE 1993-
Includes all areas of research, including library history, as do the following:
Libri 1950- Z671 .L74 , library has v.20 (1970) through v.38(1988) in storage, and 1989-1998 on
the shelf. Not currently received, but full-text available on Library Literature and Information
Science Full Text; 1984-93 citations only; 1994- full text.
LISR (Library and Information Science Research), 1978 - Z671 .L7153 v5&6 (1983-84) in
storage; 1986- on shelf. Full text available on Library Literature and Information Science Full
Text, 1994-)
Library Trends Z671 .L6173, 1949- Also available online through the catalog.
Several volumes devoted to library history exclusively, e.g., “American
Library History, 1876-1976” (July, 1976) and “History of Library and
Information Science Education” (Winter, 1986).
Also: State histories and biographies (North Carolina Biography), national biographies
(Notable American Women, etc.), local library history, state library journals, and local
history generally.
SELECTED MONOGRAPHS:
nb: This is not an exhaustive list. More titles are available throughout the
library science collection in JACKSON LIBRARY.
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Canfora, Luciano. The Vanished Library, tr. Martin Ryle. London: Hutchinson Radius,
1989. Z722.5 .C3513 1989
Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. Z722.C37
2001.
Too, Yun Lee. The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World. New York: Oxford UP,
2010. Z722.T66 2010
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THE UNITED STATES
GENERAL AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Battles, David M. The History of Public Access for African Americans in the South, or
Leaving Behind the Plow. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 2009. Z711.9 .B38
2009
Bobinski, George S. Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact upon the American
Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association, 1969.
Z731 .B67
Dain, Phyllis. The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early Years.
New York: New York Public Library, 1972. Z733 .N59 1972
Downey, Lawrence J. A Live Thing in the Whole Town: The History of the IndianapolisMarion County Public Library, 1873-1990. Indianapolis: The Public Library
Foundation, 1991. Z733.I43 D680 1991
Glynn, Tom. Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2015.
Jones, Alston Plummer, Jr. Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience
Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1999. Z711.8 .J66 1999.
or
Jones, Alston Plummer, Jr. Still Struggling for Equality: American Public Library
Services for Minorities. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Kalisch, Philip A. The Enoch Pratt Free Library: A Social History. Metuchen, NJ: The
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1969. Z733.B142 K3
Kaser, David. Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience.
Westport, Ct: Greenwood, 1984. Z1039.S6 K37 1984
Martin, Robert S. Carnegie Denied: Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library
Construction Grants, 1898-1925. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. (P. C.)
McMullen, Haynes. American Libraries Before 1876. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
Z731 .M365 2000
Pawley, Christine. Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in LateNineteenth Century Osage, Iowa. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts,
2001. Z1003.3.I7 P39 2001
__________. Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War
America. Boston and Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
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Shera, Jesse. Foundations of the Public Library: The Origins of the Public Library
Movement in New England, 1629-1855. Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1949. Z731 .S55
Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces
in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Z732.M69 W54 2011
Wolff, Katherine. Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum. Amherst:
The University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Brough, Kenneth J. Scholar’s Workshop: Evolving Conceptions of Library Service.
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1953. (P.C.)
