School of Information Associate Professor Ciaran B. Trace has been named editor of the iSchool's quarterly publication, Information & Culture: A Journal of History.
The journal examines the role of information from a historical perspective.
"Scholarship in information history allows the information science community to understand its roots, and in pulling out key patterns and themes helps us make better sense of today’s information age," Trace said. "With a focus on information history writ large, the journal also allows for new connections to be made between scholars in various academic disciplines."
Information & Culture is home to historians of computing, libraries, labor, gender, economics, business, politics, diplomacy and cultural studies, as well as critical theorists and science and technology scholars, she said.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles about the interactions of people, organizations and societies with information and technology. Its areas of focus include libraries, archives, museums, conservation, information science history, and other topics that fall within the purview of modern information schools. Established in 1966 as The Journal of Library History, the publication’s editorship moved to UT-Austin in 1976. It assumed its current title in 2012.
Trace’s work explores what constitutes a literate society and the role that recorded information plays in creating and sustaining literate environments, both personal and professional. She replaces outgoing editor William Aspray, who has assumed the title of advisory editor.