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Information & Culture

 

Editor: William Aspray, University of Texas at Austin

Information & Culture, formerly Libraries & the Cultural Record, publishes high-quality historical studies of topics that fall under information studies as it is practiced by the interdisciplinary information schools. New topics include the intellectual history of the concept of information; the historical development of information as an aspect of societies; the history of information work and information workers across society; and the history of information seeking behavior in everyday life, both within and beyond traditional information institutions such as libraries and museums.

Formerly titled Libraries & the Cultural Record, the journal adopted its new title as of issue 47:1. The new ISSN is 2164-8034.

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Information & Culture is a member of the Conference of Historical Journals. It is indexed and/or abstracted in America: History and Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Index, Bulletin des Bibliothéques de France, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, Historical Abstracts, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), ISI Alerting Services, Journal of American History (Organization of American Historians), Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library Literature, MLA International Bibliography, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

Information & Culture Editorial Office website with more information on the journal

Submission Guidelines

2013, 48:1
2012, 47:4
2012, 47:3
2012, 47:2
2012, 47:1
2011, 46:4
2011, 46:3
2011, 46:2
2011, 46:1
2010, 45:4
2010, 45:3
2010, 45:2
2010, 45:1
2009, 44:4
2009, 44:3
2009, 44:2
2009, 44:1
2008, 43:4
2008, 43:3
2008, 43:2
2008, 43:1
Archives

Volume 48, Number 1, 2013

The Origins of a State Library: New Jersey, 1704-1824
John T. Shaw
A State Library Transformed: Pennsylvania, 1878-1921
Bernadette A. Lear
Letters to Lucy Johnston: Addressing the Need for Literature on the Kansas Prairies
Diana Weaver
Depoliticizing the California State Library: The Political and Professional Transformation of James Gillis, 1899-1917
Debra Gold Hansen
"My Duty and My Pleasure": Alice S. Tyler's Reluctant Oversight of Carnegie Library Philanthropy in Iowa
Shana L. Stuart
"Interested in Public Libraries": J. O. Modisette and the Contributions of a Louisiana Library Commissioner
Florence M. Jumonville
Struggles Within: Lura G. Currier, the Mississippi Library Commission, and Library Services to African Americans
Karen Cook
Carma Zimmerman Leigh and the Diffusion of Cooperation through California Libraries, 1951-1972
Cindy Mediavilla

Volume 47, Number 4, 2012

Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics
Carol L. Tilley
Computer Science in French Universities: Early Entrants and Latecomers
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
The Performance of Information Flows in the Art of Stephen Willats
Sharon Irish
Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing: The Library Staff Magazine in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Alistair Black

Volume 47, Number 3, 2012

Modularity: An Interdisciplinary History of an Ordering Concept
Andrew L. Russell
The World as Database: On the Relation of Software Development, Query Methods, and Interpretative Independence
David Gugerli
Structuring Information Work: Ferranti and Martins Bank, 1952–1968
Ian Martin
The Contribution of Ægidius Fauteux and Edmond Desrochers to Quebec Librarianship in the Twentieth Century
Marcel Lajeunesse
From History to Library and Information Science: A Case Study of Archival Education at Wayne State University
Joseph M. Turrini

Volume 47, Number 2, 2012

Shaping Information History as an Intellectual Discipline
James W. Cortada
Normalizing Soviet Cybernetics
Benjamin Peters
Supermarket Savvy: The Everyday Information-Seeking Behavior of Grocery Shoppers
Sara L. Wimberley and Jessica L. McClean
The Politics of Ethnic Heritage Preservation in Canada: The Case of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario
Dominique Daniel
Why Encyclopedias Got Bigger . . . and Smaller
Jeff Loveland

Volume 47, Number 1, 2012

Editor’s Note: Changes to the Journal
William Aspray
Rabelais and the Abbey of Saint-Victor Revisited
Brett Bodemer
Collaboration in Art and in Science: Approaches to Attribution, Authorship, and Acknowledgment
Blaise Cronin
Playpens for Mind Children: Continuities in the Practice of Programming
Patricia Galloway
The Origin of College Libraries in North Carolina: A Social History, 1890–1920
Patrick Valentine

Essays & Notes

The Lambeth Palace Library: England’s First Public Library
Norman D. Stevens

Volume 46, Number 4, 2011

Rising from the Ashes: The Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Libraries in California
Cody White
The “Librarian’s Dream-Prince”: Carl Van Vechten and America’s Modernist Cultural Archives Industry
Kirsten MacLeod
Books and Reading in the Connecticut Western Reserve: The Small-Settlement Social Library, 1800–1860
Stuart A. Stiffler

Essays & Notes

The Literature of American Library History, 2008–2009
Edward A. Goedeken
Cultural Record Keepers: Serendipity in Adelphi University Libraries’ Special Collections: The “Emilie” Bookplate
Elayne Gardstein

