Reclaiming the American Library Past

Writing the Women in
Herausgeber: Hildenbrand, Suzanne

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781567502343
• ISBN-10: 1567502342
• Artikelnr.: 22539387

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Hildenbrand

Inhaltsangabe

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