Libraries & culture
Subtitle: historical essays honoring the legacy of Donald G. Davis, Jr.
By: edited by Cheryl Knott Malone, Hermina G.B. Anghelescu, John Mark Tucker.
Contributors: Malone, Cheryl Knott, 1954-; Anghelescu, Hermina G. B.; Tucker, John Mark.; Davis, Donald G.
Publisher: Library of Congress, Center for the Book
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780844411552
Subjects: Libraries -- History.; Libraries -- United States -- History.; Libraries and society -- History.; Libraries and society -- United States -- History.; Libraries -- Historiography.
Other titles: Libraries and culture; Historical essays honoring the legacy of Donald G. Davis Jr.; Libraries & culture.
Notes: Originally published as a special issue of Libraries & culture (v. 40, no. 3, summer 2005)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: History in the library and information science curriculum : outline of a debate / Christine Pawley; value: Early American imprint bibliography and its stories : an introductory course in bibliographical civics / Donald W. Krummel; value: Assessing what we wrote : a review of the Libraries & culture literature reviews, 1967-2002 / Edward A. Goedeken; value: Quantifying the "goodness" of library history research : a bibliometric study of The journal of library history/Libraries & culture / Andrew B. Wertheimer; value: In union there is strength : the Farmers' Institute and the Western Literary Union Library / David M. Hovde and John W. Fritch; value: Reading Hilda's home : gender, print culture, and the dissemination of utopian thought in late-nineteenth-century America / Joanne E. Passet; value: Southern librarianship and the culture of resentment / James V. Carmichael, Jr.; value: Changing the geography of reading in a southern border state : the Rosenwald Fund and the WPA in Oklahoma / Louise S. Robbins; value: Collecting contested titles : the experience of five small public libraries in the rural midwest, 1893-1956 / Wayne Wiegand; value: The Library of Congress becomes a world library, 1815-2005 / John Y. Cole; value: American bookwomen in Paris during the 1920s / Mary Niles Maack; value: The library as clinic : a Foucauldian interpretation of British public library attitudes to social and physical disease, ca. 1850-1950 / Alistair Black; value: European integration : are Romanian libraries ready? / Hermina G.B. Anghelescu; value: From Libraries & culture to the Bibliotèque nationale / Bette W. Oliver; value: Fides et historia : Christian sources for the professional contributions of Donald G. Davis, Jr. / John Mark Tucker; value: Chronology and bibliography of Donald G. Davis, Jr; value: The bookplates / Judith Overmeier.