Reclaiming the American library past : writing the women in

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Reclaiming the American library past : writing the women in

Suzanne Hildenbrand, editor

(Information management, policy, and services / Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon, editors)

Ablex Pub., c1996

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  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Volume

: cloth ISBN 9781567502336

Description

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, ^IReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In^R. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for subsequent scholars to ponder and pursue. -^IHistory of Education Quarterly ^RThe essays in this book contribute along several dimensions to the new scholarship on a profession and public service of vital importance for well over a century to American literacy, culture and invention. Their authors add to the individual and collective biographies of women who have founded and administered diverse institutions and taught succeeding generations of librarians. The worksites of influential women such as Anne Carroll Moore, Josephine Rathbone, and Grace Hebard, like the nameless paid and volunteer staff who have served as unrecognized catalogers and children's librarians, have varied. They range from the pioneering libraries and library schools of the settled East- including Brooklyn and the Harlem, Times Square, and Morningside Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan- the historically Black Howard University to the numberless small towns of the West. They include the raw A&M colleges of Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, and similarly neglected centers of local and regional enlightenment.

Table of Contents

  • Preface From the Politics of Library History to the History of Library Politics PART ONE: PERSONALITIES AND PROGRAMS African-American Historical Continuity: Jean Blackwell Hutson and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture College, Community and Librarianship: Women Librarians at the Western Landgrant Colleges Adelaide Hasse: The New Woman as Librarian Julia Brown Asplund and New Mexico Library Service Librarian, Literary Detective and Scholar: Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford Dorothy Porter Wesley: Bibliographer, Curator, and Scholar Anne Carroll Moore: "I Have Spun Out a Long Thread" PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES "You Don't Have to Pay Librarians" "Since So Many of Today's Librarians Are Women...
  • " Women and Intellectual Freedom in U.S. Librarianship, 1890-1990 Pratt Institute Library School: The Perils of Professionalism Women's Unpaid Work in Libraries: Change and Continuity Cited Authors Subject Index About the Contributors
Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9781567502343

Description

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, ^IReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In^R. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for subsequent scholars to ponder and pursue. -^IHistory of Education Quarterly ^RThe essays in this book contribute along several dimensions to the new scholarship on a profession and public service of vital importance for well over a century to American literacy, culture and invention. Their authors add to the individual and collective biographies of women who have founded and administered diverse institutions and taught succeeding generations of librarians. The worksites of influential women such as Anne Carroll Moore, Josephine Rathbone, and Grace Hebard, like the nameless paid and volunteer staff who have served as unrecognized catalogers and children's librarians, have varied. They range from the pioneering libraries and library schools of the settled East- including Brooklyn and the Harlem, Times Square, and Morningside Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan- the historically Black Howard University to the numberless small towns of the West. They include the raw A&M colleges of Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, and similarly neglected centers of local and regional enlightenment.

Table of Contents

  • Preface From the Politics of Library History to the History of Library Politics PART ONE: PERSONALITIES AND PROGRAMS African-American Historical Continuity: Jean Blackwell Hutson and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture College, Community and Librarianship: Women Librarians at the Western Landgrant Colleges Adelaide Hasse: The New Woman as Librarian Julia Brown Asplund and New Mexico Library Service Librarian, Literary Detective and Scholar: Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford Dorothy Porter Wesley: Bibliographer, Curator, and Scholar Anne Carroll Moore: "I Have Spun Out a Long Thread" PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES "You Don't Have to Pay Librarians" "Since So Many of Today's Librarians Are Women. . .
  • " Women and Intellectual Freedom in U.S. Librarianship, 1890-1990 Pratt Institute Library School: The Perils of Professionalism Women's Unpaid Work in Libraries: Change and Continuity Cited Authors Subject Index About the Contributors

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