Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: a.m.rodriguez-buckingham@usm.edu
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. The University of Michigan (Library Science)
- MA Harvard University (Anthropology)
- MLS The University of Washington
- BA The University of Washington
EMPLOYMENTCONSULTING
- 1980-2007: School of Library and Information Science, The University of Southern Mississippi.
- 1977-1980: Director and Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John's University, Queens, NY.
- 1965-1976: Various capacities at the Harvard University Library including that of Head Librarian of the Peabody Museum with the rank of Librarian IV.
- 1970-1975: While at Harvard, visiting Lecturer and Adjunct at the State University of New York at Albany and at Simmons College in Boston.
- 1968-1969: On leave from Harvard, visiting Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Puerto Rico.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- "Rediscovering the Roots of an Uncommon Library." Project consultant for the joint grant proposal to the Mississippi Commission for the Humanities by the Yazoo Library Association and B.S. Ricks Memorial Library, Yazoo City, Mississippi: Spring 1985.
- Reader and Evaluator for a grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1996.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- "Projects Prometheus: A Hypertext Instructional Package to Bring Rare Books to Every Classroom University." "Technology Application Competition". Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. December 1996. One of five applicants from the university.
- American Library Association, 1967-
- Standing Committee on Library Education, Country Resource
- Panel for Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, 1980-1997
- Committee on Accreditation, 1979-
- Committee Member, 1979-83
- Visiting Team Member, eight visits, 1980-1991
- United States Department of Education, Accreditation Project, Working Group on Guidelines for Curriculum, American Library Association Representative,1985-1986
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Current Projects
- Database of Type and Illustrations from Sixteenth-Century Book from Europe and America. In progress since 1969.
- From Cave Paintings to the Internet: An Encyclopedia of the History of the Written and Printed Word. Editor in chief. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. Under contract, work in progress.
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TEACHING INTERESTS
- The Colonial Book in Spanish America
- The Semiotics of Book Illustration
- Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
COURSES TAUGHT
- The areas of our profession that deal with its history and with its relation to society.
- LIS 433/533 - Icons of Power: Evolution of the Book
- LIS 631 - History of Libraries
- LIS 636 - Information: The Library and Society
- LIS 638 - Contemporary Publishing
- LIS 646 - Archives and Special Collections
- LIS 647 - Introduction to Archival Organization
- LIS 649 - Preservation of Documentary Materials
- LIS 648 - Archival Practicum (supervises only)
- LIS 666 - Social Science and Humanities Resources
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JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ESSAYSBOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- Encyclopedia of Library History. W. Wiengard and D. Davis, editors. ( New York: Garland Inc., 1994.): 80-81; 492-493. Essays on Peruvian and Bolivian Libraries.
- "Monastic Libraries and Early Printing in Sixteenth Century Spanish America" Libraries and Culture (Spring 1989): 11-27.
- "The First Forty Years of the Book Industry in Sixteenth Century Mexico," in R. Garner and W.B. Taylor, eds., Iberian Colonies, New World Societies: Essays in Memory of Charles Gibson. Limited Deluxe ed., (University Park, PA: at the Pennsylvania State University, 1986): 37-61.
- "The Renaissance in the New World: Printing in Colonial South America. "Explorations in Renaissance Culture 10 (April 1984): 67-79.
- "The Establishment, Production and Equipment of the First Printing Shop in South America." Harvard Library Bulletin 26 (July 1978): 342-354.
- "Notes on the Derivations of the Naja." With Melvin Firestone. Plateau 42 (Spring, 1970): 139-145.
- "First Printings of South America in the Harvard Library." Harvard Library Bulletin 16 (January 1968): 38-48.
- “Change and the Printing Press In Sixteenth Century Spanish-America,” in Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist and Eleonor F. Shavlin, eds. Agent of Change: Twenty Years of Print Culture Studies [Auburn, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press and the Library of Congress, 2007]: 35 p.
- “Antonio Ricardo, First Printer of South America,” in Historiographic Guide to Andean Sources, Center for Research on the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art [University of Oklahoma Press, 2006].
