[LIS 612] History of Books & Libraries

Andrew B. Wertheimer, University of Hawaii at Manoa LIS Program

Course Syllabus [PDF]

Student Writing Handbook

Class field trip to the Hawaii Mission Houses Museum (library, archive & press).

Selected Links

Associations

• American Library Association- Library History Round Table (with an excellent online bibliography)
• Library History Seminar
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) [with excellent links]
• [U.K.] Library Association - Library & Information History Group
• Voice of Youth Advocates - Two Hundred Years of Young Adult Library Services History: A Chronology

Journals

• Libraries & Culture
• Library History

Selected Musuems and Online Projects

• Davies Project at Princeton University (Research into the History of University Libraries in the US and the History of their Collections)
• The Library History Buff
• Library History Postcards on the Web