Map collections; [papers]

Cover title.

Information literacy and education for the 21st century : toward an agenda for action : a symposium /

Mode of access: Internet.

The general plan in the urban planning process : essay and bibliography.

Caption title.

Report made to the Committee on the classification of library personnel of the American library association by the Bureau of public personnel administration acting as technical staff for the committee.

Mode of access: Internet.

Revista interamericana de bibliografía = Review of inter-American bibliography.

English title varies: Inter-American review of bibliography, 1952-

Medical library and historical journal.

Editors: Jan.-Oct. 1903, A. T. Huntington, J. S. Brownne; Jan. 1904-Dec. 1907, A. T. Huntington.

The Wilson bulletin.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Public libraries of Maine.

"Directory of libraries--librarians--hours, statistics."

Proceedings.

Papers of the 15th meeting, Chicago 1893, were published in full in the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1892-93, pt.2, chap. 9; also separately under title: Papers prepared for the World's Library Congress, held at the Columbian Exposition, Washington, 1896.

Property valuation: its relation to zoning and city planning

Committee of Planning Librarians continued by Council of Planning Librarians.

Medical libraries.

Mode of access: Internet.

New York state library school register 1887-1926.

Four earlier editions were issued as Library school bulletins: no. 2, covering the years 1887-1896; no. 11, 1887-1901; no. 31, 1887-1911; no. 48, 1887-1921.

R is for reading : library service to blind and physically handicapped children /

Mode of access: Internet.

El campo de la Bibliotecología en el horizonte vocacional de los jóvenes : Matrícula, prácticas y representaciones

La escasa demanda que la carrera de bibliotecología tendría entre la población joven, especialmente entre quienes finalizan sus estudios de nivel medio, constituye en la actualidad una de las problemáticas que enfrenta el universo social de los bibliotecarios como campo disciplinar. A partir de esta situación, en el presente artículo pretendemos, por un lado, relevar características de la matrícula de la carrera de Bibliotecología en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) -Argentina-, tomando como fuente de información los Anuarios Estadísticos del período 2000-2014 de la mencionada universidad. Por otro, y a partir de un trabajo de campo que se hizo en once establecimientos educativos de nivel medio de la ciudad de Córdoba, abordaremos las prácticas y las percepciones que sobre la carrera de bibliotecología y la institución bibliotecaria tienen los jóvenes que cursaron en el 2015 el último año de estudios de la escuela media. La información recabada nos permite inferir que el escaso interés por estudiar bibliotecología estaría asociado a que el universo social de la bibliotecología no ocupa un lugar significativo en el horizonte perceptivo de los jóvenes de la escuela media.

The state of history and the empire of metaphysics [Review]

One of the curious things about this challenging book is that its ostensible subject— the Saxon medical and political scientist Hermann Conring (1606–1681)— is not mentioned in the title. Constantin Fasolt argues that we cannot know what Conring really thought or meant in his writings, which means that his topic cannot be Conring as such and must instead be that which occludes our knowledge of him, the titular limits of history. Given that we do in fact learn a good deal about Conring from Fasolt’s book, we can only hope that the decapitation of its subject will be rectified in a subsequent edition, or perhaps by the restorative work of librarians putting together subject headings. And yet Fasolt’s decision is understandable, for Conring is indeed a stalking-horse for a much bigger quarry: historiography and the historical consciousness. By “history” Fasolt understands a way of imposing intelligibility on the world, which is founded on the twin assumptions that the past is gone and unchangeable, and that the meaning of texts can be determined by placing them in their historical contexts (ix). In challenging this mode of intelligibility, Fasolt is not attempting to improve professiona history—it’s already as good as it can be—but to displace it. He regards his work as a declaration of “independence from historical consciousness” (32). At the same time, Fasolt insists that he is not simply jumping from historiography to philosophy, or attempting to preempt history with ontology (37-39). That has been tried by Nietzsche and Heidegger, who have been tainted by Nazism (Fasolt thinks unfairly). It has also been attempted by modern philosophers from Gadamer to Foucault and Charles Taylor who, in failing to address the “violence” that its mode of intelligibility does to the world, have not succeeded in outflanking history. Perhaps, Fasolt wonders, it is only the personal experience of those who have been subject to this violence—the experience of those who have been subject to historical examination—that can break the spell of history. Fasolt’s disclaimer notwithstanding, in the course of these remarks I shall argue that he is indeed jumping from history to philosophy, or attempting to outflank history by subjecting it to a particular metaphysical understanding. I shall do so in part by sketching the recent intellectual history of this move—a historical examination that I hope inflicts as little violence as possible on Fasolt’s argument.