Recently added articles from Library Trends:

Introduction: Alternative Print Culture.

Jan 01, 2008; Wiegand, Wayne A. ... I sometimes tease my colleagues in history, English, and other traditional humanities disciplines that they have consistently undervalued the importance libraries have played in their own scholarly lives. To prove my point, I refer to Name of the Rose, an award-winning novel published in ...

The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis.

Jan 01, 2008; Berlet, Chip ... ABSTRACT Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to alternative or "oppositional" serials from the political right, even though a number of scholars have used these materials as primary sources for studies in several academic disciplines. This overview reviews some of ...

The joy of finding periodicals "Not in Danky".

Jan 01, 2008; Burkett, Randall K. ... ABSTRACT This essay examines the seminal reference tool, African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), edited by James P. Danky. It provides background on the creation of this highly acclaimed volume and ...

Native American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation, 1982 to the present.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr. ... ABSTRACT In late April 1982, James P. Danky organized a conference titled "Native American Press in Wisconsin and the Nation," an extension of the work Danky had been engaged in as newspapers and periodicals librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, which brought native ...

Internationalizing working-class history since the 1970s: challenges from historiography, archives, and the web.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Harzig, Christiane ... ABSTRACT In this essay the communication practices of labor migrants and their evolution from nineteenth-century print media to late twentieth-century electronic media provide the frame for a discussion of the limitations of national approaches to collection and interpretation. ...

Reconstructing a life: the archival challenges of women's history.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Sachs, Honor R. ... ABSTRACT The field of women's history emerged and developed through the joint efforts of scholars, librarians, and archivists. When the field emerged in the early 1970s, the combined labor of individuals in these academic disciplines unearthed otherwise obscure archival ...

Collecting the wretched refuse: lifting a lamp to zines, military newspapers, and Wisconsinalia.(Essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Dodge, Chris ... ABSTRACT Newspapers/periodicals librarian James Danky does collection building wherever he goes and with whomever he communicates, it seems. Thanks to his efforts, the Madison-based Wisconsin Historical Society collects materials from categories other librarians usually ...

An alternative vision of librarianship: James Danky and the sociocultural politics of collection development.

Jan 01, 2008; Dilevko, Juris ... ABSTRACT The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-development practices. Danky's belief in the value of alternative periodicals--and the lengths that he went to identify and ...

"Success on a shoestring:" a center for a diverse Print Culture History in Modern America.

Jan 01, 2008; Pawley, Christine ... ABSTRACT In 1992 James Danky, Wayne Wiegand, and Carl Kaestle founded the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study of print culture was then a new field represented by scholars from many disciplines, including ...