Papers by Dr. Jean-Pierre V. M. Herubel
Indiana Libraries, Jan 2, 1990
Choice Reviews Online, Feb 1, 1995
Preface The Annales: Its History and Evolution Historiography and Theory Major Historians and Rep... more Preface The Annales: Its History and Evolution Historiography and Theory Major Historians and Representative Scholarship Index
Collection Management, Jul 1, 2010
New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focus... more New and emerging roles are transforming the landscape of academic librarianship. This paper focuses on the changes facing academic librarians whose activities and responsibilities in collections are shifting, particularly in the face of greater emphasis on user-driven collection development. Librarians’ reduced role in routine collection development translates into gaining more time and support to move in other directions. Among many
Journal of magazine media, Sep 1, 2021
Libraries & The Cultural Record, 2004
ABSTRACT Libraries & Culture 39.3 (2004) 343-344 It would be unthinkable to speak of hist... more ABSTRACT Libraries & Culture 39.3 (2004) 343-344 It would be unthinkable to speak of history or the past without mentioning time. The very notion or concept of time is open to a myriad of possible definitions if not interpretations. It is known that different cultures conceive of the passage of events, either personal or collective, differently, adding significance according to culturally bound perceptions. Scientifically, time possesses characteristics that can be measured; therefore, it has practical qualities. But time or the perception of the past is laden with layers of interpretation. How and perhaps why the past is loaded with such interpretations and perceptions of significance are the basis of the overarching challenge Eviatar Zerubavel has undertaken. A sociologist by profession, Zerubavel explores how collective memory animates the past and its historical presentation in societies. Fluid and not strictly chronological, the past is malleable and often quite reflective of various conscious and subconscious agendas. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past is a valiant attempt to offer a conceptual framework that speaks to the very animus of human perceptions and relationships to the past. From a social scientific perspective, Zerubavel leads the reader into a world where human beings, sociologically constructing individual and collective identities, necessarily reconfigure the past. Current events and concerns are perforce reconstituted within the appropriation of the past according to memory and its mental mapping. Without truly delving into contemporary historical and historiographical scholarship specifically treating memory as opposed to history, a sociological analysis ensues. Structures, subtle and highly adaptive to social construction, assume articulated advantage when examining past events. Contemporary politics, economic and social policies, diplomacy, military conflict, and so on are interwoven within these memories, which are acculturated in all societies. Did Rome fall in A.D. 476 or later, or are declarations of new beginnings, or the end of a golden age, reflective of temporal veracity, or social constructions, dependent upon colorations? Such phenomena have fallen under the purview of some historians, especially cultural historians, attempting to assess hidden meanings and symbols of behavior. Zerubavel utilizes sociological methodologies and perspectives to plumb these subterranean conditions of human temporality. Such constructions of memory are not subservient to an objective reading of past events but serve as social and psychological markers, capable of informing comportment. It is not rationally possible to assume that contemporary events are objectively framed and predicated upon historian-driven consensus. Actors fulfill their functions according to these reconstituted memories and act upon them as though they were actual and correct histories. National political or religious celebrations are predicated upon memorial interpretations that recalibrate past events and their signifying power. Thus, the founding of ALA as the true beginning of public librarianship may or may not reflect historical veracity. Long memories can exert deleterious effects upon national consciousness, so much so that conflicts between nations or the remembrance of past transgressions, either real or imagined, can gain the force of conviction and impose themselves upon the present. What lessons are there for librarianship in Zerubavel's work, and can they be effectively acknowledged and utilized? First, Zerubavel's sociological perspective can frame a profession's most cherished mythologies, recasting them as a way to further comprehend a profession's core beliefs and operational tenets. For library historians, serious examination of salient belief systems that originate in library science's prehistory to the present can emerge as they parallel practice and theory. According to Zerubavel, memory is punctuated, rarely seamlessly fluid, and open to recasting, so well exemplified in his accompanying twenty-four diagrams and figures. The historian can acknowledge memory, mapping time with the power of cultural and social signification, further articulating the past within the prescriptions of the historical profession. But historian beware—human beings create their own memories, investing signifying temporal markers of what for them is the reality of the past, and they imbue it with their existential colorations.
portal - Libraries and the Academy, 2019
This study utilized dissertation bibliographies produced at Purdue University in West Lafayette, ... more This study utilized dissertation bibliographies produced at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, a STEM-oriented university, to ascertain how well Purdue's Humanities, Social Science, and Education (HSSE) Library supports doctoral research. To examine a critical mass of data, the authors gathered all the bibliographies of dissertations written in 11 disciplines within the College of Liberal Arts in 2011 and 2015. Data for each citation included year of publication, language, format type, and local availability in print or digitally. Revealing disciplinary trends in using sources, this study provided critical information for reconceptualizing the HSSE Library's orientation to learning and research and for engaging with faculty to understand where to strengthen the library's collections.
