Justin Winsor, Scholar-librarian
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 204
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Pioneers in Librarianship
Author: Christian A. Nappo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-02-28
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1538148765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneers in Librarianship profiles sixty notable librarians who made significant contributions to the field. Librarians chosen for inclusion in this volume met one or more of these three criteria: The librarian conceived a new method for improving library services, invented their own method of book cataloging, or devised an administrative system for libraries to operate under. The librarian is historically famous because he/she was notable historically. The librarian was the first woman or minority to make significant achievements within the field of LIS. The achievements of the librarians profiled here are important because they shaped the field. Many of their theories, ideas, and contributions are still being utilized in libraries today. Librarians profiled here include Melvil Dewey, Carla Hayden, S. R. Ranganathan, Justin Winsor, Charles Coffin Jewett, Katharine Sharp, Pura Belpré, Allie Beth Martin, and John Cotton Dana.
Librarianship in Gilded Age America
Author: Leonard Schlup
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0786454830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gilded age was a formative period in the development and extension of American libraries. Between 1868 and 1901, the field of librarianship saw many notable changes, including the founding of the American Library Association, the introduction of the Dewey decimal classification system, and the establishment of the pioneer library school at Columbia University, among other key developments. This book brings together the writings of foundational figures in Gilded Age librarianship, including Charles Ammi Cutter, Melvil Dewey, Andrew Carnegie and Richard Rogers Bowker. Featuring seminal works of library scholarship alongside previously unpublished letters and reprints of long forgotten journal articles, the book places each selection in chronological order and includes an introductory narrative for each entry.
A Brief History of the Future of Libraries
Author: Gregg Sapp
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780810841963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we enter a new millennium, librarianship and other information professions are swept up in a period of rapid, almost frantic, change. But while there is widespread recognition that libraries in the future will be vastly different from what we know today, precisely how this change will occur is and always has been a matter of considerable speculation. To this end, Gregg Sapp has analyzed library-based predictions made between 1978, the year F.W. Lancaster published Toward Paperless Information Systems, and 1999;and compared them with seminal works published since 1876, the publication of the first issue of American Library Journal. Includes [between 500 and 700] annotated entries.
Library Research in Progress
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 288
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Author: Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 498
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Author: Bibliographical Society of America
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the Anthropological Grain
Author: Wilcomb E. Washburn
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781412816632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Against the Anthropological Grain Washburn critically examines key anthropological beliefs, especially in the importance of cultural relativism and Western colonialism's harmful effects on Third World cultures. He turns the tables on theorists from the discipline. He questions whether anthropology has a credible past, whether anthropologists should even involve themselves in inter-tribal conflicts, whether museums should return "sacred objects" from their collections, and whether museums provide adequate physical care of their collections.
Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Herbert Rowland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1683932676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century, Herbert Rowland argues that the literary criticism accompanying the publication of Hans Christian Andersen’s works in the United States compares favorably in scope, perceptiveness, and chronological coverage with the few other national receptions of Andersen outside of Denmark. Rowland contends that American commentators made it abundantly evident that, in addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote several novels, travelogues, and an autobiography which were all of more than common interest. In the process, Rowland shows that American commentators “naturalized” Andersen in the United States by confronting the sensationalism in the journalism and literature of the time with the perceived wholesomeness of Andersen’s writing, deploying his long fiction on both sides of the debate over the nature and relative value of the romance and the novel, and drawing on three of his works to support their positions on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
