Contributors
- Contributors
Anne-Marie Bertrand is the director of the École national supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB). She has published and edited several books on French municipal libraries and has written a comparative study of public library development in the United States and France during the last half of the twentieth century. She is the author of Les villes et leurs bibliothèques: légitimer et décide: 1945–1985 (Paris: Éditions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1999) and has written on French library practices, librarianship as a career, and library architecture. For several years Bertrand served as the editor of the prestigious Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.
Edward A. Goedeken is humanities bibliographer and collections coordinator at Iowa State University, where he holds the rank of professor of library science. He earned an M.A. in history from Iowa State University, an M.L.S. from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Kansas. He serves as book review editor for the Serials Librarian and writes the biennial review of American library history for Libraries & the Cultural Record. Since 1990 he has contributed a semiannual bibliography for the LHRT Newsletter of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association.
Richard LeComte is currently earning his M.L.I.S. at the University of Alabama, where he serves as a communications specialist in media relations. After receiving his B.A. in English literature from Wesleyan University, LeComte spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor. His research interests include the role of libraries in the intellectual history of the United States and trends in electronic media and library services.
Brendan Luyt is an assistant professor at the School of Communication & Information at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests focus broadly on the social and political landscape of information access. [End Page 485]
