590HF

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Contents 1 History and Foundation of Library and Information Science 2 Comments 3 Readings 3.1 Unit 1: General Historical Background – Information from The Printing Press to the Telegraph 3.2 Unit 2: Historical Foundations of Library Service in The Us –the Example of the Public Library 3.3 Unit 3: The Professionalization of Librarianship; documentation and the Emergence of Information Science 3.4 Unit 4: Theorizing Library and Information Science 3.5 Unit 5: Historiographical Matters

[edit] History and Foundation of Library and Information Science

Last Taught

Fall 2004

Instructor(s)

Professor Boyd Rayward

Has Taken

Timnah Card

Minjie Chen

Nataliya Duzhyk

Ingbert Floyd

Christa Hardy

Sarah Park

Cindy Welch

Xin Xiang

Oksana Zavalina

[edit] Comments

I have mixed feelings about this class. It is a required class for all new Ph.D. students along with 590DRM, Doctoral Research Methods, offered in the Spring semester. Together, they are designed to replace the CORE reading list, but I do not feel that this class was adequate to the task. When talking with more advanced PhD Students like Cameron about my interests, they are able to quote me relevant articles about nearly any topic I bring up, and nearly all of them come from the old CORE reading list. And they have a conception of the field of LIS which I am sorely lacking. As individuals we come into the department knowledgeable about our domain specific interests, knowledge developed from our past studies and past work experience. But the field of LIS is so broad that the vast majority of us have no conception of what information is contained in the parts of the field which we know nothing about. The CORE reading list served as a unifying backbone for the Department, giving us a shared understanding of the different areas of LIS, and a common language which we could use to talk about these different areas. Information science people learned about what librarians do (unfortunately I can't elaborate because I still don't really know), and librarians learned about what the IS people do (metadata, usability, information retrieval, etc.). Despite the CORE list, there still was a sharp split in the department between librarians and IS, how much stronger will the split be now?

Maybe the solution to this problem is that 501 should be split into two semesters, be slightly more comprehensive in scope (see some of the comments about 501), and required for all Ph.D. students. This may help deal with some of the problems the Masters students face with information overload as well. It could not hurt to have Ph.D. students available to explain why they find the information in the class relevant or interesting.

The major good sides of 590HF were:

1. Some of the readings were absolutely fascinating, and really provoked thought about what LIS is all about, where it has been, and where it is in the process of going.
2. It gave a strong historical perspective on the field, and on intellectual development in general. This was important for many reasons, including sharply illuminating how silly some of the constantly recurring debates on new technology are (will it lead to a new utopia or will it destroy the world), the way technological changes do revolutionize society, and why it is important to look at the historical accomplishments and domain expertise in a field before bringing in technology experts who are domain-ignorant to apply a technological panacea.

The problems were:

1. There were way too many readings to complete, and it was very difficult for most of the students to relate the readings to their interests, or their conception of the field. By having so many readings, we had to read fast, instead of reading in depth, and many of readings which were assigned were largely worthless if not read in depth. This was an even more significant difficulty for the non-native english speakers in the class.
2. The readings did not introduce hugely important concepts in the field (such as metadata) in a framework which would allow us to understand them both from the historical perspective and from a modern perspective. This made it very difficult for us to understand the value of the historical perspective, which was the whole point of how the class was structured.
3. The last 50 years of librarianship were not covered at all, which made it nearly impossible for us to connect the historical threads through to the modern day. The idea that our class projects could help us make those connections proved to be unfounded, because the class projects reflected individual student interests as opposed to teaching us everything we needed to know to understand the big picture of the recent evolution of the field.

On the whole, I enjoyed taking the class very much, and was very intellectually stimulated. But as an introdution to the field of LIS I do not think the class was satisfactory.

-Ingbert

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It's very nice talking to peer students from all over the world.