Volume 46, Number 3, 2011

Introduction: The Continuing Depression
James V. Carmichael, Jr.
“Bricks without Straw”: Economic Hardship and Innovation in the Chicago Public Library during the Great Depression
Eric Novotny
Not Gone with the Wind: Libraries in Oklahoma in the 1930s
Tanya Ducker Finchum and Allen Finchum
The Great Depression and Its Impact on an Emerging Research Library: The University of North Carolina Library, 1929–1941
Eileen McGrath and Linda Jacobson
Memorial Day to Memorial Library: The South Chicago Branch Library as Cultural Terrain, 1937–1947
Joyce M. Latham

Volume 46, Number 2, 2011

A Good Social Work: Women’s Clubs, Libraries, and the Construction of a Secular Society in Utah, 1890-1920
Suzanne M. Stauffer
The British Library of Information in New York: A Tool of British Foreign Policy, 1919-1942
David A. Lincove

Essays & Notes

The Converging Histories and Futures of Libraries, Archives, and Museums as Seen through the Case of the Curious Collector Myron Eells
Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

The Fields of the Information Domain: A Symposium Exploring Their Historical Relationships and Research Opportunities

The Past May Be the Prologue: History’s Place in the Future of the Information Professions
Barbara L. Craig
The Boundaries of Preservation and Conservation Research
Michele V. Cloonan
The History of Information Science and Other Traditional Information Domains: Models for Future Research
William Aspray

Volume 46, Number 1, 2011

The French Revolution and the Materiality of the Modern Archive
Ralph Kingston
The Education of Alice M. Jordan and the Origins of the Boston Public Library Training School
Gale Eaton
"The persuasion of books": The Significance of Libraries in Colonial British Columbia
Heather Dean
Children's Voices in Librarians' Words, 1890-1930
Kate McDowell

Essays & Notes

A Comparison of the Progressive Era and the Depression Years: Societal Influences on Predictions of the Future of the Library, 1895-1940
Cultural Record Keepers: Legacy of a One-Man Book Maker
Randy Silverman and Cathleen A. Baker

Volume 45, Number 4, 2010

Spoilsmen and Daughters of the Republic: Political Interference in the Texas State Library during the Tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925
Pamela R. Bleisch
From Private Passion to Public Virtue: Thomas B. Lockwood and the Making of a Cultural Philanthropist, 1895-1935
Thomas A. Bolze
Records Management and the Decline of the English Archival Establishment, 1949-1956
Hans C. Rasmussen
The Mission of "Little Star": Juana Manrique de Lara's Contributions to Mexican Librarianship
Phillip Jones

Essays & Notes

Cultural Record Keepers: The Library of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria, Australia
Sue Reynolds

Volume 45, Number 3, 2010

Rebecca Rankin's Campaign for a Municipal Archives in New York, 1920–1952
Barry W. Seaver
E. W. B. Nicholson and the Bodleian Library Staff- Kalendar
Barbara B. Moran
The Genesis of Monastic Libraries
Herman A. Peterson

Essays & Notes

The Public Library in Utopia
Kevin J. Hayes
Our Historiographical Enterprise: Shifting Emphases and Directions
Edward A. Goedeken
Cultural Record Keepers: Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library
Emily Guss

Volume 45, Number 2, 2010

Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences, Part II
Issue Editors: Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Diane L. Barlow

Introduction
Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Diane L. Barlow
Madeline M. Henderson: From Chemical Information Science Pioneer to Architect of the New Information Science
Robert V. Williams
Martha E. Williams: Pioneer Information Scientist and Online Industry Guru
Linda C. Smith and Carol Tenopir
Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Weaving Value from the Past
Kathryn La Barre
An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman
Crystal Fulton

Volume 45, Number 1, 2010

The Library of Congress and the Center for the Book
Historical Essays in Honor of John Y. Cole
Issue Editor: Mary Niles Maack

John Y. Cole: Librarian, Bookman, and Scholar
Mary Niles Maack
The History and Historiography of the Library of Congress Histories of the Library of Congress
Jane Aikin
Properly Arranged and Properly Recorded: The Library of Congress Archives
Josephus Nelson

The Center for the Book

The National and International Roles of the Center for the Book
Guy Lamolinara
The Center for the Book and the History of the Book
Eleanor F. Shevlin and Eric N. Lindquist

The History of Books, Reading, and Publishing

"The Choice of Books": Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the Ideology of Reading, and Literary Collections at the Library of Congress in the 1870s
Carl Ostrowski
The Library of Congress in 1892: Ainsworth Spofford, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Michael Winship
"Wake Up and Read!" Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958
Jean Preer

International Perspectives

The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Global Exchange of Governmental Documents, 1834-1889
Nancy E. Gwinn
International Trends in Library History
Donald G. Davis, Jr.

