The Academic Library in the United States: Historical Perspectives

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2022
Author	Editor: Mark L. McCallon Editor: John Mark Tucker
Language	English
Number of Pages	282 pp.
Publisher	McFarland and Company
City	Jefferson, NC
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Region	United States
Library Type	Academic Libraries
Demographics	African-Americans
Chronological Period	17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999 21st century
ISBN	9780786495870
Annotation	Contents: From the bequest of John Harvard to the dream of Alexandria: historiography of the academic library in the United States, 1638-2015 / Mark L. McCallon and John Mark Tucker Introductory essays The development of the academic library in Amercan higher education and the role of the academic librarian / Beverly P. Lynch Perceptions of the academic library: midwestern college libraries as they have been depicted in college histories / John Caldwell Book collections and classical training, 1638-1799 Books across the Atlantic / Eric Glasgow Libraries in America to 1850: college libraries / Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris Liberal arts colleges and professional education, 1800-1875 The American college library, 1800-1860 / Howard Clayton Formation of the university, 1876-1919 The transformation of American scholarship, 1875-1917 / Arthur E. Bestor, Jr. Research libraries, the ideology of reading, and scholarly communication, 1876-1900 / Wayne A. Wiegand Experimentation and redefinition, 1920-1945 Private dominance in Black academic libraries, 1916-1938 / James E. Hooper Toward a new cultural design: the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter Expansion, science, and technology, 1946-1988 The influence of computer technology on academic library buildings: a slice of recent history / Philip D. Leighton and David C. Weber Diversity and retrenchment, 1946-1988 In the eye of the storm: academic libraries in the sixties / Fay M. Blake ACRL's fiftieth anniversary: for reflection, for celebration, and for anticipation / Edward G. Holley Digital expansion, 1989-2015 Context and background (on the transformation of scholarly communication) / Rikk Mulligan Historiographical futures Historiographical futures for library history: conceptual observations for future historians / Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Further reading The academic library in the United States: selected historical readings / Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel, Mark L. McCallon, and John Mark Tucker