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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 des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
The author of "Picatrix" was likely a highly educated and intellectually versatile scholar, deeply rooted in the Arabic-speaking world of the 11th century. He was well-versed in a variety of disciplines, including astrology, alchemy, and philosophy, drawing on Greek, Persian, and Indian sources. As a participant in the Islamic Golden Age's rich scholarly tradition, he likely had access to extensive libraries and intellectual circles. His work suggests a blend of academic knowledge and practical application, indicating both theoretical understanding and hands-on experience in astrological and magical practices.
