Course Title & Textbooks

LIS 2222: Archival Appraisal
Books:
Richard J. Cox, Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1996).  ISBN 0810840103
Richard J. Cox, No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (Scarecrow Press, 2004). ISBN: 0810848961
Helen W. Samuels, Varsity Letters: Documenting  and Universities (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992).   ISBN 0810834987
Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds, eds., Imagining Archives: Essays and Reflections by Hugh Taylor (Scarecrow Press, Association of Canadian Archivists, and Society of American Archivists, 2003).  ISBN 0-8108-4771-x
Frank Boles, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts Society of American Archivists, 2005).  ISBN 1-931666-11-3
Barbara Craig, Archival Appraisal: Theory and Practice (Munchen: K. G. Saur, 2004).  ISBN 3-598-11538-5

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LIS 2223: Archival Access and Advocacy
Books:
Elsie Freeman Finch, ed., Advocating Archives: An Introduction to Public Relations for Archivists (Metuchen, New Jersey: Society of American Archivists and the Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994).  ISBN: 0810847736
Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt and Peter J. Wosh, eds., Privacy and Confidentiality Perspectives: Archivists and Archival Records (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005).  ISBN: 1931666105
Verne Harris, Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006). [This book will be published in January 2007]
Margaret Procter, Michael G. Cook, and Caroline Williams, Political Pressure and the Archival Record (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005)            ISBN: 1931666156
Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (New York: Random House, 2000).     ISBN: 0767908260
Richard J. Cox,  Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post-9/11 Digital Age (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2003). ISBN: 081084835X
Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (New York: ECC, 2005). ISBN: 0060593768
Bruce W. Dearstyne, ed., Leadership and Administration of Successul Archival Programs (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001).       ISBN: 0313315752
Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Crown Publishers, 2001).      ISBN: 0609808990
Alasdair Roberts, Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ISBN: 0521858704
Richard J. Cox, Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (London: Facet Publishing, 2006). ISBN: 185604596X

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LIS 2280: History of Books, Printing, Publishing
Pre: None
Books:
Basbanes, Nicholas. A gentle madness: bibliophiles, bibliomanes and the eternal passion for books.  New York, Henry Holt, 1999.  ISBN: 0805061762  [Recommended]
Carter, John and Nicolas Barker.  ABC for book collectors, 8th ed.New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2004.  ISBN: 1-58456-112-2
Chappell, Warren and Robert Bringhurst.  A short history of the printed word.  Point Roberts, WA, Hartley & Marks, 1999.   ISBN: 0-88179-154-7
Eisenstein, E.  The printing revolution in early modern Europe.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.  ISBN:0-521-60774-4
Gaskell, Philip.  A new introduction to bibliography.  New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1995.  ISBN: 1-884718-13-2
Kilgour, Frederick G.  The evolution of the book.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.  ISBN: 0-19-511859-6
Manguel, Alberto.  A history of reading.  New York, Penguin, 1996.  ISBN: 0-1401-6654-8

Mann, Thomas.  Oxford guide to library research.  Oxford University Press, 2005.  ISBN: 0195189981 [Recommended]
McKittterick, David.  Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.  Cambridge University Press, 2003.  ISBN 0521618525
Petroski, Henry.  The book on the bookshelf.  New York, Random House, 2000.  ISBN: 0-375-70639-9
Van Slyck, Abigail A.  Free to all, Carnegie libraries and American culture, 1890-1920.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995.  ISBN: 0-226-85032-3
Winchester, Simon.  The Meaning of Everything:  the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2003.  ISBN: 019517500XZboray, Ronald J. and Mary Saracino Zboary.  A handbook for the study of book history in the United States./  Washington, DC, Center for the Book, 2000.  ISBN: 0-8444-1012-2  [Recommended]

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