Libraries without borders : new directions in library history / edited by Steven A. Knowlton, Ellen M. Pozzi, Jordan S. Sly, Emily D. Spunaugle ; foreword by Renate L. Chancellor.
"This volume has its origins in Library History Seminar XIV, held in June 2021"--Page ix. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Afterword: Library History Seminar XIV: The Conference We Wanted to Have / Bernadette Lear. Part IV: The Practice of Library History. 1. Locating Activism and Memory: Reimagining 1960s Civil Rights Familial Communities in a Library and Information Context / LaVerne Gray, Beth Patin, Tyler Youngman, and Rachel Nutt -- 2. "Thank You, Father, For Your Grand Cooperation": Outreach and the Founding of the Marian Library / Henry Handley -- Part II: Library Outreach Beyond Borders. Uncharted Waters: a History of the Bibliographic Instruction Movement and Its Administrative Context / Kelly Hangauer -- Part III: Boundary-Setting and Conflicts in Library History. 4. Better Late than Never: Stories of Long Overdue Books / John DeLooper -- 5. Defining the Boundaries of Propaganda: Informational Materials Subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in American Research Libraries / Emily D. Spunaugle -- Part IV: The Practice of Library History. 6. Getting Started: Research in the History of American Libraries / Thomas Glynn -- 7. Illuminating Diversity in History Research and Education: A Shared Past, Present, and Future / Loriene Roy and Rea N. Simons -- Afterword: Library History Seminar XIV: The Conference We Wanted to Have / Bernadette Lear.
Summary:
"This resource brings together leading library history scholars and new voices to investigate lesser known avenues and historicize library services-finding nontraditional stories and erasing borders between library service subcategories in the general library historiography"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.