Libraries without borders: new directions in library history

Abstract

"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.

Contents

Foreword : "The Hill We Climb" : towards equity and inclusion in library and information science / Renate L. Chancellor -- Introduction -- Part I. Community Formation and Centers of Literacy -- 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 -- 3. 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 / Tom 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.