[edit] Readings

[edit] Unit 1: General Historical Background – Information from The Printing Press to the Telegraph

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1983: (LIS 686.209 Ei84p)

• Ch. 3: Some feature of Print Culture

Roger Chartier. The order of Books: Readers Authors and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and eighteenth Centuries, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. (RareBks and LIS025.3094 C385O)

• Ch. 3. Libraries without Walls”

Peter Burke, A social history of knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot. Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2 000. (Ed 306.422903B917s )

• Ch. 3: Establishing knowledge: institutions old and new;
• Ch. 4: Locating Knowledge: centres and periphery;
• Ch. 5: Classifying knowledge: curricula, libraries and encyclopaedias

Daniel R, Headrick, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and revolution, 1700-1850, Oxford: OUP, 2000 (LIS306.42H344w)

• Preface;
• Ch.1: Information and its History;
• Ch. 2: Storing of information : Dictionaries and encyclopedias;
• Ch. 6: Communicating information: postal and telegraphic systems;
• Ch. 7: Information ages: past and present

Edward Miller, That Noble Cabinet: a history of the British museum. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1974 (StacksO27.242B862MI)

• Ch.1: The beginnings
• Ch. 2: The Foundation
• Ch. 3: the Early Years 1759-1799
• Ch. 4. A Time of growth and Change

P.R. Harris, A history of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973.London : British Library, 1998. (LIS027.541 H243h)

• Introduction
• Ch. 1: the Eighteenth Century
• Ch. II: Planta as Principal Librarian- the beginning of Change, 1799-1827

Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers. New York: Walker and Co., 1998. (LIS 384.109 St24v) Preface

• Ch. 1: The Mother of all networks
• Ch. 4: the Thrill electric
• Ch. 5: Wiring the World
• Ch. 12: the Legacy of the telegraph.

W. Boyd Rayward, “Some Schemes for Restructuring and Mobilising Information in Documents: a historical perspective,” Information Processing and Management 30(1994):163-175 (can be downloaded through ejournals)

[edit] Unit 2: Historical Foundations of Library Service in The Us –the Example of the Public Library

Jesse H Shera, Foundation of the Public Library: the origin of he public library movement in New England, 1629-1855. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.(LISO27.21S551F1949)

• Introduction
• Ch. VI: The beginnings of the public library
• Ch. VII: Causal factors in the public library development

Alistair black, A New History of the English Public Library: social and intellectual contexts, 1850-1914.Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1996 (LIS027.442 B561N)

• Introduction: The‘epiphyte’ Institution
• Ch. 1: In search of an analytical model
• Ch. 2: Foundation of the public library
• Ch. 11: Conclusion

William Learned, The American public library and the diffusion of knowledge, New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [c1924] (LIS021.1L438A)

George Bobinski, Carnegie libraries: their history and impact on American public library development. Chicago: American Library Association. (LIS027.21B663C)

• Ch. 1: Carnegie’s public library philanthropy
• Ch. 8: The Alvin Johnson Report and the end of Carnegie library giving
• Ch. 10: Impact of Carnegie Philanthropy on American Public library development

Robert Ellis Lee: Continuing education for Adults through the American Public Library, 1833- 1964. Chicago: American Library Association, 1966. (LIS 027.21L479C)

• Ch.VII: Summary and conclusions

W Boyd Rayward, Access to Information and the Public Library, Catholic Library World 53 (198): 290-296 (Main stacks 020.5CA)

Samuel Rothstein, The development of reference services through academic traditions, public library practice, and special librarianship. ACRL monographs, no. 14 Chicago : Association of College and Reference Libraries, 1955. (LIS Q. 025.5 R847D1955)

Molz, Redmond Kathleen and Phyllis Dain, Civic space/cyberspace : the American public library in the information age . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999. LIS 027.473 M739c/1

• Ch.1: the Mission: consensus and contradiction (LIS027.473 M739c; also ebook)

[edit] Unit 3: The Professionalization of Librarianship; documentation and the Emergence of Information Science

Dennis Thomison, A History of the American library Association: 1876-1972. Chicago: American Library Association, 1978 (LIS 020.622T46H)

• Ch. 1: The founding of the American Library Association
• Ch 4: The defeat of the enlarged program
• Ch. 5: Internal criticism
• Ch. 10: Response to a changing world

