David Stoker - List of Publications

Contents

Books

1	William Sessions and David Stoker, The first printers in Norwich, (York: Ebor Press, 1987), 106p.
2	The correspondence of the reverend Francis Blomefield 1705-1752 , edited and with an introduction by David Stoker, (The Norfolk Record Society and the Bibliographical Society, 1992), 276p.

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Chapters in Books

1	'BBC Data as an information provider and publisher', in International aspects of reference work, edited by William Katz, (New York: Haworth Press, 1987), 161-76. (A reprint of my article in The Reference Librarian, 17, (1987).)
2.	'Library support for features beyond news and current affairs: an account of the BBC Reference Library service', in Information sources to the press and broadcast media, edited by Selwyn Eagle, (London: Bowker-Saur,1991), 78-96.
3.	'The ill-gotten library of 'Honest' Tom Martin', in Property of a gentleman: the formation, organisation, and dispersal of the private library 1620-1920 , edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1991), 90-111.
4.	'Distance and Open Learning Courses in Library and Information Studies', in The Education of Library and Information Professionals in the United Kingdom, edited by Judith Elkin, and Tom Wilson (Maunsell, 1997), 175-198.
5.	'The English country book trades in 1784-5' in The human face of the book trade: print culture and its creators, edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay, (St. Paul's Bibliographies/OakKnoll, 1999), 13-27.
6.	'Printing at the Red Well: an early Norwich press through the eyes of contemporaries' in The mighty engine: the printing press at work, edited by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay, (St. Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll, 2000), 29-38.
7.	'Freeman and Susanna Collins and the spread of English provincial printing', in Light on the book trade: essays in honour of Peter Isaac, edited by Barry McKay John Hinks, and Maureen Bell, (St. Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll, British Library, 2004), 27-36.
8.	'Norwich "publishing" in the seventeenth century', Locations of Book Production and Distribution in Britain since 1500, edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, (St. Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll, British Library, 2005), 31-46.
9	'Norwich: a case study of local library provision', The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol. II., 1640-1850, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 264-74.
10.	"To all booksellers, country chapmen and others: how the rural population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials (1570-1800)", Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade, edited by Giles Mandelbrote, Robin Myers and Michael Harris (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll, British Library, 2007, 107-136.

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Articles in Refereed Journals

