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van der Wateren, Jan. "National Library Provision for Art in the United Kingdom: The Role of the National Art Library." Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues 6, no. 3 (December 1994): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095574909400600303.
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From its beginnings in 1836 as the library of the Government School of Design, the National Art Library (NAL) in the UK was intended to have an impact on design in the country. After the Great Exhibition of 1851 it former part of what was to become known as the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A). By the 1850s it had already adopted the title of National Art Library, although it was called the V & A Museum Library between 1908 and 1985. By 1853 collections aimed to cover the arts and trades comprehensively, and by 1869 the NAL aimed also at comprehensive access to individual objects created in the course of history. By 1852, the library was open to all, although a charge was made at first. Various forms of subject indexing have been used; from 1877 to 1895 subject lists were prepared for internal use and sold to the public, and from 1869 to 1889 a remarkable Universal catalogue of books on art was produced. The present mission statement of the NAL focuses on collecting, documenting and making available information on the history and practice of art, craft and design, and the library aims its services at both the national and international community. However, its great 19th century contribution to published subject control of art materials has been almost completely absent in the 20th century. During 1994 the NAL will contribute records to the British Library (BL) Conspectus database, though there is little formal cooperation between the two libraries. As a specialist library it can organize its collections and index them in ways that are impossible for a comprehensive library such as the BL, and it therefore has an important part to play in the national library scene.
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Beckett, J. V. "Libraries and the Victoria County History." Library & Information History 25, no. 4 (December 2009): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175834809x12489648790016.
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Cavanagh, Michael John. "Are community-managed libraries effective?" Library Management 38, no. 4/5 (June 13, 2017): 226–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-11-2016-0081.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of community-managed libraries (CMLs) in England. It traces their history and considers the evidence base in respect of their effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach Through quantitative research (web surveys) with volunteers and chief librarians, the study establishes: the range of services being delivered; the perceived need for and extent of training given to volunteers; the criteria through which public library effectiveness can be measured, and the extent to which CMLs are able to deliver against these criteria. Findings The study found widespread variation in the range of services offered and the extent of training received. Further, it found significant differences of opinion and priorities between the research groups in respect of the relative importance of various effectiveness criteria and the ability of CMLs to deliver against these criteria. The evidence from this study points to a fragmented and inconsistent network of volunteer delivered libraries. A key reason is the variation in approach and level of support from local authorities. The paper concludes that the lack of national standards and consistently applied professional advice could be contributing to this variation and points to the Welsh Public Libraries approach, based on their standards framework, as a model that could be replicated. Originality/value These findings have implications for policy makers in respect of the case made for the reintroduction of a standard/quality framework to reduce service variability. The findings will also be of value to local authorities that are considering implementing a community-managed library model.
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Overberg, Henk. "Ethnic minority community life: Dutch clubs in Victoria." Journal of Intercultural Studies 7, no. 1 (January 1986): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.1986.9963289.
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Yusuf, Pawit M., and Encang Saepuddin. "Practical values of Village Libraries and Community Libraries in West Java." Record and Library Journal 3, no. 2 (January 13, 2018): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/rlj.v3-i2.2017.172-188.
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The existence of the village library has a lot of value for the benefit of people's lives, however, the values in question still needs to be expressed more real in people's lives. The purpose of this study is to assess the values held by the village library and the public library in the village in West Java. Social values, the value of life, culture, history, communication and information, education, religion, preservation, symbol of civilization, archives, documentation, the value of continuity of knowledge between generations, and other values inherent to the function of the village library, are some examples of studies the focus of this study. The method used is the direct observation of village libraries and library communities in West Java. There are 13 village libraries sampled in this study. The results of this research illustrates that the presence of libraries in the villages received a positive response from the community at large. Libraries in the village has a lot of value benefits for many aspects of human life in the village. Some of these include social value, historical value, the value of documentation, and other values prevailing in society.
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Wagner, Robin. "What Munn Missed: The Queensland Schools of Arts." Queensland Review 20, no. 2 (October 30, 2013): 187–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.20.
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American Librarian Ralph Munn's historic tour of Australian libraries in 1934 is well documented. Along with Ernest Pitt, Chief Librarian of the State Library of Victoria, he spent nearly ten weeks travelling from Sydney and back again, visiting libraries in all the state capitals and many regional towns throughout the country. Munn's trip was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was then, through its Dominions fund, turning attention to philanthropic opportunities in the Antipodes. The resulting report, Australian Libraries: A Survey of Conditions and Suggestions for their Improvement (commonly referred to as the Munn–Pitt Report) is often credited with initiating the public library movement in Australia.
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Smirnov, Yury. "Cloud computing. The history and impact on libraries’ future." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2016-6-62-73.
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The background of cloud computing, key characteristics and terminology problems are discussed; deployment models and cloud services are introduced; the positive features and drawbacks are described. Cloud technologies impact on libraries and community at large is emphasized.
