Hovde, David M. 1952-

PERSONAL: Born October 1, 1952, in Decorah, IA; son of Oivind (an academic librarian) and Harriet (a homemaker; maiden name, Knutson) Hovde; married Marjorie Rush (a professor), May 25, 1991; children: Karla Elizabeth, Lars Jacob Marius. Ethnicity: "Norwegian-American." Education: Luther College, B.A., 1975; Wichita State University, M.A., 1979; Louisiana State University, M.L.S., 1986. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Mennonite.

ADDRESSES: Office—Libraries, HSSE, Purdue University, 504 West State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2058.

CAREER: University of Oklahoma, Norman, social science reference librarian and instructor in bibliography, 1986-89; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, sociology and anthropology bibliographer and reference librarian, 1989-. Mulberry Community Library Friends board of directors, president, 2002-.

MEMBER: Tippecanoe County Historical Association, Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table (president, 2002-04).

WRITINGS:

(With Donald G. Davis and J. Mark Tucker) Reading for Moral Progress: Nineteenth-Century Institutions Promoting Social Change, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL), 1997.

(With Overton Johnson and William H. Winter) Route across the Rocky Mountains, Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN), 2000.

(Editor, with Robert S. Freeman) Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Diversity and Multiculturalism in Libraries, edited by Katherine H. Hill, JAI Press (Greenwich, CT), 1994. Member of editorial board, Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series, 2003-07. Contributor to periodicals, including South Dakota Archaeology, Plains Anthropologist Memoir, Semiotics, Public Libraries, Libraries and Culture, and Libraries and the Academy.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing U.S. Civil War letter collections, with a book expected to result.

SIDELIGHTS: David M. Hovde told CA: "I enjoy researching and writing in areas largely ignored by mainline historians. My primary influences are my father and a few of my college professors. When I do research, I mine the sources with an intense single-mindedness. Yet I always keep an eye open for serendipity. Writing is much the same."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Australian Academic and Research Libraries, September, 1997, B. J. McMullin, review of Reading for Moral Progress: Nineteenth-Century Institutions Promoting Social Change, p. 246.

Library Journal, April 1, 2003, Rhea Joyce Rubin, review of Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach, p. 137.