Library history is subdiscipline within library science

Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the...

 and library and information science

Library and information science

Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...

 focuing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures. There is today a tendency to broadening the field and to speak of information history

Information history

Information history may refer to to each of the categories listed below . It should be recognized that the understanding of, for example, libraries as information systems only goes back to about 1950...

. Library history is an academic discipline

Academic discipline

An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined , and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to...

 and should not be confused with it object of study (history of libraries

History of libraries

The history of the library began with the first effort to organize a collection of documents . It goes back to at least around 1200 BC.. Using a retronym is is often stated that libraries were born when people began to organize information and provide access to that information...

): the discipline is much younger than the libraries it studies.

Journals

• Libraries & the Cultural Record
  Libraries & the Cultural Record
  Libraries & the Cultural Record is an academic journal devoted to the study of the creation, organization, preservation, and utilization of libraries, considered as collections of the cultural record in the context of cultural and social history...
  
  ; exploring the history of collections of recorded knowledge (L & C R); until 2006: Libraries & Culture; until 1988: The Journal of Library History; until 1974: Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship; until 1973: The Journal of Library History.
• Library & Information History (until 2008: Library History; until 1967: Library Association. Library History Group. Newsletter)
• Library History Review
• Library History Round Table Newsletter (L H R T Newsletter), until 1992: L H R T Newsletter; until 198?: L H R T; until 1979: A L H R T Newsletter.

See also

• Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...
  
  
• History of libraries
  History of libraries
  The history of the library began with the first effort to organize a collection of documents . It goes back to at least around 1200 BC.. Using a retronym is is often stated that libraries were born when people began to organize information and provide access to that information...
  
  
• History of public library advocacy
  History of Public Library Advocacy
  Public libraries in the American Colonies can be traced back to 1656, when a Boston merchant named Captain Robert Keayne willed his collection of books to the town. Many of the early colonists had brought books with them from England....
  
  
• Information history
  Information history
  Information history may refer to to each of the categories listed below . It should be recognized that the understanding of, for example, libraries as information systems only goes back to about 1950...
  
  
• Librarians in popular culture
  Librarians in popular culture
  Stereotypes of librarians in popular culture are frequently negative: librarians are portrayed as puritanical, punitive, unattractive, and introverted if female, or timid, and effeminate if male...
  
  
• Libraries & the Cultural Record
  Libraries & the Cultural Record
  Libraries & the Cultural Record is an academic journal devoted to the study of the creation, organization, preservation, and utilization of libraries, considered as collections of the cultural record in the context of cultural and social history...
  
  
• Library
  Library
  In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
  
  
• Library historian

External links

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/lhrt/index.cfm
Library and Information History Group. http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/lhg/welcome.html
http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s44/

Library History Database. http://www.r-alston.co.uk/contents.htm