Publishing Research Quarterly, Mar 19, 2018
In academia, humanists, social scientists, and those in the various sciences, write books that as... more In academia, humanists, social scientists, and those in the various sciences, write books that assume major cultural capital for promotion, tenure, and for dissemination of scholarship. For the beginning academic, doctoral education is the acculturative process by which nascent scholars achieve competence in their respective disciplines. The capstone research experience culminates in the doctoral dissertation in the humanities and social sciences, often, and with substantial revision, the first book in professorial life. This study attempts to frame the production, illustrative bibliographic characteristics, and major publishers of revised dissertations published by university and scholarly trade presses. This study is grounded in data provided by YPB's Gobi database and further articulated by utilization of the Library of Congress Classification system, and further frames the degree of interdisciplinarity, pricing, geographical concentrations, and other aspects of these books and investigates the similarities and dissimilarities between university press and scholarly trade presses. Illustrative examples display trends and provides suggestions for future analysis and research.
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Dec 1, 2019
Academic historians need to publish books in their respective specializations. Only a very few of... more Academic historians need to publish books in their respective specializations. Only a very few of these historians, however, are honoured with an American Historical Association (AHA) award for their monograph. This exploratory examination of selected AHA awards situates the award-winning monographs vis-à-vis the constellation of scholarly publishers that produced them. We sorted past AHA award winners by the press that published them, the gender of their author, and their area of specialization. The publishers most likely to publish an AHA-award-winning book constitute a small publishing core, yet there is room for a diverse group of publishers in the market for historical monographs.
Publishing Research Quarterly, Jul 10, 2020
Book reviews constitute an important component in the communication ecology driving and sustainin... more Book reviews constitute an important component in the communication ecology driving and sustaining historical scholarship. This examination frames the discussion of the book review as artifact of communication. Within the context of its perceived value, its significance to historians, and its position within this ecosystem, the book review is further contextualized within a discussion of subject specialization. Additionally, the intellectual and professional position the book review occupies in this ecology, is broached, and tempered by historians' observations concerning its relative status, purpose, and necessity for the historical profession. Further observations are articulated by university press directors within the context of the influence that book reviews exert within this communication ecology. Keywords Academic history • Book reviews • Journals • Disciplines Academic disciplines subsist on communication ecologies that sustain their respective activities, research, professionalization, as well as validate their existence. Academic history is but one of these academic disciplines that relies upon a strongly defined communication ecology that includes monographs, articles, and book reviews for effective intellectual consensus and scholarly rigor. The monograph is perceived and indeed, supported by the historical profession as the gold standard, more so than the article, the latter appearing in descending order of scholarly importance. 1 Critically, where does the book review fit in this communication ecology; what is its raison d'être vis-à-vis the monograph, let alone the article? How do historians perceive the book review within this graduation of scholarly significance and importance to professionalization? For approximately a 50-year period, book
Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Jul 1, 2016
This paper explores basic bibliographic and some intellectual characteristics of revised art hist... more This paper explores basic bibliographic and some intellectual characteristics of revised art history dissertations published as university press titles. Book data available from Yankee Book Peddler were gathered for revised dissertations published as books from 1998 to 2013. This corpus revealed subject concentrations, key university presses, and some intellectual characteristics (including interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary focus). In addition, geographical subject distribution, page counts, and cost were examined. This study offers a quantitative survey of art history books that originated as dissertation research.
