About

Information & Culture: A Journal of History publishes high-quality, peer reviewed articles on the history of information. The journal honors its (45+ year) heritage by continuing to publish in the areas of library, archival, museum, conservation, and information science history. However, the journal's scope has been broadened significantly beyond these areas to include the historical study of any topic that would fall under the purview of any of the modern interdisciplinary schools of information, such as the school in which the journal is edited, the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. In keeping with the spirit of the information schools, the work is human centered and looks at the interactions of people, organizations, and societies with information and technologies. Social and cultural context of information and information technology, viewed from an historical perspective, is at the heart of the journal's interests. Typical papers might focus, among other topics, on the histories of information institutions, academic domains, professions, work, and societies. The intention is to juxtapose papers on a wide variety of topics related to the history of information so as to stimulate connections that have not been made, for example between the research of library historians, historians of computing, labor historians, gender historians, economic historians, business historians, political and diplomatic historians, cultural studies scholars, critical theorists, and science and technology scholars.

Our history

Established in 1966 as The Journal of Library History, it was edited and published at Florida State University until 1976 when its editorship moved to The University of Texas at Austin. In 1988, its title was changed to Libraries & Culture and to Libraries & the Cultural Record in 2006. In 2012 it assumed its present title, Information & Culture: A Journal of History.

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Editor

William Aspray is the Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BA and MA in mathematics from Wesleyan University and a PhD in history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught previously at Harvard, Indiana, Penn, Virginia Tech, and Williams. He has held management positions in the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing, the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, and the Computing Research Association.

Aspray’s research explores the social, historical, and political aspects of information and information technology. The most recent of his books are: Food in the Internet Age (with George Royer and Melissa Ocepek, Springer, 2013), Computer (with Martin Campbell-Kelly, Nathan Ensmenger, and Jeffrey Yost, Westview, 3rd ed., 2013), Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World (ed. with Megan Winget, Scarecrow Press, 2011), Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (ed. with Philip Doty, Scarecrow Press, 2011), Everyday Information (ed. with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press, 2011), Health Informatics (ed. with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press, 2010), and The Internet and American Business (ed. with Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008).

Managing Editor

Nida Kazim is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information. Her areas of interest include women in technology, specifically women in South Asia. She is also interested in feminism in South Asian media and how it informs our understanding of culture, and how it may be used to change our perception of culture. Before she went back to get her PhD, Miss Kazim worked as a Project Manager in the Information Technology department and the Corporate Communications department at COUNTRY Financial Services in Bloomington, IL.

Miss Kazim holds a B.S. and M.S. in Information Technology from Illinois State University.

Editorial Fellow

Sarah Buchanan is a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include archival arrangement and description as work practices, museum archaeology, and digital classics. She is also currently a teaching assistant in the iSchool, helping prepare course curricula in the areas of archives and preservation management and research methods.

Ms. Buchanan earned her M.L.I.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. with Distinction in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Student Editor, Book Reviews

Robin Vickery is a master's student at the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests reside in digital humanities, museum collections, and preservation studies.

Ms. Vickery holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona in both Classics and Italian with a minor in Art History.

Student Volunteers Academic Year 2014-2015

• Rachel Berman
• Lea DeForest
• Christina Gasull
• Ian Goodale
• Caroline Jones
• Virginia Luehrsen
• Melissa Roberts
• Michael Rodney
• Mike Spencer
• Sandra Sweat
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