Contributions and Legacy of John Y. Cole

Chronology and Bibliography of John Y. Cole

2009, 44:4

Writers Blocked: The Debate over Public Lending Right in the United States during the 1980s
Awarded the 2009 Justin Winsor Prize
Richard Lecomte
Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Geopolitics in the Development of the Singapore National Library
Brendan Luyt

Essays and Notes

The Literature of American Library History, 2006-2007
Edward A. Goedeken
Inventing a Model Library "a la francaise"
Anne-Marie Bertrand
Cultural Record Keepers: The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
Hans C. Rasmussen

2009, 44:3

Wheat and Chaff: Carl Roden, Abe Korman, and the Definitions of Intellectual Freedom in the Chicago Public Library
Joyce M. Latham
"How Can We Fail?" The Texas State Library's Traveling Libraries and Bookmobiles, 1916-1966
Jennifer Cummings

Essays & Notes

Enhancing the Cultural Record: Recent Trends and Issues in the History of Information Science and Technology
Robert V. Williams
Information Organization and the Mysterious Information User
Francis Miksa
Cultural Record Keepers: The English Book Donation, Chicago Public Library
Constance J. Gordon

2009, 44:2
Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences, 1900-1950

The Eye Prophetic: Julia Pettee
Christopher H. Walker and Ann Copeland
Margaret Cross Norton: Defining and Redefining Archives and the Archival Profession
Erin Lawrimore
Women Professionals in Documentation in France during the 1930s
Sylvie Fayet-Scribe Michael Buckland, Translator
María Moliner and Her Contribution to the History of Spain's Public Libraries
María R. Osuna Alarcón
Vivian Harsh, Adult Education, and the Library's Role as Community Center
Laura Burt
Highly Subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell
Malissa Ruffner and Emily J. Glenn

2009, 44:1
Personal Papers in History: Papers from the Third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives

The Genealogical Gaze: Family Identities and Family Archives in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Eric Ketelaar
"Kepe wysly youre wrytyngys": Margaret Paston's Fifteenth-Century Letters
Jennifer Douglas
Custodial History, Provenance, and the Description of Personal Records
Geoffrey Yeo
Sir John Soane: Rewriting a Life
Susan Palmer
Where Narratives Meet: Archival Description, Provenance, and Women's Diaries
Heather Beattie
Is it a Diary, Commonplace Book, Scrapbook, or Whatchamacallit?: Six Years' Exploration in New England's Manuscript Archives
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Communicating Community: Russian and Canadian Mennonite Correspondence, 1850-1900
Rachel Joanne Mills
The Dawn of the "Chaotic Account": Horatio Hale's Australia Notebook and the Development of Anthropologists' Field Notes
Tom Belton

2008, 43:4

"A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors": The First Purchase Collection of Union College Awarded the 2008 Justin Winsor Prize
Jeremy B. Dibbell
Recovery amid Destruction: Manoel da Maya and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Lúcia Lima Rodrigues and Russell Craig
A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915
James D. Neeley

Essays & Notes

The Literature of American Library History, 2003-2005
Edward A. Goedeken
Cultural Record Keepers: Littlefield Fund for Southern History, University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
David B. Gracy II

2008, 43:3

Tiberius and the Libraries: Public Book Collections and Library Buildings in the Early Roman Empire
George W. Houston
The Public Library as Instrument of Colonialism: the Case of the Netherlands East Indies
Elizabeth B. Fitzpatrick
"The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting": Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917-1919
Caroline Daniels
Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920-1945
Bart Dredge
Culture and the New Iraq: The Iraq National Library and Archive, "Imagined Community," and the Future of the Iraqi Nation
Julie Biando Edwards and Stephan P. Edwards
Cultural Record Keepers: Beth Budd Bentley Collection, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library
Leslie McGrath

2008, 43:2

Preparing for an Air Attack: Libraries and American Air Raid Defense during World War II
Brett Spencer
The Yellow Register Archives of Imperial Ming China
Wenxian Zhang
Western Canadiana at McGill University: The Formation of a Rare Book Collection
Peter F. McNally
The Ambiguous Origins of the Archival Principle of "Provenance"
Shelley Sweeney
Cultural Record Keepers: The Myron Eells Northwest History Collection, Whitman College
Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

2008, 43:1

Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election
Jean Preer (Awarded 2007 Justin Winsor Prize)
The Making of a Collection: Mesoamerican Manuscripts at Princeton University
Teresa T. Basler and David C. Wright
To "Build upon the Foundation": Charles Gayarré's Vision for the Louisiana State Library
Faye Phillips

Essays & Notes

Wishing They Were There: Old Postcards and Library History
Bernadette A. Lear
Cultural Record Keepers: Bruce Rogers Book Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Amanda C. Grossman and Sammie L. Morris

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