The rich potential of American public school library history: Research needs and opportunities for historians of education and librarianship

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-74

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DOI: 10.1353/lac.2007.0019     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barbara Holton et al., The Status of Public and Private School Libraries in the United States, 1999-2000, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004 (cited 7 November 2005). Available from http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/ school.asp.
2. See, for example, Donald G. Davis, Jr., and John Mark Tucker, eds., American Library History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Literature (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1989);
3. Arthur P. Young, American Library History: A Bibliography of Dissertations and Master's Theses, 3rd ed. rev. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988);
4. and Christine Jenkins, "A History of Youth Services Librarianship: A Review of the Research Literature," in Library History Research in America: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Library History Round Table, ed. Andrew B. Wertheimer and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2000), 102-40.
5. Delia Neuman, "Research in School Library Media for the Next Decade: Polishing the Diamond," Library Trends 51 (Spring 2003): 503-24.
6. A notable exception is Christine Jenkins, "The Strength of the Inconspicuous: Youth Services Librarians, the American Library Association, and Intellectual Freedom for the Young, 1939-1955," Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
7. I discuss these in more depth in "The Structure of Librarianship: Essay on an Information Profession," Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science 24 (April 1999): 17-37.
8. Paul Mattingly writes convincingly about the role "character" played in educational history. See his Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century (New York: New York University Press, 1975).
9. American Association of School Librarians, Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs (Chicago: American Library Association, 1988).
10. See also American Association of School Librarians, Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (Chicago: American Library Association, 1998).
11. I discuss this literature in "Theoretical Foundations for Analyzing Print Culture as Agency and Practice in a Diverse Modern America," in Print Culture in a Diverse America, ed. James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 1-13.
12. Stephen D. Krashen, The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1993). A second edition was published in 2004.
13. For an example of traditional attitudes toward series fiction see M. E. S. Root, "Not to Be Circulated," Wilson Bulletin 3 (January 1929): 446. A cursory glance at school library literature in the past seventy-five years demonstrates that these attitudes have not significantly shifted.
14. Jeremy Rifkin, Age of Access: How the Shift from Ownership to Access Is Transforming Modern Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2000).
15. See also John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
16. Information Power (1998), vii.
17. For citations to literature that documents school library discourse see Information Power (1988), 132-35.
18. Missing from this discourse are works such as Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: Basic Books, 1985);
19. Jane M. Healy, Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990);
20. and Christopher Winch, The Philosophy of Human Learning (New York: Routledge, 1998).
21. See Elizabeth Long, Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) for a solid analysis of the social nature of reading.
22. National Endowment for the Arts, Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004).
23. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989).
24. See also Thomas Markus, Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types (New York: Routledge, 1993)
25. and Stephen Petrina, "Getting a Purchase on 'The School of Tomorrow' and Its Constituent Commodities: Histories and Historiographies of Technologies," History of Education Quarterly 42 (Spring 2002): 75-111.
26. David Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 176.
27. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983).
28. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
29. The influence that architecture and room arrangement had on this stereotype is explored more thoroughly in Abigail Van Slyck, Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
30. This story is told in Toni Samek, Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2001), 93-95. Berman's book was ultimately published.
31. See Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tracton the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1971).
32. For a brief but critical glimpse of conflict between the SHSLC and the Catholic Library Association see Ralph D. Wagner, "Not Recommended: A List for Catholic High School Libraries, 1942," Libraries & Culture 30 (Spring 1995): 170-98.
33. See also Jenkins, "Strength of the Inconspicuous," chap. 4.
34. Senior History School Library Catalog (White Plains, N.Y: H. W. Wilson Co., 1968),v-vii.
35. See Jenkins, "The History of Youth Services Librarianship," 103-40.
36. Marjorie Fiske, Book Selection and Censorship: A Study of School and Public Libraries in California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959).
37. The classic text is Lucile F. Fargo, The Library in the School (Chicago: American Library Association, 1930).
38. See also Phyllis Van Orden, The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices, and Information Sources, 2nd ed. (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1995). This pattern of ignoring scholarship that runs contrary to the profession's conventional thinking is also evident in Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, Intellectual Freedom Manual, 6th ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2002), which seldom includes among its bibliographical citations reference to any work that questions OIF actions.
39. These distinctions trace back to Lester Asheim, "Not Censorship but Selection," Wilson Library Bulletin 58 (January 1952): 63-67.
40. Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983).
41. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Random House, Inc., 1978).