What we wrote about and who we were: Historical writings in JLH/L & C, 1966-2000

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 250-265

  Goedeken, Edward A ^a  

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EID: 33744992108     PISSN: 19324855     EISSN: 19329555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lac.2003.0045     Document Type: Article

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1. I performed a similar analysis of the Library History Seminars. See "The Library Historian's Field of Dreams: A Profile of the First Nine Seminars," Libraries & Culture 35 (winter 2000): 161-72.
2. For other attempts at investigating specific historical journals, see Margaret F. Stieg, "The Emergence of the English Historical Review" Library Quarterly 46 (April 1976): 119-36;
3. Norris Hundly Jr., "What Manner of Monument: The Pacific Historical Review and the Profession," Pacific Historical Review 65 (February 1996): 1-26;
4. Anne Marie Corrigan, "The Canadian Historical Review: A Case Study," Serials Librarian 26, nos. 3-4 (1995): 125-31;
5. Lee Beier, "Innovation and Tradition on the Cutting Edge: Past and Present, 1952-1994," Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 24 (summer 1998): 329-50;
6. and Marion Hirsch, "The Use of Manuscripts and Archives in Southern History: A Citation Study of Recent Articles from Bibliographies in the Journal of Southern History," master's thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1991.
7. A recent example of a similar type of investigation can be found in Xue-Ming Bao, "An Analysis of the Research Areas of the Articles Published in C&RL and JAL between 1990 and 1999," College & Research Libraries 61 (November 2000): 536-44.
8. For an example of a similar analysis for another type of library science publication, see Janet A. Knight, "The Journal of Government Information: An Exploratory Analysis to Determine if Trends and Changes in the Government Printing Industry Are Reflected in JGI," Journal of Government Information 28 (July-August 2001): 395-424.
9. For a history of JLH/L&C, see Jon Arvid Aho and Donald G. Davis Jr., "Advancing the Scholarship of Library History: The Role of the Journal of Library History and Libraries & Culture," Libraries & Culture (winter 2000): 173-91.
10. For current thinking on the direction of American library history, see Donald G. Davis Jr. and Jon Arvid Aho, "Whither Library History? A Critical Essay on Black's Model for the Future of Library History, with Some Additional Options," Library History 17 (March 2001): 21-37.
11. The Davis-Aho essay was in response to the article by Alistair Black, "Information and Modernity: The History of Information and the Ellipse of Library History," Library History 14 (May 1998): 39-45.
12. Wayne Wiegand contributes two timely assessments with "American Library History Literature, 1947-1997: Theoretical Perspectives?" Libraries & Culture 35 (winter 2000): 4-34,
13. and "Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots: What the Past Tells Us about the Present; Reflections on the Twentieth-Century History of American Librarianship," Library Quarterly 69 (January 1999): 1-32.
14. For more on the development of historical journals, see Margaret F. Stieg, The Origin and Development of Scholarly Historical Periodicals (University: University of Alabama Press, 1986).
15. On the journal as a vehicle for scholarly communication, see Charles B. Osburn, "The Place of the Journal in the Scholarly Communications System," Library Resources and Technical Services 28 (October 1984): 315-24.
16. A more recent treatment of the same topic can be found in Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, "Using and Reading Scholarly Literature," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 34 (1999): 423-77.
17. For a useful overview of bibliometric analysis of historical scholarship, see Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel, "Historical Bibliometrics: Its Purpose and Significance to the History of Disciplines," Libraries & Culture 34 (fall 1999): 380-88.
18. For a recent review of the literature relating to bibliometrics as a research tool, see Farideh Osareh, "Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis and Co-Citation Analysis: A Review of Literature I," Libri 46 (September 1996): 149-58.
19. The larger bibliometric picture is also treated by Christine L. Borgman and Jonathan Furner, "Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36 (2002): 3-72.
20. Donald G. Davis Jr., "Editorial," Journal of Library History 12 (winter 1977): 2.
21. Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel, "Authorship, Gender, and Institutional Affiliation in Library History: The Case of Libraries & Culture," Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 11, no. 1 (1991): 49-54.
22. Additionally, Hérubel and I reviewed the journals cited in the JLH/L&C biennial review essays in 'Journals Publishing American Library History: A Research Note," Libraries & Culture 29 (spring 1994): 205-9.
23. Hérubel, "Authorship," 52.
24. Richard L. Hart, "Co-Authorship in the Academic Library Literature: A Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors," Journal of Academic Librarianship 26 (September 2000): 341.
25. 2: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001).
26. Another look at collaboration in the literature of academic librarianship can be found in Alice Harrison Bahr and Mickey Zemon, "Collaborative Authorship in the Journal Literature: Perspectives for Academic Librarians Who Wish to Publish," College & Research Libraries 61 (September 2000): 410-19.
27. Donald O. Case has delved into the research habits of historians in "The Collection and Use of Information by Some American Historians: A Study of Motives and Methods," Library Quarterly 61 (January 1991): 61-82.
28. See also Margaret F. Stieg, "The Information of [sic] Needs of Historians," College & Research Libraries 42 (November 1981): 549-60;
29. and Matthew B. Gilmore and Donald O. Case, "Historians, Books, Computers, and the Library," Library Trends 40 (spring 1992): 667-86.
30. The broader context of scholarly practices of library and information science professionals is assessed in Ronald R. Powell, Lynda M. Baker, and Joseph J. Mika, "Library and Information Science Practitioners and Research," Library & Information Science Research 24, no. 1 (2002): 49-72.
31. A broader view of the role of disciplinary literature in scholarship can be found in Jack Andersen, "The Role of Subject Literature in Scholarly Communication: An Interpretation Based on Social Epistemology," Journal of Documentation 54, no. 4 (2002): 463-81.
32. Hérubel, "Authorship," 53.
33. A large literature has evolved discussing the publication patterns of academic librarians that often includes data on institutional affiliation. John M. Budd and Charles A. Seavey have published a pair of significant studies that lay the groundwork for much of the subsequent work that has appeared over the past several years: "Characteristics of Journal Authorship by Academic Librarians," College & Research Libraries 51 (September 1990): 463-70;
34. and "Productivity of U.S. Library and Information Science Faculty: The Hayes Study Revisited," Library Quarterly 66 (January 1996): 1-20.
35. and Ann C. Weller, Julie M. Hurd, and Stephen E. Wiberley Jr., "Publication Patterns of U.S. Academic Librarians from 1993 to 1997," College & Research Libraries 60 (July 1999): 352-62.