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Jean-pierre V. M. Hérubel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • To Honor Our Past: Historical Research, Library History and the Historiographical Imperative: Conceptual Reflections and Exploratory Observations
    2016
    Co-Authors: Jean-pierre V. M. Hérubel
    Abstract:

    This exploratory discussion considers History of libraries, in its broadest context; moreover, it frames the entire enterprise of pursuing History as it relates to LIS in the context of doing History and of doing History vis-a-vis LIS. Is it valuable intellectually for LIS professionals to consider their own History, writing historically oriented research, and what is the nature of this research within the professionalization of LIS itself as both practice and discipline? Necessarily conceptual and offering theoretical insight, this discussion perforce tenders the idea that historiographical innovations and other disciplinary approaches and perspectives can invigorate Library History beyond its current condition. This discussion, exploratory at best, and informed by conditions attendant in Anglo-American institutional memory, offers observations, albeit cursory, yet, proffers salient insight and possible suggestions from other institutional venues.

  • Subject and Historiographic Characteristics of Library History
    Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 2011
    Co-Authors: Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-pierre V. M. Hérubel
    Abstract:

    Library History per se has evolved from a highly specialized scholarly endeavour to a field open to a wider range of subjects and orientations. This discussion examines the Library History bibliographies officially compiled for the American Library Association's Library History Round Table, the official and professional association for the History of libraries. The bibliographies for the years 2005 to 2009 were examined for type of publication and subject orientation and examined visually for content. The recent state of Library History is discussed in terms of disciplinary orientations and methodological perspectives as well as to ascertain various intellectual vectors that Library History is exhibiting. Far from being a narrowly conceived interest, it has embraced subjects that transcend Library History, including the History of reading, publishing, intellectual life, and other phenomena affecting libraries as institutions and as sites of intellectual, cultural, and societal exchange.

  • Subject and Historiographic Characteristics of Library History: Disciplinary Considerations and Scholarship
    Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 2011
    Co-Authors: Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-pierre V. M. Hérubel
    Abstract:

    Library History per se has evolved from a highly specialized scholarly endeavour to a field open to a wider range of subjects and orientations. This discussion examines the Library History bibliographies officially compiled for the American Library Association's Library History Round Table, the official and professional association for the History of libraries. The bibliographies for the years 2005 to 2009 were examined for type of publication and subject orientation and examined visually for content. The recent state of Library History is discussed in terms of disciplinary orientations and methodological perspectives as well as to ascertain various intellectual vectors that Library History is exhibiting. Far from being a narrowly conceived interest, it has embraced subjects that transcend Library History, including the History of reading, publishing, intellectual life, and other phenomena affecting libraries as institutions and as sites of intellectual, cultural, and societal exchange.

  • Authorship, Gender, and Institutional Affiliation in Library History:
    Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1992
    Co-Authors: Jean-pierre V. M. Hérubel
    Abstract:

    Library historians can learn a great deal from studying the gender of authorship and institutional affiliation of a scholarly journal. The focus of this study is to examine these two aspects of journal production in Library History to see who is producing published research in this field. Twenty-three years of Libraries & Culture were chosen as the target volumes. The study reveals that more men than women published in Library History as well as locating which institutions were represented. This type of information is usedful to the Library historian engaged in the analysis of published scholarship, and more generally to scholars with an interest in patterns of literature production in fields closely related to the social and behavioral sciences.

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