"English Motifs in Mexican Books: A Case of Sixteenth Century Information Transfer," in R. Lewis and J. Williams, eds. Early Images of the New World, (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1993): 287-304. "Antonio Ricardo Impresor Renacentista." Revista de la Universidad Catolica del Peru. (1984, released Fall, 1987): 129-148. "Reference Sources: An International Viewpoint for a Reference Course in American Library Schools," in John Harvey and Frances L. Carroll, Internationalizing Library Education. (Wesport, CN: Greenwood Press, scheduled to be published Spring 1987): 23-58. "Guidelines for Curriculum," in Accreditation: A Way Ahead. With others (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, Committee on Accreditation, 1986): 45-56. "The Arm of Spain: Content Analysis of the Materials Printed in Mexico and Peru in the Sixteenth Century," in A.H. Jordan, ed. Latin American Studies in Europe (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979): 249 - 280. Published version of "The Intellectual Content of the Materials Printed in Mexico and Peru During the 16th Century," paper read at Oxford University,Oxford, England. Proceedings of the Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin-American Library Materials Annual Conference. London, July 16-21, 1979. "The Pressure is Off: An Statistical Study of Higher Education and the Spanish Population in the United States." Proceedings of the Seminar on Library and Information Services for the Spanish Speaking Americans. Arizona's Pre-White House Conference on Library and Information Services, 1978. (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1978): 1-20. "Anthropology Bibliography." International Encyclopedia of Higher Education ed.,A.S. Knowles, 1977, pp. 352 - 359. "Ethnohistorical Archaeology and the De Soto Entrada into the Lower Mississippi Valley" With J.P. Brain and A. Toth. Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology Papers 7, pg. 4 (1974): 231-289. Winner of the John M. Goggin Award for Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology," 1974. Harvard University. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Index to the Subject Headings of the Library of the Peabody Museum. Rev. ed. (Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1971) 237p. Compiler-Editor. BOOK REVIEWSINVITED FORMAL LETTERS |
- American Reference Books Annual ARBA) 1980-83 reviewed an average of one book per month. More information available upon request.
- Alfredo López. Doña Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1987. Viii +178 pp. Notes and Bibliography.$25 (cloth), ISBN 0-89608-258-X; 10.00 (paper), ISBN 0-89608-257-1. Reviewed by Antonio Rodríguez-Buckingham & Sue Leister Rodíguez, The University of Southern Mississippi Published by H-LatAm (July, 1996). Available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10440846691554.
- Nelson Rivera. Visual Artists and the Puerto Rican Performing Arts, 1950-1990: The Works of Jack and Irene Delano, Antonio Martorell, Jaime Suárez,and Oscar Mestey-Villamil. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1997. Xvii +232 pp. Notes, bibliography and photographs. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8204-2620-2620-2. Reviewed by Antonio Rodríguez-Buckingham and Sue Leister Rodíguez, University of Southern Mississippi. Published by H-LatAm (March, 1996) Available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=7424891541929.
REPORTS OF COMPLETED RESEARCH
- "Colonial Latin American Libraries and the Humanistic Tradition." Paper read at The Library History Group of the Library Association, Seminar on Libraries at Times of Cultural Change,' University of Sussex at Brighton, England: August 22-24, 1987. The seminar was conducted in connection with the 1987 annual meetings of IFLA.
- "The Development of Mexican and Peruvian Bookmaking: The Book as an Artifact. "Paper read at The Book in the Americas, A Conference on the Role of Books in the Development of Colonial Latin American Society and Culture. John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI: June 18-21,1987.
- "Information Society and History." Paper read at Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary Society, Theta Kappa Chapter, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS: October 22, 1984.
- "Typography and History in Sixteenth Century South America." Paper read at South-Central Renaissance Annual Conference. Northwestern Louisiana State University, Natchitoches, LA: April 12-14, 1984.
- "The Book as Artifact," Two-month research Fellowship awarded by the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence: RI, August, 1985.
- "The European Renaissance and the Printing Presses of Hispanic America."Paper read at Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Conference. Concorida Seminary and Center for Reformation Research, Saint Louis, Missouri: October 28 - 30, 1982.
- "Printing Rare Books from Microfilms," The University of Southern Mississippi, Grant awarded by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, 1996-97.
- "The Semiotics of the Printed Book," The University of Southern Mississippi, Grant awarded by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, 1991-93.
- "Motifs and Designs: A Case Study of the Semiotics of Sixteenth Century Printed Books." Research Fellowship to work in Seville, Spain. Six month research grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ohio State University, and the School of Hispanic American Studies to be conducted in Seville, May-October, 1991.
- "A Research Guide to Sixteenth Century Mexican and Peruvian Imprints in United States Libraries." Summer Stipend Award, The National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded June-August, 1987. One of three proposals selected by a university committee and sent to the NEH with the endorsement of the university.
- "Early Colonial Books from Mexico and Peru in the John Carter Brown Library."Research Fellowship, The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI: November 1985-February 1986.
- "Bookmaking Technology in the Spanish American Colonies," Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through the Latin American Library, Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: 1983.
- "The Private Presses in the State of Mississippi," Office of Research and Development, (now Office of Research and Sponsored Programs) The University of Southern Mississippi, Spring, 1983.
- "Printing in the Spanish American Colonies: 1539-1600, " Two-month research fellowship awarded by The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, July, 198.