1	'The early history of papermaking in Norfolk', Norfolk Archaeology , 36, (1976), 241-252.
2	'The establishment of printing in Norwich: causes and effects 1660-1760', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 7, (1977), 94-111.
3	'An eighteenth century map piracy', Norfolk Archaeology, 37, (1978), 123-126.
4	'The regulation of the book trade in Norwich 1500-1800', Publishing History, 5, (1979), 127-141.
5	'Doctor Collinges and the revival of the Norwich City Library 1657-1664', Library History, 5, (1980), 73-84.
6	'Anthony de Solempne: attributions to his press', The Library - Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 6, ser. 3, (1981), 17-32.
7	'The Norwich book trades before 1800 - a biographical directory', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, VIII, (1981), 79-125.
8	'BBC Data as an information provider and publisher', Reference Librarian , 17, (1987), 161-176.
9	'The genesis of 'Collectanea Cantabrigiensia', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, IX, (1989), 372-380.
10	'Mr Parkin's magpie, the other Mr Whittingham, and the fate of Great Yarmouth', The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, XII, (1990), 121-30.
11	'Parson Russell's history of Postwick', Norfolk Archaeology, XLI, (1990/1), 65-7.
12	'Prosperity and success in the English provincial book trade during the eighteenth century', Publishing History, XXX, (1991), 1-58.
13	'Disposing of George Thomason's intractable legacy 1664-1762', The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, XIV, (1992), 337-356.
14	'Greek tragedy with a happy ending: the publication of Robert Potter's editions of Æschylus, Euripides and Sophocles', Studies in Bibliography, XLVI, (1993), 282-302.
15	'Robert Potter's attack on Dr Johnson', The British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, XVI, (1993), 179-183.
16	'Benjamin Mackerell, antiquary, librarian, and plagiarist', Norfolk Archaeology, XLII, (1993/4), 1-12.
17	'Innumerable letters of good consequence in history: the discovery and first publication of the Paston Letters', The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, XVII, (1995), 107-155.
18	'John Norgate: the autobiography of a Stuart stationer and bookbinder', The Book Collector, XLIV, (1995), 367-70.
19	'The Grammarians' Battleground: controversies surrounding the publication of John Holmes' Greek Grammar', Paradigm: the Journal of the Textbook Colloquium, 17, (1995), 1-14.
20	'The Eighteenth-century short title catalogue and provincial imprints', Journal of the Printing Historical Society, XXIV, 1995. 9-35.
21	'Undergraduate LIS Education at the University of Wales Aberystwyth' Education for Information, 15, (1997), 125-136.
22	'The NewsAgent for Libraries electronic current awareness services for information professionals - extracting useful metadata from electronic records', Michael Keen, Jane Secker and David Stoker, International journal of Electronic Library Research, I, (1997), 425-33.
23	‘Surveying decrepit Welsh cathedrals, the publication of Browne Willis's accounts of St David's and Llandaff’, Y Llyfr yng nghymru/Welsh book studies, 3, (2000), 7-32.
24	‘Consistency and change: issues for LIS educators in the first decade of the twenty-first century’, Education for Information, 18, (2000), 115-122.
25	‘A study of the use of electronic information systems by higher education students in the UK’, Chris Armstrong, Roger Fenton, Ray Lonsdale, David Stoker, Rhian Thomas and Christine Urquhart, Program, 35, (2001), 241-262.
26	'William Proctor, Nathaniel Ponder and the financing of The Pilgrim's Progress', The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 7th series, IV, (2003), 64-9.
27	'Francis Blomefield as a historian of Norfolk', Norfolk Archaeology, LIII, (2004). 181-201.
28	'Mr Baldwin's sermon and the Norwich printers', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, XIII, (2004), 33-43.
29	'Francis Blomefield as a historian of Norwich', Norfolk Archaeology, LIV (2005). 387-405.
30	'Francis Burges' "Observations on printing" 1701: a reconstruction of the text', The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society , 7th series, VI, (2005), 161-177.
31	'William Wotton's exile and redemption:', a study of the origins and publication of the "Leges Wallicae', Y Llyfr yng nghymru/Welsh book studies, 7 (2006), 7-106..
32	‘Ellenor Fenn as “Mrs Teachwell” and “Mrs Lovechild”: a pioneer late eighteenth century children’s writer, educator and philanthropist’, Princeton Library Chronicle, LXVIII, (2007), 816-848.
33	'William Wotton at Carmarthen', Carmarthenshire antiquary, XLIV, (2008), 17-27.
34	'Establishing Lady Fenn's canon', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 103: 1, (2009), 43-72.

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Editorials for the Journal of Librarianship & Information Science

(I was editor of this Journal for the issues for 1991-2000)

1	'Quo JOLIS?: the aims of the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science', XXIII, (March 1991), 5-8.
2	'Who benefits from more academic journals?', XXIII, (June 1991), 65-7.
3	'The case of the disappearing library books', XXIII. (September 1991), 121-4.
4	'The coming of age of media librarianship in the UK', XXIII. (December 1991), 173-5.
5	'The development of academic libraries in Indonesia', XXIV. (March 1992), 5-8.
6	'Libraries at bursting point', XXIV, (June 1992), 67-70.
7	'Times of change in library and information science education', XXIV, (September 1992), 123-6.
8	'The electronic library: myth or virtual reality?' XXIV, (December 1992), 183-186.
9	'Co-operation or co-ordination? The case for a Library and Information Commission, ', XXV, (March 1993), 3-5.
10	'Preserving our newspaper heritage', XXV, (September 1993), 113-117.
11	'Do-it-yourself in the library', XXV, (December 1993), 171-173.
12	'Public libraries and local government reorganization', XXVI, (March 1994), 5-8.
13	'From Parry to Follett: the changing world of the university librarian', XXVI, (June 1994), 51-53.
14	'Librarians and the Internet', XXVI, (September 1994), 117-20.
15	'Only burning people is worse than burning books', XXVI, (December 1994), 177-179.
16	'Information & library studies at a distance', XXVII, (March 1995),3-5.
17	'Networking down-under', XXVII, (June 1995), 63-65.
18	'Who assesses the assessors?', XXVIII, (March 1996), 3-6.
19	'Rebuilding the public library service', XXVII, (June 1996), 67-70.
20	'Planning disasters for the twenty-first century', XXVIII, (September 1996), 129-131
21	'A quarter century of progress in library and information education', XXVII, (December 1996), 187-190.
22	'Tangible deposits', XXVIII, (June 1997), 65-68.
23	'Computer cataloguing in retrospect', XXVIII, (December 1997), 175-178.
24	'A strategy for LIS research in the next century', XXVIII, (March 1998).
25	'Commercial pressures on electronic publishing', XXVIII, (June 1998), 83-6.
26	'Where does the British Library go from St Pancras', XXVIII, (September1998), 155-7
27	'Filtering out minorities', XXVIX, (March 1999), 3-6.
28	'Wanted - an evidence based knowledge management librarian' XXIX, (June1999), 67-69.
29	'Should newspaper preservation be a lottery?' XXIX, (September 1999), 131-134.
30	'The benefits and curses of electronic mail', XXIX, (December, 1999), 185-187.
31	‘The new DNB and the future of the printed reference work’, XXX, (March 2000), 1-3.
32	‘Social exclusion, ‘joined-up government’, public libraries and the Internet’, XXXI, (June 2000), 53-5.
33	‘An eventful decade’, XXXI, (December 2000), 163-166.

