Libraries without borders : new directions in library history

9780838936634

xxiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

New directions in library history

"This volume has its origins in Library History Seminar XIV, held in June 2021"--Page ix
Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1: Community Formation and Centers of Literacy
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
"Thank You, Father, For Your Grand Cooperation": Outreach and the Founding of the Marian Library / Henry Handley
Part II: Library Outreach Beyond Borders
Uncharted Waters: a History of the Bibliographic Instruction Movement and Its Administrative Context / Kelly Hangauer
Part III: Boundary-Setting and Conflicts in Library History
Better Late than Never: Stories of Long Overdue Books / John DeLooper
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
Getting Started: Research in the History of American Libraries / Thomas Glynn
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

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ALA Editions (Firm), publisher
Chancellor, Renate, 1965- writer of foreword
Knowlton, Steven A. (Steven Anthony), 1971- editor
Pozzi, Ellen M., 1958- editor
Sly, Jordan S., 1985- editor
Spunaugle, Emily D., 1990- editor