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Williams, Wiley J. "History of North Carolina Libraries and Librarianship: A Bibliography, Part III." North Carolina Libraries 62, no. 3 (January 19, 2009): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v62i3.123.
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This is Part III of a four-part bibliography. It includes sources of library history of North Carolina colleges, universities, and community colleges, as well as general sources on North Carolina and United States library history. Part I, which was published in the Spring 2004 issue of North Carolina Libraries, included sources of library history of North Carolina public libraries in general, and histories of publiclibraries in Alamance through Guilford counties. Part II, which was published in the Summer 2004 issue, included the histories of public libraries in Halifax through Yadkin counties.
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Williams, Wiley J. "History of North Carolina Libraries and Librarianship: A Bibliography, Part IV." North Carolina Libraries 62, no. 4 (January 10, 2009): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v62i4.110.
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This is the final installment of a four-part bibliography that covers North Carolina and United States archives and manuscript collections; personal papers of notable N.C. librarians and library educators; and sources on N.C. and U.S. librarians and library benefactors, public documents, and special collections and private libraries. Part I, which was published in the Spring 2004 issue of North Carolina Libraries, included sources of library history of N.C. public libraries in general, and histories of public libraries in Alamance through Guilford counties. Part II, which was published in the Summer 2004 issue, included the histories of public libraries in Halifax through Yadkin counties. Part III, which was published in the Fall 2004 issue, included sources of library history of N.C. colleges, universities, and community colleges, as well as general sources on N.C. and U.S. library history.
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Atkinson, Sue, and Shurlee Swain. "A network of support: mothering across the Koorie community in Victoria, Australia." Women's History Review 8, no. 2 (June 1999): 219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612029900200208.
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Kleinberg, Jay. "A Network of Support: mothering across the Koorie community in Victoria, Australia." Women's History Review 8, no. 2 (June 1, 1999): 387–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612029900200417.
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Murray, Jennifer. "Community engagement: Leveraging library online tools to support local historical organizations." College & Research Libraries News 81, no. 6 (June 11, 2020): 298. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.81.6.298.
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Among Floridians, Jacksonville is known as the “First Coast.” It is a reference to the fact that Northeast Florida has some of the oldest European settlements in North America. The numerous local historical organizations are forever challenged to preserve and share the rich history of “all that is Jacksonville–including early settlers, 19th- and 20th-century urban planning and architecture, civil rights and Black history, city governance, and our national parks heritage.” They often do not have the resources needed, but local academic libraries are rich in resources and tools that can benefit organizations outside the library and help bring more awareness to the organizations and the collections they have. As the role of academic libraries continues to evolve with technological changes, libraries are continuously looking for ways to reinvent themselves and expand their role within their university and throughout the greater community.
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Battalova, Sania. "Kyrgyz Libraries Community – Co-Operation for Development: New Challenges and New Approaches." Bilgi Dünyası 13, no. 1 (April 30, 2012): 257–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15612/bd.2012.178.
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“Kyrgyz Libraries Information Consortium”, one of the largest library associations in the country, celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Consortium was established in 2002 and through membership, it comprises more than 400 libraries within Kyrgyzstan, including the National Library, the State Patent and Technical Library, the Library of the Academy of Science, and many other academic and regional libraries. The Consortium’s creation was an answer to the challenges the country faced: lack of information, very low level of technological development, no budget for collection development, lack of cooperation and collaboration between libraries in the country as well as with the international library community.
The history and development of the Consortium, the Consortium mission, its goals, its main initiatives and the strategic directions to be taken are presented in the article. The importance of library development and how libraries in developed countries established strong and effective organizations are reviewed and analyzed here. This paper also presents the challenges and approaches that must be taken for future development of libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
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Levine, Jill. "Approaches to Indigenous Community History: Mapping the Cemetery at Soowahlie First Nation." Graduate History Review 9, no. 1 (September 23, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ghr91202019352.
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This paper is a result of my work at the Ethnohistory Field School at the University of Victoria in 2019. I partnered with Soowahlie First Nation who asked the Field School to produce an updated map of the cemetery on their reserve. The work outlines what I found to be the most useful and relevant practices for researching and mapping Stó:lō community cemeteries. The paper also includes a narrative history of the cemetery itself and its role in the community.
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Lenstra, Noah, and Jenny Carlos. "Public Libraries and Walkable Neighborhoods." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 10 (May 20, 2019): 1780. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101780.
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Public libraries constitute a ubiquitous social infrastructure found in nearly every community in the United States and Canada. The hypothesis of this study is that public libraries can be understood as important supports of walking in neighborhoods, not only as walkable destinations, but also as providers of programs that increase walking in communities. Recent work by public health scholars has analyzed how libraries contribute to community health. This particular topic has not previously been researched. As such, a qualitative, exploratory approach guides this study. Grounded theory techniques are used in a content analysis of a corpus of 94 online articles documenting this phenomenon. Results show that across North America public librarians endeavor to support walking through programs oriented around stories, books, and local history, as well as through walking groups and community partnerships. While this exploratory study has many limitations, it does set the stage for future, more rigorous research on the contributions public libraries and public librarians make to walking in neighborhoods. The principal conclusion of this study is that additional research is needed to comprehensively understand the intersection between public librarianship and public health.
