Arthur P. Young

Library Quarterly, 1956–2004: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis

Library Quarterly’s seventy‐fifth anniversary invites an analysis of the journal’s bibliometric dimension, including contributor attributes, various author rankings, and citation impact. Eugene Garfield’s HistCite software, linked to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science, as made available by Garfield, for the period 1956–2004, was used as the core database for analysis in this essay. A brief comparison of Library Quarterly contributor citation impact and that of College & Research Libraries is also provided. Library Quarterly continues to attract a roster of highly productive, international scholars.

Library Quarterly Management Literature, 1931–2004

Management literature appearing in Library Quarterly, 1931–2004, is examined in this essay. A total of 145 articles are identified that focus on administrative and managerial issues related to libraries during this period. Management literature is construed expansively and includes accounting, administration, assessment, budgets, facilities, organization, outcomes, personnel, planning, purchasing, unions, and library use. Articles are reviewed within a decade‐by‐decade format, beginning with key national management trends and followed by a brief list of seminal thinkers/contributors. In this way, Library Quarterly articles can be evaluated, in part, in the larger national context. Articles are categorized by type of library, topic, and method of investigation. Noteworthy contributors are identified, and citations to Library Quarterly library management articles are evaluated in terms of their appearance in other relevant library serials and a citation database.

Aftermath of a Crusade: World War I and the Enlarged Program of the American Library Association

Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the American Library Association (ALA) embarked on an ambitious program, the Library War Service, to furnish library materials and services to an American army of several million men. The considerable success of this wartime venture, coupled with the nations postwar euphoria, prompted the ALA leadership to sponsor, in the early months of 1919, a project known as the Enlarged Program. The Enlarged Program was a major initiative to revitalize library services and to establish ALA as the dominant force in library affairs. Among the proposals were continuation of selected war-related services, closer liaison with other professional groups, new programs of service for adults and immigrants, promotion of library extension, certification of professional education, and constitutional revision. To achieve these objectives, a

Wayne A. Wiegand and the Library: A Passionate Engagement

2 million fund drive was authorized. Despite the best of intentions, the Enlarged Program turned into ALAs most humiliating defeat until that time. The objectives, campaign strategy, ideology, and reception of the Enlarged Program are considered and assessed.

Politics, Parliament, and Public Libraries in Great Britain: A Review Article

Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers professor of library and information studies and professor of American studies, Florida State University, retires this year. For more than three decades, Wayne’s sustained involvement with librarianship reenergized the profession’s historical studies and brought new conceptual frameworks to the debate. Retirement, not a retiring activity for Wayne, we suspect, is a life-passage moment that may serve to acknowledge one’s contributions. For Wayne, we celebrate an exceptional scholar, an outstanding teacher, a generous and caring mentor, and a stimulating and wise colleague.

Libraries and Culture

The scholarly study of library history has more often been an intermittent endeavor than a matter of continuing curiosity. Explanations for this state of affairs, many of which transcend the field of librarianship, are rather easy to adduce. The remedy is more difficult to prescribe. Clio has been an embattled muse of late. Narrative generalists have been buffeted by the emotionless quantifiers and the behavioral clinicians. Coterminous with this intradisciplinary squabble has been a societal preoccupation with the present and future at the expense of the past. It is this intense preoccupation which threatens to undermine our sense of historical continuity and shared experience. To neglect the study (and reading) of history is to imperil our comprehension of the present and to distort our vision of the future. Despite their roles as bibliothecal curators and interpreters of information, librarians are among those who have not evidenced a sustained concern with their own heritage. Perhaps the practical orientation of the library profession is the culprit, or perhaps there are not enough librarians with the scholarly skills needed to research and write about the library pageant. In all fairness, however, the past few years have witnessed a minor renaissance in studies of library history, and for this aberration we must be grateful. Foremost among the stimuli accounting for the resurgence of interest in library history has been the centennial celebrations of the American Library Association in 1976 and Britains Library Association (LA) in 1977. The appearance of the volumes under review here suitably coincides with the LAs centenary. Collectively, these studies reconstruct the history of public library legislation, examine the role of librarians and political figures associated with the public library movement, and review the contribution of the LA in the struggle for a viable public library [Libray Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 73-78) ?1979 by The University of Chicago. 0024-2519/79/4901-0006

Daniel Coit Gilman in the Formative Period of American Librarianship

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