French Historical Studies, 2001
ABSTRACT In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: French Historical Studie... more ABSTRACT In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: French Historical Studies 25.1 (2002) 173-186 Bibliographical, Reference, and Archival Publications "Editions, ouvrages collectifs, revues, articles, agrégation 2001: Les Complaintes de Jules Laforgue. Bibliographie." Dix-neuviéme siècle 31 (2000): 75–91. General and Miscellaneous Barbier, F. "Représentation, contrôle, identité: Les pouvoirs politiques et les bibliothèques centrales en Europe, XVe–XIXe siècles." Francia 26 (1999): 1–22. Bell, L. "Interpreting Collective Action: Methodology and Ideology in the Analysis of Social Movements in France." Modern and Contemporary France 9 (2001): 183–96. Beretta, M. "From Nollet to Volta: Lavoisier and Electricity/De Nollet á Volta: Lavoisier et l'électricité." Revue d'histoire des sciences 54 (2001): 29–52. Bouyssy, M. "Alphonse Dupront et le mythe de croisade." Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 47 (2000): 616–20. Carrier, D. "Art Museums, Old Paintings, and our Knowledge of the Past." History and Theory 40 (2001): 170–89. Cerisier, A. "L'univers des formes (1955–1997): Livres d'art et pratiques éditoriales." Bibliothèque de L'Ecole des Chartes 158 (2000): 247–71. Charle, C. "Des sciences pour un empire culturel." Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 133 (2000): 89–95. Charlier, J.-L. "Interactions entre art et techniques durant la préhistoire." Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 50 (2000): 7–17. Chimisso, C. "Hélène Metzger: The History of Science between the Study of Mentalities and Total History." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32A (2001): 203–41. Cohen-Solal, A. "Claude L. Strauss in the United States." Partisan Review 67 (2000): 252–60. Cohn, E. "Benjamin Franklin, Georges-Louis Le Rouge, and the Franklin/Folger Chart of the Gulf Stream." Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 52 (2000): 124–42. Daguet, F. "L'évolution de la fécondité des générations nées de 1917 á 1949: Analyse par rang de naissance et niveau de diplôme." Population 55 (2000): 1021–34. de Baecque, A. "Pour une histoire visuelle du vingtième siècle: Le musée du cinéma Henri Langlois et les historiens." French Politics, Culture, and Society 19 (2001): 64–80. Debrary, O. "Mémoire oublieuse." French Politics, Culture, and Society 19 (2001): 102–13. Derouet, B. "Parenté et marché foncier á l'époque moderne: Une réinterprétation." Annales: Histoire, science sociales 56 (2001): 337–68. Dewald, J. "Lost Worlds: French Historians and the Construction of Modernity." French History 14 (2000): 424–42. Dionne, U. "Félibien dialoguiste: Les Entretiens sur les vies des peintres." XVIIe Siècle 53 (2001): 49–74. Duindam, J. "Ceremony at Court: Reflexions on an Elusive Subject." Francia 26 (1999): 131–40. Duport, D. "La variété botanique dans les récits de voyage au XVI siècle: Une glorification du Créateur." Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 101 (2001): 195–212. Duroux, R. "Estrategias patrimoniales excluyentes: Un caso frances." Hispania 60 (2000): 315–30. Ejrnaes, M., and K. Persson. "Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825–1903: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price." Explorations in Economic History 37 (2000): 149–73. Endy, C. "French Archives and Tourism: Report from an Americanist in Paris." Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 31 (2000): 1–13. Faria, V., and C. Diebolt. "Trends in Public Employment and Wages: The Case of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Historical Social Research 25 (2000): 3–24. Fieschi, C. "L'illustration photographique des thèses de science en France (1880–1909)." Bibliothèque de L'Ecole des Chartes 158 (2000): 223–45. Gemie, S. "Mirbeau and the Politics of Misogyny." Journal of European Studies 31 (2001): 71–98. Geschiere, P. "Regard académique, sorcellerie, et schizophrénie (commentaire)." Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales 56 (2001): 643–49. Gordon, R. "From Charcot to Charlot: Unconscious Imitation and Spectatorship in French Cabaret and Early Cinema." Critical Inquiry 27 (2001): 515–49. Grimoult, C. "La révolution transformiste en France (1800–1882)." Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 47 (2000): 565–80. Guery, A. "Versailles: Le phantasme de l'absolutisme." Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales 56 (2001): 507–17. Guilhaumou, J...
Learned Publishing, Feb 13, 2023
Publishing Research Quarterly, Jun 22, 2021
Indiana Libraries, Jan 2, 2008
Jean-Pierre VM Herubel ibrarians intent on learning about or acquiring French doctoral dissertati... more Jean-Pierre VM Herubel ibrarians intent on learning about or acquiring French doctoral dissertations for their research collections may wish to understand useful information regarding French doctoral research as well as some general characteristics of French doctoral dissertations. French doctoral dissertations form a unique culture which may present a terra incognita for American librarians and researchers. This cursory introduction to French doctoral grey literature in the humanities and social sciences attempts to offer an overview of doctoral dissertations that may be available for purchase as well as what has been collected by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in their foreign dissertations collection. Several disciplines were chosen to offer reference and collections librarians a short, but instructive appreciation for students, researchers, and users interested in French subjects that may require the use of French doctoral dissertations. Communication and Information Science, Philosophy, and Art History and Archaeology were examined for their respective grey literature characteristics.
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