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Articles in non-refereed Academic and Professional Journals

1.	Edward Cave and the Norwich Post', University of East Anglia Bulletin, VII, (1975), 1-5.
2.	'Setting up a private press in eighteenth century Norfolk', Albion , VI, (1982), 10-14.
3.	'Blomefield's History of Norfolk', Factotum: Newsletter of the XVIII century STC, XXVI, (1988), 17-22.
4.	'The tailor of Diss: sodomy and murder in a Norfolk market town', Factotum: Newsletter of the XVIII century STC, XXXI, (1990), 18-21.
5.	'Options for the automation of newspaper libraries', Deadline - Association of UK Media Librarians, V, (1991), 1-6.
6.	‘Broadsheet hopping' [The advent of CD-ROM newspapers], Times Higher Education Supplement Information Technology Supplement, (14 June 1991), II.
7.	'The peripatetic woodpecker: or, more tales from Hoffman, Factotum: Newsletter of the XVIII century STC, (1995), 14-18.
8.	'The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade 1550-1990', Antiquarian Book Monthly, 272 (March 1997), 16-7.
9.	'The JISC Usage Surveys: Trends in Electronic Information Services (JUSTEIS) Project - Supply and Demand in Higher Education', by Armstrong, C.; Barker, A.; Everitt, J.; Fenton, R.; Lonsdale, R.; Stoker, D.; Thomas, R.; Urquhart, C. Library and Information Briefings (2001) 106/107,
10.	‘School libraries in the People’s Republic of China, reflections of an overseas visitor’, School Librarian¸ 50, (Spring 2002), 7-8.
11..	'An early list of provincial booksellers', Quadrat, 16 (June, 2002), 10-13.
12.	'Self flagellation and Self destruction in eighteenth century Norwich', Quadrat, 19, (2005), 18-23.
13.	‘Cobwebs to catch flies: a bibliographical case study’, Newsletter of the Children’s Book History Society,(2007) (in the press).

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Encyclopaedia articles

1.	Dictionary of literary biography, Volume 184 - Nineteenth-Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers, edited by William Baker & Kenneth Womack. Gale Research, 1997.
	i. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, pp. 69-80 ii. William Thomas Lowndes, pp. 265-271
2.	Dictionary of literary biography, Volume 201, Twentieth Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers, edited by William Baker & Kenneth Womack, Gale Research, 1999.
	i. Theodore Besterman, pp. 20-30 ii. Arundell Esdaile, pp. 75-801
3.	Dictionary of literary biography, Volume 213, Pre-Nineteeth Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers, edited by William Baker & Kenneth Womack, Gale Research, 1999.
	i. Thomas Martin, pp. 245-250 ii. Thomas Tanner, pp. 336-343 iii. George Thomason, pp. 344-349

4	Oxford dictionary of national biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
	Richard Atkyns Richard Beatniffe Francis Blomefield William Bonny Francis Burges Thomas Carnan William Chase Robert Clavell Henry Crossgrove Dudley Digges	Ellenor Fenn John Fenn John Frere Edward Harley Richard Hollingworth John Holmes John Jeffery John Kirkpatrick Benjamin Mackerell Thomas Martin	Francis Noble Anthony Norris Charles Parkin John Payne Robert Potter Robert Raikes George Thomason William Whittingham William Wotton
5.	Dictionary of British classicists, edited by Robert Todd, Thoemmes Press, 2004.
	i. John Holmes ii. Samuel Parr iii. Robert Potter
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Published Conference Proceedings

