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Shhh! The secret history of libraries in the 1950s
General 1950’s resources
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General 1950’s resources
Halberstam, D. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1993.
America in the 50’s. (Video) The Fifties Inc, 1997.
Metalious, G. Peyton Place. London: Muller, 1957.
Putnam, R. Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 2000
Fifties Web - www.fiftiesweb.com
Journal articles etc
Adkins, E W. The development of business archives
in the United States: an overview and a personal perspective. American Archivist.
60(1), p. 8-33.
Barber P.; Kuszmaul, M. Whither National Library
Week-and why? American Libraries. 14(1), p. 28-29.
Bennemann, W E. Tears and ivory towers: California
libraries during the McCarthy era. American Libraries. 8(6), p. 305-309.
Brand, S.; Baran, P. Founding father. Wired. 9(3),
p. 144-53.
Carleton, D E. 'McCarthyism was more than McCarthy':
documenting the red scare at the state and local level. Midwestern Archivist.
12(1), p. 13-19.
Connor, J J. Prescribed reading: patients' libraries
in North American tuberculosis institutions. Libraries and Culture. 27(3), p.
252-78.
Cooke, E. The political viability of youth services:
a bit of legislative history. Bottom Line. 7 (3/4), p. 21-5.
Davis, D G. Books, libraries, reading and publishing
in the Cold War. Focus on International and Comparative Librarianship. 29(2),
p. 100-2.
Davis, D G. With malice toward none: IFLA and the
Cold War. IFLA-Journal. 26(1), p.13-20.
Davis, K C. The Lady goes to court: paperbacks
and censorship. Publishing Research Quarterly. 11(4), p. 9-32.
Diamond, S. Archival adventure along the freedom
of information trail: what archival records reveal about the FBI and the universities
in the McCarthy period. Midwestern Archivist. 12(1), p. 29-42.
Gaymon, N E. Reflections of a Black librarian.
Journal of Educational Media Science. 18(4), p. 36-45.
Herner, S. The library and information user-then
and now. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 2(8), p.
32-33.
Jenkins, C. ALA youth services librarians and the
CARE-UNESCO Children's Book Fund: selecting the ‘right book' for children in
cold war America, 1950-1958. Libraries and Culture. 31(1), p.209-34.
Kobayashi, T. The educating of Afro-American librarians
before 1950s [in Japanese]. Toshokan Kai (The Library World). 45(3), p. 308-22.
Manning, R W. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
and their future. International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control. 28(3),
p. 68-71.
Marco, G A. The pioneers: a few good men and women.
Third World Libraries. 6(1), p.7-9.
Marco, G A. The demise of the American core curriculum.
Libri. 44(3), p. 175-89.
Matthews, V H. Kids couldn't wait then either,
but sometimes they had to. American Libraries. 28(6), p.76-80.
McIver, M H. The conversion from the Dewey Decimal
Classification to the Library of Congress Classification in academic libraries:
an historical study.
Mediavilla, C. The war on books and ideas: the
California Library Association and anti-communist censorship in the1940s and
1950s. Library Trends. 46(2), p. 331-47.
Millennium minutes. Against the Grain. 12(6), p.42,
44, 46, 48.
Oberg, L R. The undergraduate library: Lamont and
the American experience. Arlington, VA., Educational Resources Information Center,
1979.
Ohba, I. Separation of professional and nonprofessional
duties in public libraries in the United States of America: a study of the period
between the 1920s and the 1950s. [in Japanese]. Annals of Japan Society of Library
Science. 40(1), p.11-39.
Preer, J. The wonderful world of books: librarians,
publishers, and rural readers. Libraries and Culture. 32(4), p. 403-26.
Preer, J. The American Heritage Project: librarians
and the democratic tradition in the early Cold War. Libraries and Culture. 28(2),
p.165-88.
Robbins, L S. Champions of a cause: American librarians
and the Library Bill of Rights in the 1950s. Library Trends. 45(1), p. 28-49.
Robbins, L S. The Library of Congress and federal
loyalty programs, 1947-1956: no ‘communists or cocksuckers'. Library Quarterly.
64(4), p. 365-85.
Robbins, L S. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown:
Civil Rights, Censorship and the American Library. University of Oklahoma Press,
2000.
Robbins, L S. Censorship and the American Library:
The American Library Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom,
1939-1969. Greenwood Press, 1996.
Salton, G. The past thirty years in information
retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 38(5), p.
375-380.
Sharma, R N. Library education from 3 perspectives:
cognitive, cybernetic, and developmental. Journal of Educational Media Science.
19(2), p. 147-165.
Shera, J H.; Cleveland, D B. History and foundations
of information science. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology,
volume 12, edited by M.E. Williams. New York, Knowledge Industry Publications
for American Society for Information Science. 1977, p. 249-275.
Stock-McIsaac, M.; Quamahongnewa, R.; Finneman,
R.; McIsaac, M S. Native American school library professionals: an unmet need.
School Library Journal. 30(5), p. 38-41.
Tucker, J M. Clio's workshop: resources for historical
studies in American librarianship. Libraries and Culture. 35(1), p.192-214.
Wedgeworth, R. Librarianship - 1984 and beyond.
Alternative futures: proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference, Library Association
of Australia, Canberra, 26-30 Aug 79, edited by J. Baskin, Sydney, Library Association
of Australia. 1979, p. 15-33.
Wertheimer, A B.; Marshall, J D. 50 years of promoting
library history: a chronology of the ALA (American) Library History Round Table,
1947-1997. Libraries and Culture. 35(1), p. 215-39.
Wiegand, W A. American library history literature,
1947-1997: theoretical perspectives? Libraries and Culture. 35(1), p. 4-34.
Yee, M M. Attempts to deal with the 'crisis in
cataloguing' at the Library of Congress in the 1940s. Library Quarterly. 57(1),
p. 1-31.
McReynolds, R. A heritage dismissed. Library Journal.
110(18), p. 25-31.
ALA history
http://www.ala.org/ala_id/history_id.html
Library Bill of Rights
http://www.ala.org/work/freedom/lbr.html
Films
Your Life Work: The Librarian, 1948.
Desk Set, 1957.
The Man Who Never Was, 1956.
Pleasantville, 1998.
Storm Center, 1956.