CILIP | Library and Information History Group: Journal

Library History

Audience
Contents and abstracts
Call for papers
Books for review
Ordering information

Audience
There is a growing interest at an academic level in all aspects of the 'history of the book' and related disciplines. This is a journal not only for librarians but also anyone interested in social, cultural, and intellectual history. Throughout history, libraries have been the repositories of knowledge of all kinds. Without libraries, we should know nothing of former ages nor the thoughts of our ancestors. In the age of computers and the internet, a new concept has arrived in the form of the 'virtual' library: technology may have developed, but the idea of a library as a source for knowledge still survives.

Library History is a refereed journal, publishing articles of a high academic standard. It covers all subjects and all periods relating to the history of libraries world-wide, and frequently receives contributions from scholars world-wide. Issues include substantial articles as well as book reviews and occasional surveys of recent publications and guides to relevant sources.

Library History, established in 1967 as the journal of the Library History Group (now the Library and Information History Group) of the Library Association (now the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), is the only British periodical devoted exclusively to the study of the history of libraries and librarianship. Library History will be published four times per year from 2007. Each issue will contain about 80 pages as before, meaning that there will be a fifty per cent increase in the number of pages produced each year. This will be good news not just to readers but to contributors as well. This expansion reflects the considerable increase in interest being shown to the study of library history in recent years, partly due to the increased attention being paid to all aspects of 'book history' and also the growing number of conferences at which papers on library history are being presented.

Contents and abstracts
Contents and abstracts of the most recent issues are now available online through the Maney Publishing site:

Volume 18 Number 3 (2002)
Volume 18 Number 2 (2002)
Volume 18 Number 1 (2002)
Volume 17 Number 3 (2001)
Volume 17 Number 2 (2001)
Volume 17 Number 1 (2001)
Volume 16 Number 2 (2000)
Volume 16 Number 1 (2000)
Volume 15 Number 2 (1999)
Volume 15 Number 1 (1999)

Contents of past issues are also available on this site:

Volume 14 Number 2 (Nov 1998)
Volume 14 Number 1 (May 1998)
Volume 13 (1997)
Volume 12 (1996)
Volume 11 (1995)
Volume 10 (1994)
Volume 9 Numbers 5 and 6 (1993)

Call for papers
Contributions are welcome. Style notes for contributors are available from the editor. Please send all contributions to the Editor.

Books for review
Please send to:
Ed Potten
46 Moorside Road
Heaton
Stockport
SK4 4DS

Ordering information
Library History is published by:

Maney Publishing
Hudson Road
Leeds LS9 7DL
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 113 249 7481
Fax: +44 113 248 6983
Email: mailto:maney@maney.co.uk?subject=Library History journal

Orders and price information can be obtained from Maney Publishing.

Updated: 09 October 2006