Wayne Wiegand, Irrepressible reformer: a biography of Melvil Dewey. Chicago : American Library Association, 1996. (LIS020.921 D519W)

• CH.2: Creating bureaus and organizations
• Ch.4: “To ride a frisky horse”: Columbia College: 1883-1888
• Ch. 10: Working with the American Library Association: 1889-1904
• Epilogue: Legacy of a hero and a villain

W Boyd Rayward, “The Origins of Information Science and the Work of the International Institute of Bibliography/International Federation for Documentation and Information(FID),” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48 (April 1997): 289-300 (available through ejournals)

Charles C. Williamson, Training for Library service: a report prepared for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Corporation: New York:1923 (LIS 020.7C215T)

• CH 1: Types of library work and training
• Ch.II: The Library School curriculum
• Ch.IV: the Teaching staff
• Ch. XI: the Professional library school and the university (first 2pages)
• Ch.XVI correspondence instruction
• Ch.XVII Standardization and certification
• Ch. XIX Summary of findings and recommendations

Charles C. Williamson, the place of research in library service,” The Library Quarterly 1 (January 1931): 10-17

F.P. Kepel, “The Carnegie Corporation and the Graduate Library school: a historical outline,” Library Quarterly 1(1931):22-25

H.G. Wells, World Brain. London: Methuen, 1937. (Stacks 824W46W1938A)

• Ch. II: The Brain organization of the modern world

Vannevar Bush, “as we May Think,” [Atlantic Monthly , 1945] in From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine, edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn. Boston: Academic Pres, 1991 (LIS004.19 F925)

Douglas Waples, “The Graduate Library School at Chicago,” Library Quarterly 1(1931):16-36 Vernon D. Tate, “Introducing American documentation, American Documentation 1 (Winter 1950): 3-7

Jesse Shera and Margaret E. Egan, “Documentation in the United States,” American Documentation 1 (Winter 1950): 8-12

Fremont Rider, The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: a Problem and its Solution. New York: Hadham Press, 1944 (LIS025R544s)

• The Problem: Ch.1: the Growth of American research Libraries
• The Solution: Ch.1:Micro-cards

Science, Government, and Information: the responsibilities of the Technical Community and the Government in the Transfer of Information: a report of the President’s Advisory Committee [the Weinberg Report]. Washington, D. C. :The White House, 1963 (LIS501Un3s)

Derek J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science. New York: Columbia University press, 1963.

• Ch. 1: A Prologue to a Science of Science (LIS504P928l)
• CH. 2: Invisible Colleges

Irene Farkas-Conn: From Documentation to Information Science: the Beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute- American Society for Information Science. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990 (LIS 020.62273F228F)

• Prologue
• Ch 1. The Incubation period
• Ch. 2: Visions and realities: Documentation in the 1930s
• Ch 3: First steps toward realization
• Ch.4: Organizing the American Documentation Institute
• Ch7: New Winds Blowing
• Ch. 9: A threat, a shift, a new ADI
• Ch.10: A new profession, a changed society

David Ellis, Progress and Problems in Infromation Retrieval . London: the Library Associaion, 1996 (025.524072 EL59N1996)

• Ch.1: Introduction: the Origins of Information Retrieval Research

W. Boyd Rayward, “H.G. Wells’s World Brain: a Critical Re-Assessment” Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (May 15, 1999):19-22 (available through ejournals)

W. Boyd Rayward, "History of Computer applications in Libraries: Prolegomena," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 24 (April -June, 2002): 4-15 (available through ejournals)

[edit] Unit 4: Theorizing Library and Information Science

Gabriel Naudé, Advice on Establishing a Library, [1627]with an introduction by Archer Taylor. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1950 (LIS020N761aE)

John Dury John. The Reformed School and the Reformed Library Keeper, 1651. Menston, Yorks.: Scolar Press, 1972. pp. 15-31 (Stacks370 D96r/1972)

Paul Otlet, “The Science of Bibliography and Documentation” (1903) in International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: selected essays of Paul Otlet translated and edited by W. Boyd Rayward. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990: 71-86 (LIS025 OT5I)

Pierce Butler, Pierce, An introduction to library science. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1933. (LIS020 B98I1967)

Pierce Butler, “The cultural function of the library, “ the Library Quarterly, 22 (1952):79-91 Margaret Egan and Jesse H. Shera, “ Foundations of a theory of bibliography,” Library Quarterly 22 (1952):125-137.

