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Articles in Wntr, 1999 issue of Library Trends

• These Keys … Written Personal Narrative as Family Lore and Folk Object - importance of family folklore to the teaching of library information and science
  by Bernie Sloan
• Introduction - editor's explanation of Library Trends' featured articles about collection and documentation of folklore materials in libraries and information networks
  by Betsy Hearne
• Juan Bobo: A Folkloric Information System - how the controversial work of anthropologist J. Alden Mason, who collected Puerto Rican folklore, underscores the problem of authenticating folklore artifacts
  by Sarai Lastra
• Mapping Culture: Rural Circuit Medical Librarians' Information Systems - interview with librarian Jean Antes who helped to develop medical library services for rural hospitals, physicians and health care workers beginning in 1976
  by Elizabeth Gremore Figa
• A Change of Storyteller: Folktales in Children and Books, from Arbuthnot to Sutherland
  by Janice Del Negro
• Pin the Tales on the Donkay: The Life of Libraries by Don Krummel As Told to Linnea Martin - professional experiences of professor emeritus of library information science and music at Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  by Linnea S. Martin
• Swapping Tales and Stealing Stories: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Folklore in Children's Literature
  by Betsy Hearne
• From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children's Literature
  by Melanie A. Kimball
• Folkloristics of Educational Spaces: Material Lore in Classrooms with and without Walls - study of how space is created and arranged on college campuses
  by Cecelia Merkel
• The Mythology of Information Overload
  by Tonyia J. Tidline
• Paper, Piles, and Computer Files: Folklore of Information Work Environments - analysis of literature that addresses how folklore elements influence current trends in cyberspace information system work places
  by Laura J Neumann
• Structure versus Context: Understanding the Design and Use of Computer Tools in Social Settings - application of folkloristic elements in computer software
  by Kevin Powell