The 2021 Chinese translation of Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library (Oxford University Press, 2015), authored by Wayne A. Wiegand (F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University), has been named one of the National Library of China Publishing House’s “Ten Best Books of 2021”!
Check out CSPAN’s video below for a discussion by Dr. Wiegand on his book…
Illustration from “La-Sevivon” (“To the Dreidel.” African and Middle Eastern Division. It was the late fall of 1917 in Moscow, the Bolshevik Revolution was seizing printing presses and a wealthy young Jewish woman was on the run. Her name was Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz. She was 24. She carried a revolutionary text of her own –…
The Russian Revolution and the Jewish Children’s Book Publisher — Library of Congress Blog
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Greetings,
Library History Round Table’s scholarly journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS) is migrating to a new platform for online issues, the Scholarly Publishing Collective. Going forward, all issues of the journal will appear on our Scholarly Publishing Collective site.
At the present time, you can preview the new site AND access all content free. As part of the site’s initial launch and testing, issues of LCHS will be open access until March 31. After that date, access will revert to the usual subscription terms. Members of LHRT will continue to receive free access (online and print) as part of their round table membership, so if you’re not currently an ALA/LHRT member, now is a great time to join!
We will miss the affiliation we had with JSTOR’s current scholarship program, which JSTOR discontinued in 2021. But there’s a lot to like about our new site with the Scholarly Publishing Collective. It is easy to navigate, and the pages look good even when there is a lot of information! We expect authors and readers will like to see the number of page views and article downloads embedded in the article page, as well as links to Google Scholar.
We welcome your thoughts, questions, and concerns, especially concerning accessibility, functionality, and desired enhancements. Much like JSTOR, there will be aspects of the new platform that won’t be under our control, but we can and will advocate for improvements as the site launches.
Eric Novotny and Bernadette Lear
Editors, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society
Unfortunately, according to the ALA, the United States is seeing an almost unprecedented number of book challenges. However, as this article points out, this is not unique to the US. Here is a look at book censorship beyond the United States.
Comics are entrances to the world of superheroes–and politics. Enjoy this excellent paper from S. Amanda Shelton about the history of political comic books in our “Themes Through the Ages” column!:
For our February 2022 Member Spotlight, we are pleased to feature Regina Carra, Rapaport Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum.