E. J. Josey - Publications

Publications

The author of more than 400 articles in library, educational, and history journals, he has also authored and edited twelve books in the field of library science which include:

• The Black Librarian in America, Scarecrow Press, 1970. (This was the first book published which dealt exclusively with issues related to Black librarians in the United States.)
• What Black Librarians are Saying, Scarecrow Press, 1972.
• New Dimension for Academic Library Service, Scarecrow Press, 1975.
• A Century of Service: Librarianship in the United States and Canada, co-editor with Sidney Jackson and Elinor Herling, ALA, 1976.
• Opportunities for Minorities in Librarianship,co-editor with Kenneth Peeples, Jr., Scarecrow Press, 1977.
• Handbook of Black Librarianship, co-editor with Ann Allen Shockley, Fisk University Library, Libraries Unlimited, 1977.
• The Information Society: Issues and Answers, Oryx Press, 1978.
• Libraries in the Political Process, Oryx Press, 1980.
• Ethnic Collections, with Marva L. DeLoach, Neal-Schuman Press, 1983.
• Libraries, Coalitions and the Public Good, Neal-Schuman Press, 1987.
• Politics and the Support of Libraries with Dr. Kenneth Shearer, November, 1990.
• The Black Librarian in America Revisited, Scarecrow Press in January 1994.
• Handbook of Black Librarianship. 2nd ed. E. J. Josey and Marva L. DeLoach, eds. Lanham, Md., Scarecrow Press, 2000. (See item 6)

He served as Editor of The Bookmark from 1976–86. In the fall of 1986 he relinquished the editorship of The Bookmark and served as its co-editor for the next five years. Currently, he is contributing editor, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History and serves on the Educational Advisory Committee of the Multicultural Review.