Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now

285 Pages·2019·4.433 MB·English

by  Patricia Demers and Toni Samek

MINDS ALIVE: LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES NOW

Minds Alive
Libraries and Archives Now
EDITED BY PATRICIA DEMERS
AND TONI SAMEK
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2020
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Minds alive : libraries and archives now / edited by Patricia Demers
and Toni Samek.
Names: Demers, Patricia, editor. | Samek, Toni, editor.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana 2019017272X | ISBN 9781487505271 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Libraries and society. | LCSH: Libraries and community. |
LCSH: Libraries—Social aspects. | LCSH: Archives—Social aspects. |
LCSH: Libraries. | LCSH: Archives.
Classification: LCC Z716.4 .M56 2020 | DDC 021.2—dc23
This book has been published with the assistance of the University of
Alberta and the Kule Institute for Advanced Study.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Funded by the Financé par le
Government gouvernement
of Canada du Canada
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword xi
tami oliphant and ali shiri
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 3
patricia demers and toni samek
Part I: Enduring Values
1 Libraries – Why Bother? 11
alice crawford
2 Academic Library Spaces, Digital Culture, and Communities 23
guylaine beaudry
3 The Public Library’s Enduring Importance 35
marc kosciejew
Part II: Public Literacy and Private Oases
4 Loss of the Social, Return of the Private: Acknowledging Public
Failure in the Age of Boudoir Surplus 51
mario hibert
vi Contents
5 Re-establishing Values, Constructing New Missions: The Value
of the Modern Library in the Development of Digital and
Information Literacy in Public Life 63
konstantina martzoukou
Part III: Transformations and Resistance
6 Libraries’ Shifting Roles and Responsibilities in the Networked
Age 87
michael w. carroll
7 The Interface of the Digital Library: The Perseus Digital Library
as a Case Study 101
geoffrey rockwell, sarah vela, lisa m. cerrato,
mihaela ilovan, stan ruecker, perseus digital
library, and the inke research group
8 Wanderbibliotheken : Travelling Books and DIY Libraries 119
carolyn guertin
Part IV: Disciplinary and Institutional Partnerships
9 Is Professionalism Still an Acceptable Goal for Archivists in the
Global Digital Society? 135
richard j. cox
10 Digital Research with All Our Senses: How the Archivist, the
Historian, and the Librarian Can Work Together on the New
Frontier 147
nigel raab
11 The Critical, yet Often Misunderstood, Functions of a Library
and Archives in a Museum Setting 161
brendan f.r. edwards
Part V: Curation and Commons
12 Beyond Place: Data Curation Possibilities for Post-custodial
Archives and Libraries 173
seamus ross
Contents vii
13 “The X-Files”: The Truth Is in the Archives, but Access Is
Restricted 185
frank j. tough
Works Cited 231
Contributors 253
Index 259

Illustrations
Part Openers
I. Calgary Central Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 10
II. National Archives of India, New Delhi, India 50
III. British Library, London, England 86
IV. Brandenburg University of Technology Library, Cottbus,
Germany 134
V. National Building Museum, Washington, DC, United States of
America 172
Figures
2.1 Social Learning Environment, Webster Library, Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 28
5.1 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian , c. 1566 65
5.2a–c The modern librarian, drawn by MSc Information and
Library students (2009–10), Robert Gordon University,
Aberdeen, Scotland 67
7.1 Perseus 1.0 gateway interface (1992) 105
7.2 Original Perseus website navigation box (1995) 107
7.3 Perseus 2 home page navigation box (1997) 109
7.4 Perseus 2.0 gateway page (platform-independent version) 110
7.5 Perseus 3.0 home page (2000) 112
7.6 Perseus 4.0 home page (2013) 114
13.1 Notifi cation of Document Removal of Legal Opinion, 11 August
1910 191
13.2 Notifi cation of Document Removal of Justice Department Legal
Opinion, 20 July 1897 192
13.3 Results of Manitoba Freedom of Information Request NR-225,
20 June 1994 196