Clemons, Harry. The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950: Story of a Jeffersonian
Foundation. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1954. Z733.V66 C6
Hamlin, Arthur T. The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and
Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Z675.U5
H19
Shiflett, O. Lee. Origins of American Academic Librarianship. Norwood, NJ: Ablex,
1981. Z668 .S52
Wiegand, Wayne A., ed. Leaders in American Academic Librarianship, 1925-1975. Beta
Phi Mu, Chapbook No. 16, 1983. Z720.A4 L4 1983
ASSOCIATIONS
Holley, Edward G. Raking the Historical Coals: The A.L.A. Scrapbook of 1876. (Beta Phi
Mu Chapbook No, 8, 1967. Z673.A52 H6
Thomison, Dennis. A History of the American Library Association, 1876-1972. Chicago:
American Library Association, 1978. Z673.A52 T48
Utley, George B. The Librarians Conference of 1853, Chicago: American Library
Association, 1951. Z673.A49 U7
Young, Arthur P. Books for Sammies: The American Library Association and World War I. Beta
Phi Mu, Chapbook No. 15, 1981. Z675.W2 Y68 1981
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BIOGRAPHY
Ardizzone, Heidi. An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to
Privilege .New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. Z720 G83 .A89 2007
Beck, Clare. The New Woman as Librarian: The Career of Adelaide Hasse . Metuchen, NJ:
Scarecrow Press, 2006. Z720.H35 B43 2006
Fleming, E McClung. R. R. Bowker: Militant Liberal. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1952. Z473.B68 F55
Grotzinger, Laurel A. The Power and the Dignity: Librarianship and Katherine Sharp. New
York: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1966. Z720.S5 G7
Holley, Edward G. Charles Evans: American Bibliographer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1963. Z1004.E85 H6
Passet, Joanne. Sex-Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster. New York: Da
Capo, June, 2008. HQ75.4.F67 P37 2008
Richardson, John V., Jr. The Gospel of Scholarship: Pierce Butler and a Critique of American
Librarianship Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. Z720.B98 R53 1992
Sullivan, Peggy. Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association. New York: H. W.
Wilson, 1976. Z720.M62 S84
Shiflett, Lee. Louis Shores: Defining Educational Librarianship. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1996. Z720.S53 S55 1996
Wiegand, Wayne A. The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and The
Old Librarian’s Almanac. Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1979. Z682.5.P43 W54
__________. Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. Chicago: American Library
Association, 1996. Z720.D5 W54 1996
__________. Leaders in American Academic Librarianship, 1925-1975. Pittsburgh and
Chicago: Beta Phi Mu and American Library Association, 1983. Z720.A4 L4
1983
Williamson, William L. William Frederick Poole and the Modern Library Movement.
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.
CENSORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
Karetsky, Stephen. Not Seeing Red: American Librarianship and the Soviet Union, 19171960.Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.(P.C.)
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Robbins, Louise S. Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association’s
Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1996. Z711.4 .R58 1996
__________. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American
Way. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Z733.B283 R63
Samek, Toni. Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship,
1967-1974. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2001. Z716.4 .S26 2001
Wiegand, Shirley A. and Wiegand, Wayne A. Books on Trial: Red Scare in the
Heartland. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2007. KF221.P6 W54 2007
Wiegand, Wayne A. “An Active Instrument for Propaganda:” The American Public Library
During World War I. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989. Z731 .W733 1989
GENDER/LGBT/AFRICAN AMERICANS/SOCIAL ISSUES
Ardizzone, Heidi. An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to
Privilege .New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. Z720 G83 .A89 2007
Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920.New
York: Free Press, 1979. Z731 .G38
Hildenbrand, Suzanne, ed. Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. Z682.4.W65 R43
Passet, Joanne E. Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1994. Z682.4.W65 P37 1994
Passet, Joanne. Sex-Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster. New York: Da
Capo, June, 2008. HQ75.4.F67 P37 2008
“THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION”, C. 1965Carmichael, James V., Jr., ed. Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library
History. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Z682.4.G39 D37 1998
Roberto, K. R. and West, Jessamyn. Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
(Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Press, 2003) Z665 .R44 2003
Tucker, John M., ed. Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship. Urbana:
University of Illinois, 1998. Z711.9 .U58 1998
West, Celeste, Elizabeth Katz, et al, eds. Revolting Librarians (San Francisco, CA:
Booklegger Press, 1972). Z665 .W47
LIBRARY EDUCATION
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Davis, Donald G. The Association of American Library Schools, 1915-1968: An
Analytical History. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1974. Z668 .D35
Vann, Sarah K. Training for Librarianship Before 1923: Education Prior to the
Publication of Williamson’s Report on Training for Library Service. Chicago:
American Library Association, 1961. Z668 .V3 1961
White, Carl M. A Historical Introduction to Library Education: Problems and Progress
to 1951 Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Z668 .W54 1976
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