Our Historiographical Enterprise: Shifting Emphases and Directions

Reflections on the Twentieth-Century History of American Librarianship, Wiegand carried forward into the twentieth century Kenneth Carpenter's 1996 evaluation of nineteenthcentury library literature.5 After surveying the most important historical writings on libraries that have appeared during...

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Published in:Libraries & the cultural record 2010-06, Vol.45 (3), p.350-358
Main Author: Goedeken, Edward A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Academic libraries
American literature
Analysis
Archives & records
Cultural history
Cultural institutions
Essays
Essays & Notes
Historiography
History instruction
Institutional libraries
Libraries
Library history
Literary history
Literature
Museums
School libraries
Surveying
Theory
United States history
USA
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Summary:Reflections on the Twentieth-Century History of American Librarianship, Wiegand carried forward into the twentieth century Kenneth Carpenter's 1996 evaluation of nineteenthcentury library literature.5 After surveying the most important historical writings on libraries that have appeared during the past century (at least 125 of them!), Wiegand bemoaned the lack of solid historical work on all sorts of libraries: public, academic, special, and school. [...] he insisted that beyond basic narrative history we should begin to incorporate into our work the thoughts of a number of prominent theorists, including Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, and Longino (and I'll throw in Bourdieu and Baudrillard for good measure).
ISSN:1932-4855
1932-9555
2164-8034
1932-9555
2166-3033
DOI:10.1353/lac.2010.0007