Libraries -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Muzeul Brukenthal.
Erdélyi Múzeum Egylet.
Biblioteca "Astra" Sibiu.
Abstract:
In nineteenth-century Transylvania (now in Romania but then a province of Hungary) Germans, Hungarians, and Romanians all attributed special importance to research collections in the creation of their political nations. This study traces the development of the most important repositories of the respective nations: the Germans' Brukenthal Museum, the Hungarians' Transylvanian Museum Society, and the Romanians' Astra. These institutions arose as hybrid museum-libraries and even included archives. Despite this common conception, they developed differently due to the nature of their constituencies, the growing professionalization of libraries, museums, and archives, and political change within Hungary and Romania.
African Americans and libraries -- Southern States -- History.
Public libraries -- Southern States -- History.
Abstract:
The intent of this article is to present an overview and analysis of the development of public libraries for African Americans in the South during the era of de jure segregation and through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Written from the perspective of an educational historian, the essay seeks to discern salient continuities and discontinuities in the growth and desegregation of both public libraries and public schools in the South and within this broadened context to push both fields beyond the topical blinders that have too often characterized their separate historical investigations.
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916.
Missionaries -- China -- History.
Jing shi da xue tang (Beijing, China)
Abstract:
This article examines the crucial but hitherto largely neglected contributions made by Western missionaries to Chinese academic librarianship in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It begins by analyzing how early missionaries unintentionally laid the groundwork for library reform while pursuing their two grand projects aimed at promoting Western culture. Next, the article demonstrates how the eminent missionary William A. P. Martin's efforts led to the establishment of China's first prototype of the modern library and how he subsequently participated in the building of China's first modern academic library. This in-depth case study of Martin's efforts aptly underscores the crucial roles played by Western missionaries in Chinese modern library reform in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In August 2002 a massive flood struck the Czech capital city of Prague, inundating the collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic and the Prague Municipal Library. The librarians from these institutions and others in the Czech Republic had to respond quickly during a natural disaster. Despite the chaos and lack of preparation, Czech librarians and archivists were able to send a significant percentage of their flooded collections to be frozen, thus staving off immediate destruction of these historic collections by water or mold. Once the materials were frozen, librarians had to decide the best way to thaw and disinfect the items so that these materials could be used again. Influenced partly by cost, Czech librarians chose an experimental method over standard methods such as vacuum packing or vacuum freeze drying to treat the bulk of the frozen library materials. This essay traces the preservation decisions that librarians at two institutions, the National Library and the Prague Municipal Library, made during and after the flood to save their unique and historical collections.
De la biblioteca particular a la biblioteca pública: libros, lectores y pensamiento bibliotecario en los orígenes de la biblioteca pública de Buenos Aires, 1779-1812 (review) [Access article in HTML][Access article in PDF] Subject Headings:
Parada, Alejandro E. De la biblioteca particular a la biblioteca pública: libros, lectores y pensamiento bibliotecario en los orígenes de la Biblioteca Pública de Buenos Aires, 1779-1812.
A Library-Keeper's Business: Essays by Roger E. Stoddard, and: RES Gestae, Libri Manent: An Exhibition and Symposium Celebrating the Career of Roger E. Stoddard (review) [Access article in HTML][Access article in PDF] Subject Headings:
Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot) Library-keeper's business.
Rothkopf, Carol Zeman, ed.
Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot) Res gestae, libri manent: an exhibition and symposium celebrating the career of Roger E. Stoddard.
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