Contributors
- Contributors
Chris Baggs is a lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. He holds an undergraduate degree in German language and literature from University College, London, where he also earned a master’s degree in library studies. He has a diploma in librarianship from the University of North London and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales. He is active in library history groups in the United Kingdom. His primary research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century British library history, especially working-class libraries, and he has published widely in the field. He is currently examining the topics of women and governance of U.K. public libraries and U.K.-U.S. public library interrelationships pre-1914.
Edward A. Goedeken is the humanities bibliographer at Parks Library, Iowa State University, Ames. In addition to a bachelor’s degree from William Penn College and a master’s from Iowa State University, both in American history, he holds an M.L.S. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Kansas. His interests include biographical studies of librarians and the history of the Iowa State University Library. He is a frequent contributor to Libraries & Culture.
Jing Liao is an assistant librarian at the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art from Smith College and a master’s from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the ALA’s Library History Round Table and the International Relations Committee for the North America Art Libraries Association. Her current research focuses on the history of modern Chinese academic librarianship. An area of special interest concerns the issues of Western influences and Chinese responses in the formative periods (late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) of modern Chinese librarianship.
Jean L. Preer is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University in Indianapolis. She holds an undergraduate degree in history from Swarthmore College and an M.L.S. from the Graduate School of Librarianship at the University of [End Page 217] California at Berkeley, a J.D. from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in American civilization from the same institution. She is the ALA Library History Round Table chair-elect for 2003–4 and is the author of a number of articles on library history, censorship, ethics, legal issues, and race matters. Her research interests combine aspects of American history, libraries, and law with the aim of reaching diverse audiences by publishing in scholarly, legal, professional, and popular journals.
