Teaching Library History: Engaging the Academic Community

The author provides an overview of an upper-level undergraduate course on library history he has created and taught at a small Bible college. He reviews the lessons learned from the experience as well as the opportunities this course provided for information literacy instruction

Maine Library History

From the earliest small private and university libraries of the 1700s to today’s high-speed Internet-connected institutions, the history of Maine’s libraries mirrors the development of the state and provides a sense of the concerns people had for access to information and education. Melora Norman describes the development of various kinds of libraries in Maine and the opportunities and challenges they have faced over time. She notes that the 20th century was a time of increasing professionalization and standardization in Maine’s libraries. During the late 1990s through the present, libraries have been changing dramatically as they shift from a focus on print, reference, and preservation to digital knowledge, discovery, and instruction

James White Library History

A collection of documents detailing early operations in the James White Library.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pda/1014/thumbnail.jp

Louis Shores and Library History

Together with Wayne Shirley, Louis Shores began the American Library History Round Table in 1947. With the addition of N. Orwin Rush and John David Marshall, they dominated its proceedings for the first two decades. When Shores and Shirley turned over the control of the Round Table to Shore's appointed successor, Michael H. Harris, and his democratically elected successors in 1972, the four founders left an organization that, though small, was popular and had focused the agenda of library history

Old Dominion University Library: History

Table of Contents: BEGINNINGS, 1930-1958 ... 5Staffing ... 7Collections ... 9Anticipation of a New Building ... 11 HUGHES LIBRARY, 1958-1976 ... 15Library Collections -16Library Cooperation ... 19Status of Librarians ... 21Facilities ... 24 RECENT TIMES, 1976-1998 … 27Library Automation … 27Library Collections ... 29Library Services ... 31Cooperative Programs ... 33Status of Librarians ... 34Facilities ... 36 PERRY LIBRARY, 1998-- ... 39Facilities … 39Library Collections ... 40Automation ... 41Services ... 42Cooperative Programs ... 42 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ... 43SELECTED REFERENCES ... 45NAME INDEX … 4

Darling Marine Center Library History

This is a history of the library at the Darling Marine Center. The Louise Dean Library is a branch of the University of Maine\u27s Fogler Library. It began as four shelves of books in the canning closet of Mr. Darling\u27s farmhouse in 1966. The library now holds over 10,000 marine science books and 8,000 bound periodical books. It houses hundreds of print serials, many of which are unique state holdings that are not available electronically. The library has 5 work station computers and wireless Internet providing access to thousands of current UM electronic science journal subscriptions. It also has a legacy Reprint Collection and a legacy Sea Grant Collection, both indexed, as well as a Leisure Reading Exchange for visitors and staff

Friends of the Library History

A history of the Friends of the Library at the University of Mississippi from its origins in 1940 through 2018

Old Dominion University Library: History

A history of the library at Old Dominion University, written by Jean A. Major, University Librarian 1992-2002.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/oduhistory-bookshelf/1000/thumbnail.jp

Sense-Making and Library History

A few days before leaving for Philadelphia I was asked to read over a manuscript written by Don Davis, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and one of his doctoral students at Texas, Jon Aho, in which they were kind enough to mention my name, identifying me as a "library historian." I had never really thought of myself as a library historian and am really not sure of exactly what that means—I presume someone who does histories of libraries as opposed to real history. I am not a real historian. I was an English major. The only official course work I have had in history consists of a course taken as an undergraduate at the University of Florida (UF)—a survey of English history—taught by an elderly gentleman who was a holdover from the days before 1947 when UF was a male school. His entire series of lectures quickly degenerated into a series of dirty jokes about Henry VIII, which he told while carefully watching the reactions of the women in the class. This experience, plus a short course in historical methods taken at the insistence of my major professor at Florida State University (FSU) during my doctoral work there, of which I can remember nothing, accounts for my entire academic background in history

Library History: Four texts and a website

Essay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM310 - Independent Study, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. This essay stands as a report of a few months of an independent study conducted by the author about library history. The theme was explored both as a personal interest motivated by the mentions of library history during classes of Library and Information Science at City, University of London, and also as a felt need to investigate library history more deeply, as I became involved in developing oral history and narratives about London’s public libraries for the Layers of London project, a website being built by the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London. Here, I attempt to recapitulate my study by telling a brief story about library history from ‘four texts and a website’. Evidently, the website is Layers of London. The four texts correspond to four works of librarians, historians, and academics investigating library history, not necessarily because they are seminal, but because they in some way represent important aspects of the field and introduce significant issues. In that sense, this essay is structured in five short sections, each corresponding to one of these four texts, and the last one referring to Layers of London, which serves also as a concluding section