Professor Rodwell

FIQWS Work and Family

October 22, 2018

 

Annotated Bibliography

 

 

Hemingway, M. (2002). Public library, private management. (Enterprising: business as an act of creation). The American Enterprise, 13(5), 52. Retrieved from  https://link-galegroup-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A88584005/AONE?u=cuny_ccny&sid=AONE&xid=c2b58698

 

This article, written by Mark Hemingway discusses public libraries under private management.  It states some of the challenges public libraries face today, such as fresh technology demands, higher service standards, a need for cost containment, even mergers across old boundaries. It shows a blow in the battle for privatization of ‘inefficient’ public libraries has been taken over by a private company, called the LSSI. It summaries how the LSSI was formed. The LSSI has shown how ‘the allocated money for acquiring new books has gone up and there are more staff.’

This article gives me a perspective on the circumstance’s libraries face that make them face the reality they need to think of privatization.

 

 

Tyckoson, D. (2000). Of the People, for the People: Public Libraries Serve Democracy. American Libraries, 31(4), 40-41. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25637579

 

This excerpt written by David A. Tyckoson discusses the evolution of the public library, and the types of libraries. He writes about what the morals of the founders of the public library were. There are several types of libraries such as Social libraries, Subscription libraries, and the free library. Funding for public libraries are local but it is very important to remember that it educated people. It is a force for democracy.

This article gives me the background of the different types of libraries.

 

Galbraith, Q., Merrill, E., & Outzen, O. (2018). The Effect of Gender and Minority Status on Salary in Private and Public ARL Libraries. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(1), 75–80. https://doi-org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.10.005

 

This study, written by Galbraith, Merrill, and Outzen compares the effect of gender and minority status on public and private ARL libraries. Public and Private libraries can have the same objectives but there are certain social perceptions that one is more elite. It focuses primarily on salary differences between librarians at public institutions. It is very easy to relate higher pay with librarians working at private organization.

This article is helpful to compare to both of my observations.

 

 

 

 

 

Glynn, T. (2005). The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York. Libraries & Culture, 40(4), 493-529. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25541948

 

This reading written by Tom Glynn provides a history of the New York Society Library. It states why it was created, what it stands for and was meant to embody republican ideals of the founders. Today, It is not popular as they imagined but continues to grow. This will be useful to my essay because it provides a history on my critical analysis.

This resource will develop background on the NYSL.

 

 

Preer, J. (2001). Exploring the American Idea at the New York Public Library. American Studies, 42(3), 135-154. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20777607

 

This journal article by Jean L. Preer explores the time when the New York Public library started to form. It started as a reading group and expanded its audience to question its ‘liberal’ consensus at the time. He states how the NYPL expanded as society became more open to widespread democracy. This will give me more background on the New York Public Library.