The Intellectual Foundations of Library Education: the twenty-ninth conference of the Graduate Library School, July 6-8, 1964. Edited by Don Swanson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press1964 (LIS020.7C531)

• Abraham Kaplan, ”The age of the Symbol- a philosophy of library education,” pp7-16
• Philip H. Ennis, ”The study of the use and users of recorded knowedge,” pp. 17-26
• Merrill M Flood, ”The Systems Approach to library planning,” pp. 38-50
• Robert M. Hayes, ”The development of a methodology for systems design and its role in library education,” pp51-63

Vladimir Slamenka and Mortimer Taube, ”Theoretical Principles of information organization in librarianship,” pp. 64-73

Patrick Wilson, Two Kinds of Power: an essay in bilbiographical control. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1968. (LIS 020C12P)

• Ch.1: The Bibliographic Universe
• Ch.II: Describing and exploiting
• Ch. III: Relevance

Fritz Machlupand Una Mansfield, ”Cultural Diversity in studies of information,” in The Study of Information: Interdisplinary Messages. Edited by Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983, pp. 3-56 (LIS020ST94)

Howard D. White and Katehrine W. McCain, Visualizing a Discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995,” JASIS 49(4, 1998): 327-355 (available throughejounals)

Marcia Bates, ”The Invisible Substrate of Information Science,” JASIS 50(12, 1999): 1043-1050 (available through emjournals)

Bowles, M. D. The information wars: two cultures and the conflict in information retrieval, 1945- 1999. In: M. E. Bowden, T. B. Hahn and R. V. Williams, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1998 conference on the history and heritage of science information systems. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, Inc., 1999, 156-166 (LIS025.065C76p)

[edit] Unit 5: Historiographical Matters

Jesse Shera, ”The Value of Library History,” Library Quarterly, 22(1952): 240-251 G. Thomas Tanselle, The History of Books as a field of Study: the second Hanes Lecture. Hanes Foundation , Academic affiars Library. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina, 1981 (Rare Bks 002H193)

Kenneth E. Carpenter, ed., Books and society in history. Association of College and Research Libraries Rare books and Manuscripts Preconference 24-28 June, 1980, Boston Massachusetts. New York & London: R. R. Bowker, 1983, (LIS 002B644)

• ”Statement on the history of the book, pp. xi-xii
• G Thomas Tanselle, Introduction, pp. xviiixxiii

Darnton, R. Darnton, R. (1983). What is the History of Books? pp. 3-26.

Paul Raabe, Library history and the history of books: two fields of research for librarians, pp.251- 254

John P. Feather and Dabvid McKitterick, The History of books and Libraries: Two Views. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1986 (LIS002F313H)

Wayne Wiegand,. Library history research in the United States, Libraries and Culture 25 (Winter 1990): 103-114.

Rayward, W.B. The history and historiography of Information Science: Some reflections. Information Processing & Management, 32(1, 1996): 3-17.(available through ejournals)

Black, A. History of modernity and the eclipse of library history. Library History, 14 ( May, 1998): 39-45;

Davis, D.G. Jr. and Aho, J.A. 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;

Black, A. A response to ‘Whither library history?’. Library History, 17 (March, 2001): 37-39.

Ilkka Makinen, Information History, Library History or History By and Large: Remarks on Recent Discusion on Library and Information History, in Aware and Responsible: Papers of the Nordic- International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies, Oulu, Finland, Dec 13-14 2001. Edited by W Boyd Rayward. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003,pp103-113

W Boyd Rayward, “Scientific and Technological Information Systems in Their Many Contexts: the imperatives, clarifications and inevitability of historical study,” Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Edited by W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden. Medford, N.J.: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 20004 (in press)