Libraries and Culture

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Volume 28 Number 1 1993

Libraries & Culture ; a journal of library history
Vol 28 Pt. 1 1993

Contents

THE HISTORY OF READING & LIBRARIES IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES

Introduction
  Paul Kaegbein and Magnus Torstensson ..........................   1

Articles
Den Skotsamme Arbetaren or the conscientious worker
  Ronny Ambjornsson ..............................................   4
Books and reading in Iceland in a historical perspective
  Sigrun Klara Hannesdottir ......................................  13
Public Library development in Norway in the early 20th
 century: American influences and State action
  Lis Byberg .....................................................  22
The birth of an institution: Finnish Public Libraries up to
 the 1920s
  Pirjo Vatanen ..................................................  35
Reading as a means in the political process
  Sigurd Mohlenbrock .............................................  39
The Tartu University Library and its use at the end of the
 17th and the beginning of the 18th century
  Arvo Tering ....................................................  44
Possibilities and limitations of adapting the Scandinavian
 Public Education Model in Germany at the beginning of the
 20th century
  Alexander Greguletz ............................................  55
Is there a Nordic Public Library model?
  Magnus Tortensson ..............................................  59
The Cover - Jan Larsson ..........................................  77

Book Reviews
A National Library in theory and prcatice  by K.W. Humphreys
  Barbara McCrimmon ..............................................  80
Bernardino Stagnino: Un editore a Venezia tra Quattrocento
 e Cinquecento by Stefano Pillinini
  Wayne A. Rebhorn ...............................................  81
John Dee's library catalogue, ed. Julian Roberts & Andrew G. Watson
  Richard W. Clement .............................................  83
A history of the ancient and honourable Tuesday Club by
 Dr Alexander Hamilton, ed. Robert Micklus
  William J. Scheick .............................................  86
La Specola: Ossia curioso osservatorio ed Officina della Societa
 Salernitana di Bibliologia e Bibliofilia, ed. Piero Innocenti
  Sandra da Conturbia ............................................  87
New women for God: Canadian Presbyterian women and Indian
 Missions 1876-1914 by Ruth Compton Brower
  Thomas A. Askew ................................................  89
Women and the work of benevolence: morality, politicas & class
 in the 19th century United States by Lori D. Ginzberg
Natural allies: Women's Associations in American history by
 Anne Firor Scott
  Cheryl Knott Malone ............................................  90
Richard Wagner and the Niebelungs by Elizabeth Magee
  David Hunter ...................................................  91
Maps and the Columbian encounter: an interpretive guide to
 the Travelling Exhibition by J.B. Harley
  Emily Horowitz .................................................  92
Libraries & scholarly communication in the United States: the
 historical dimension, ed. Phyllis Dain & John Y. Cole
  Paul S. Koda ...................................................  94
Confessions of a literary archaeologist by Carlton Lake
  T. Jefferson Kline .............................................  96
International Librarianship  by K.C. Harrison
  Miriam H. Tees .................................................  97
Publishing and cultural politics in revolutionary Paris,
 1789-1810 by Carla Hesse
  Jack R. Censer .................................................  98
Au nom du livre: analyse sociale d'une profession: les
 bibliothecaires  by Bernadette Seibel
Aux origines de l'ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales:
 le role de mecenat americain (1920-1960) by Brigitte Mazon
  Jean-Pierre V.M. Herubel .......................................  99
Die Frau als Personlichkeit im Buchwesen: Dargestellt am
 Beispiel der Gottinger Verlegerin Anna Vandenhoeck
 (1709-1787) by Barbara Losel
  Valerie R. Hotchkiss ........................................... 103
Property of a gentleman: the formation, organization and
 dispersal of the private library 1620-1920, ed. Robin Myers
 and Michael Harris
  Alan Gribben ................................................... 105
The library of the British Museum: retrospective essays on the
 Department of Printed Books, ed. P.R. Harris
  Robin Alston ................................................... 106
Britishg Royal bookplates and Ex-Libris of related families
 by Brian North Lee
  Sidney E. Berger ............................................... 110
Early bindings in paper: a brief history of European hand-made
 paper-covered books with a multilingual glossary by Michele
 Valerie Cloonan
  Gary Frost ..................................................... 111
Communications ................................................... 114


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