Libraries Without Borders

Steven A. Knowlton is Librarian for History and African American Studies at Princeton University. His research has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, and he has served on editorial boards or as editor for numerous scholarly publications including Libraries: Culture, History, Society. He has won the Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award twice and is the recipient of prizes from the West Tennessee Historical Society and the North American Vexillological Association. His first edited book, Oscar Federhen's Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas, appeared in 2022. Ellen M. Pozzi is an Associate Professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Her research interests include library history and diversity in children's and young adult literature. Her publications include "Going to 'America': Italian Neighborhoods and the Newark Free Public Library, 1900-1920" published in the edited book Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America. She is an ALA Councilor and a past chair of the Library History Round Table. Jordan S. Sly is the Head of the Humanities and Social Science Librarians and the librarian for Anthropology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Digital Humanities, French, German, and Italian studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published in the areas of library history, the extensions of critical theory in the practice of librarianship, digital humanities, and more. Emily D. Spunaugle is Humanities and Rare Books Librarian at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). She is published in library history and book history of the long eighteenth century and is co-director of the Marguerite Hicks Project. She has served as chair of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and as associate editor for SHARP News.

Part I Community Formation and Centers of Literacy

Chapter 1 Locating Activism and Memory: Reimagining 1960s Civil Rights Familial Communities in a Library and Information Context LaVerne Gray, Beth J. H. Patin, Tyler Youngman, and Rachael Nutt

Chapter 2 “Thank You, Father, for Your Grand Cooperation”: Outreach and the Founding of the Marian Library Henry Handley

Part II Library Outreach beyond Borders

Chapter 3 Uncharted Waters: A History of the Bibliographic Instruction Movement and Its Administrative Context Kelly Hangauer

Part III Boundary-Setting and Conflicts in Library History

Chapter 4 Better Late Than Never: Stories of Long-Overdue Books John DeLooper

Chapter 5 Defining the Boundaries of Propaganda: Informational Materials Subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act in American Research Libraries Emily D. Spunaugle

Part IV The Practice of Library History

Chapter 6 Getting Started: Research in the History of American Libraries Tom Glynn

Chapter 7 Illuminating Diversity in History Research and Education: A Shared Past, Present, and Future Loriene Roy and Rea N. Simons