Libraries & the Cultural Record celebrates and documents the history of those who created and preserved the record of human achievement and discovery. A peer-reviewed, quarterly journal of research, it is the first to investigate the historical record of those fields involved in the stewardship of the cultural record -- librarianship and libraries, archival and records enterprise, documentary preservation and conservation, museum administration, and information science. [More...]
- Current Issue Volume 44, number 1, Special Issue: "Personal Papers in History: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives"
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Journal Selected for New JSTOR Collection
Libraries & the Cultural Record will be included in a multidisciplinary JSTOR collection, Arts & Sciences VIII, tentatively scheduled for early 2010. [More...]
Deadline for I-CHORA 5 Papers is April 30
The deadline for submitting a proposal to the Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 5) is April 30. [More...]
Postcards Depict American Libraries of the Past
Bernadette Lear's article in Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43:1, "Wishing They Were There: Old Postcards and Library History," features images from her collection of historic postcards relating to public libraries. [More...]
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Libraries & the Cultural Record
David B. Gracy II, Editor
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