1.	'The early booksellers and printers of Kings Lynn', in Studies in the provincial book trade of England, Scotland, and Wales before 1900: papers presented to the British Book Trade Index Seventh Annual Seminar, Aberystwyth, 1989, edited by David Stoker (Aberystwyth: University of Wales / British Book Trade Index, 1990), 76-105.
2.	'The emergence of regional book distribution networks in East Anglia', in Illustration processes & binding in the provinces: aspects of the provincial book trade in south-east England: papers presented to the British Book Trade Index Ninth Annual Seminar, Reading, 1991, edited by Michael Perkin (University of Reading, Department of Typography / British Book Trade Index, 1993), 60-1.
3.	'An academic library journal in a commercial environment: an account of the editorial policies and practices of the Journal of Librarianship & Information Science 1991-1993', in Proceedings of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Annual Conference, Barcelona, August 1993.
4.	'The evaluation of network information sources', by David Stoker and Alison Cooke, in Helal, A & Weiss, J. Information Superhighway: the role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries, 17th International Essen Symposium, University of Essen, University of Essen, 1995, 287-312.
5.	'Using the Internet to co-ordinate the provision of agricultural information sources in the U.K.', by David Stoker and Alison Cooke, in Communicating agricultural information in remote places, Quarterly Bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists, XLI, 2, 1996, 196-200.
6.	'The design and content of an electronic current awareness service for information professionals', David Stoker & Jane Secker, De Montfort University, Electronic Libraries and Visual Information Research 'Elvira' Conference, May 1997, 57-64.
7.	'The attitudes of LIS professionals to current awareness services (results of the User Needs Assessment for the Newsagent eLib Project)', by Jane Secker, David Stoker and Lucy Tedd. Library & Information Studies Research and Professional Practice: Proceedings of the 2nd British-Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies. Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, March 1997. 249-258 .
8.	‘Digital libraries: goals, creation, preservation, Biblioteques digitals I deposits nacionals de recursos digitials, Seminara organitzat per l’Escola Universitaria de Biblioteconomia i Documentazio de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2000, 15-24.
9.	‘UK Digital Library developments’, Biblioteques digitalsI deposits nacionals de recursos digitials, Seminara organitzat per l’Escola Universitaria de Biblioteconomiai Documentazio de la Universitat de Barcelona , 2000, 115-124.
10.	"The English provincial book trade and the first Stamp Acts, 1693-1718", Branches of literature and music: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Seminar on the History of the Provincial Book Trade held in Bristol, 11-13 July 1995, edited by M.T. Richardson University of Bristol, 2000,

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Technical product evaluations

1 .	'Cumulative Book Index' [an evaluation], in CD-ROM products the evaluative guide Volume 1, edited by C.J. Armstrong & J.A. Large, (Aldershot: Gower, 1990), 75-91.
2 .	'Ulrich's Plus' [an evaluation], in CD-ROM products the evaluative guide Volume 1, edited by C.J. Armstrong & J.A. Large, (Aldershot: Gower, 1990), 341-58.
3.	'Facts on File' [an evaluation], in CD-ROM products the evaluative guide Volume 2, edited by C.J. Armstrong & J.A. Large, (Aldershot: Gower, 1991), 139-156.
4.	'UK newspapers a comparative review', in CD-ROM products the evaluative guide, Volume 3, edited by C.J. Armstrong & J.A. Large, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1992), 173-200.
5.	'The Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue on CD-ROM' [an evaluation], in CD-ROM products the evaluative guide, Volume 4, edited by C.J. Armstrong & J.A. Large, (Aldershot: Information Automation & Ashgate, 1993), 28-35.

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Research Reports

David Stoker & Jane Secker, 'NewsAgent for Libraries - User Needs Assessment: Report of the Focus Group Interviews and E-mail questionnaire', Department of Information & Library Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, September 1996. 50p.

C.J. Armstrong, R.E. Lonsdale, D.A. Stoker & C. J. Urquhart, JUSTEIS – JISC usage surveys: trends in electronic information services – Strand A: A general survey of end users of all electronic information services – Strand C: A general survey of electronic information services provision, Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth and Centre for Information Quality Management, August 2000.

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Published Course Materials

1.	Information Technology , (Module No. IL24210, BSc Econ Information & Library Studies), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Open Learning Unit, 1993. 90p. 2nd revised edition 1995. 3^rd ed. with T.C. Gillison, 2000 4th ed. with T.C. Gillison, 2004
2.	Information Services , (Module No. IL24210, BSc Econ Information & Library Studies), Open Learning Course Unit, 1995. 2nd revised edition 2000.
3.	David Stoker, Susan Mends, Chris Baggs and D. Hywel Roberts, Information sources and services, (Module ILM 7920, MSc Econ Information and Library Studies by Distance Learning), Open Learning Course Unit, 1999.

