Library Trends honors Mary Niles Maack

Library Trends 72 (3) front cover

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 72 (3). This issue, "Feminist and Global Perspectives on an Evolving Profession: Papers Honoring Mary Niles Maack," celebrates Maack’s life and career as well as her scholarship’s influence around the globe. Maack’s colleagues, Michèle V. Cloonan and Suzanne M. Stauffer, served as guest editors.

This special issue includes reflections by authors for whom Maack served as teacher, mentor, and colleague as well as highlights of her research. It also presents new research that builds upon Maack’s impressive scholarship.

In early 2025, Library Trends will host a virtual webinar featuring this issue, which will include discussions with the guest editors and select authors regarding Maack’s legacy.

Table of Contents:

  • "Introduction" by Michèle V. Cloonan and Suzanne M. Stauffer
  • "Mary Niles Maack: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Friend" by Cindy Mediavilla
  • "La Visionnaire: An Intellectual Biography of Mary Niles Maack" by Renate Chancellor
  • "'Something that Belongs to All of Us': Beda Cornwall and the Las Vegas Public Library Campaign" by Su Kim Chung
  • "Researching the Personal Life: Mary Niles Maack's Early Writing on Feminist Biography" by Michèle V. Cloonan
  • "Veritable Miracle: Situating Black Women Librarian Networks within a Feminist Historical Paradigm" by LaVerne Gray and Jeongbae Choi
  • "Leadership for Social Change: Clara Whitehill Hunt and the Evolution of Children's Librarianship" by Suzanne M. Stauffer
  • "The Colonial Adventures of Confiscated Arabic Texts: Ibn Battuta's Rihla Manuscript from North Africa to the French National Library" by Sumayya Ahmed, Theo Dumothier, and Kai Miyabayashi McGinn
  • "Care Ethics for French Twenty-First-Century Librarians: Examining Ecologie Documentaire and an Ethics of Care for the Environment" by Raphaëlle Bats
  • "'A Start Must Be Made': An Evaluation of the Published History of Women in Australian Libraries" by Mary Carroll
  • "Continuity and Change in West African Librarianship: Revisiting Mary Niles Maack's Research in Senegal and the Region" by Peter Johan Lor
  • "Finding Amy Jones: An Amiable Network of Early Twentieth-Century Internationalism" by Steven Witt
  • "The Burning Spirit: The Encyclopedic Vision, Wikipedia, and Librarianship" by Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.

Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Most recently, IDEALS opened public access to Library Trends 70 (2), "Family Matters: Mapping Information Phenomena within the Context of the Family."

Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Melissa Wong, editor in chief, at librarytrends@illinois.edu.

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