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Training Videos

1.	Blaise Search , (Aberystwyth: College of Librarianship, Wales, 1987) . (25 minutes duration).
2.	Profile Information Search, (Aberystwyth: College of Librarianship, Wales, 1988). (18 minutes duration).

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Other publications and contributions to publications

A. Bibliographies and contributions to bibliographies

1.	‘Bibliography’in, Julian and her Norwich, Julian of Norwich Celebration Committee, 1973, 53-7.
2.	Rough register of Norfolk imprints, 1568-1800, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1991
3.	600 biographical records relating to Norfolk booksellers and printers and approximately 400 relating to Berkshire to the British Book Trade Index, (a co-operative computer database aimed at recording the names of all individuals at work in Britain before 1850).

B. Book and CD-ROM reviews

1.	[Review of P.J. Taylor, Information guides, 1978], Library Review, Summer1979, 108.
2.	[Review of Tom Whitehall, Practical current awareness services, 1986], Education for Information, 6. 1988, pp.94-5.
3.	[Review of Bernard Pasqualini, Dollars and sense, 1987], Education for Information, 7, 1989. pp. 290-1,
4.	[Review of David Linton and Ray Boston, The newspaper press in Britain, 1987], Business Archives, 1989.
5.	‘Innumerable biographies’, [Review of Bibliography of biography], The Times Higher, 13 November 1992.
6.	[Review of Connie Van Fleet & Danny Wallace A service profession, a service commitment], The International Journal of Information & Library Research, 1993.
7.	[Review of The Eighteenth Century Short-title Catalogue on CD-ROM ], Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 25 March 1993.
8.	[Review of Nick Moore and Jane Steele, Information intensive Britain], Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, June 1993
9.	‘Bibliographic apparatus’, [Review of CD-ROMs in print], The Times Higher, 25 June 1993.
10.	[Review of Marc Fresko and Lynne Brindley, Optical disc technology and European libraries ], Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 25 December 1993.
11.	[Review of David McKitterick, A history of Cambridge University Press, Volume 1], Publishing Research Quarterly, 11, 1995, pp. 78-9.
12.	[Review of Peter J. Seddon, A football compendium, 1995], Library Association Record , December 1995, p.664.
13.	[Review of H.-D. Daniel, Guardians of science], Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, XXVII, 1995, pp.116-7.
14.	‘FT Profile and Chadwyck-Healey offer an information freeway’, Information World Review, 106 September 1995. pp.21-2.
15.	[Review of The serials management handbook], Library Association Record, 2000
16.	[Review of Yitai, Gong and Gorman, G.E. Libraries and information services in China, 2000] Library Association Record, May 2001, p.303.
17.	[Review of Russell, Rosemary Making sense of standards and technologies for serials management, 2000] Library Association Record, May 2001, p.304.
18.	[Review of Tilley, Joy A catalogue of the donations made to Norwich City Library 1608-1656, 2000] , Sharp News 11, 1 Winter 2001-2, p.14.
19.	[Review of Hellinga,Lotte The scholar and the database, 2001], Library History 18, July 2002, p.145-6.
20.	Journals of the century -- at least in the US. [a review of Journals of the century, edited Tony Sankus, 2002], Library & Information Update, June 2003, Vol. 2 Issue 6, p59.
21.	[Review of Printing and the book in Manchester 1700-1850, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 2001]
22.	[Review of Barry Taylor, Foreign-language printing in London 1500-1900, 2003], Library History, July 2004, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p151-152.
23.	[Review of Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote,The London Book Trade: topographies of print in the metropolis from the sixteenth century, 2003
24.	A model of academic access [A Review of Roger, C. Schonfield, JSTOR: a history, 2003]. Library & Information Update, June 2004, Vol. 3 Issue 6, p47.
25.	Learning to collect: the library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) at Blickling Hall. Library History, March 2005, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p74-75.
26.	The library of Anthony Wood. Library History, March 2005, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p70-71.
27.	Up-to-date explanation of terms. Library & Information Update, December 2006, Vol. 5 Issue 12, p45.
28.	Who founded the Portico? Library & Information Update, March 2008, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p45.

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C. Miscellaneous journalism

I have published feature-length articles in the following newspapers, newsletters and magazines:

The US 2^nd Air Division Association Newsletter

New Library World

The Eastern Daily Press,

The Reading Chronicle,

She,

as well as shorter pieces in a range of professional, educational, bibliographical and other publications.

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Updated 24 October 2008