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Darian-Smith, Kate, and Nikki Henningham. "Site, school, community." History of Education Review 43, no. 2 (September 30, 2014): 152–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-03-2014-0018.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of vocational education for girls, focusing on how curriculum and pedagogy developed to accommodate changing expectations of the role of women in the workplace and the home in mid-twentieth century Australia. As well as describing how pedagogical changes were implemented through curriculum, it examines the way a modern approach to girls’ education was reflected in the built environment of the school site and through its interactions with its changing community. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a case study approach, focusing on the example of the J.H. Boyd Domestic College which functioned as a single-sex school for girls from 1932 until its closure in 1985. Oral history testimony, private archives, photographs and government school records provide the material from which an understanding of the school is reconstructed. Findings – This detailed examination of the history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College highlights the highly integrated nature of the school's environment with the surrounding community, which strengthened links between the girls and their community. It also demonstrates how important the school's buildings and facilities were to contemporary ideas about the teaching of girls in a vocational setting. Originality/value – This is the first history of J.H. Boyd Domestic College to examine the intersections of gendered, classed ideas about pedagogy with ideas about the appropriate built environment for the teaching of domestic science. The contextualized approach sheds new light on domestic science education in Victoria and the unusually high quality of the learning spaces available for girls’ education.
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HACKMAN, LARRY J. "Toward Better Policies and Practices for Presidential Libraries." Public Historian 28, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 165–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2006.28.3.165.
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Abstract: Pesidential libraries need stronger coordination and leadership from the National Archives, better oversight by the Congress, and more informed and vigorous monitoring by the public and by the public history community. This is true not only for access to documents and services to researchers, but also, and perhaps especially now, for the “museum side” of the libraries, including exhibits and public and educational programs. The increasing reliance on funds from various library partner foundations to support programs aimed at the public is a worrisome trend. Although they have supported many worthy programs in the libraries, these “hidden hand” partners greatly reduce the transparency of the operation of the libraries which are, after all, public institutions still chiefly supported by American taxpayers. This article examines selected issues where better policy and practice would improve the programs and operations of the presidential libraries.
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Mieli, Anna, and Margaret D’Ambrosio. "IRIS: Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence." Art Libraries Journal 30, no. 4 (2005): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200014218.
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Florence in Italy, a renowned centre for art and culture, has been called a ‘living museum’ of the Italian Renaissance. Today it is also the site of a co-operative international project bringing the world’s scholarly community access to the bibliographic patrimonies of a group of special art and humanities libraries. The IRIS consortium is a unique resource for art historians, but it is also of value and use for anyone interested in the many aspects of this rich artistic period.
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Byeon, Hyeon Ju, and Miah Cho. "A Study on the History of School and Community Libraries Movement in Korea." Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science 27, no. 2 (June 30, 2016): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2016.27.2.151.
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Black, Alistair, and Oriel Prizeman. "Revisiting the Carnegie Public Library built form: the design and early history of three Illinois Carnegie Library buildings." Library and Information History 36, no. 2 (August 2020): 89–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/lih.2020.0019.
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Despite the challenges involved in re-cycling older library buildings, it is important not to underestimate the value of extant Carnegie libraries, which in many places are among the most celebrated and cherished structures in the community. Any tendency to underestimate the possibilities for extant Carnegie library buildings can be reduced by revisiting their original designs and challenging popular impressions that are based on unwarranted retrospective history. Case studies of three Illinois Carnegie libraries are presented: Decatur (opened 1903), Paxton (opened 1904), and Park Ridge (opened 1913). These case studies are followed by a positive interpretation of the built form of the three libraries studied, by drawing on recent accounts of the material culture of Carnegie public libraries in the decades immediately prior to the First World War, as well as by referring to contemporary policy on architectural control by Carnegie's office and critical reporting in the later stage of the Carnegie programme on its successes and failures.
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Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. "Chinese Opera in Turn-of-the Century Canada: Local History and Transnational Circulation." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 11, no. 2 (December 2014): 291–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479409814000391.
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One of the most curious aspects about Canadian Chinese cultural history is the role of opera theatres. They served as the public face of the community, cultural ambassadors or even artistic curiosities, but at the same time provided Chinese audiences the intimate world of emotive musical drama. Because of their public role, they were often ambitious projects. Since first appearing in Victoria in the 1860s, Chinese theatres played an integral role in its community life. Featuring performance of Cantonese opera, the regional genre known to the majority of Chinese immigrants that came from the Pearl River Delta of southern China, these theatres provided crucial entertainment. Chinese theatres’ success in Victoria, and later in Vancouver, was not an isolated phenomenon, but rather closely connected to other cities along the Pacific coast. The opera business waxed and waned, in large part as a result of the Chinese exclusionist policy in Canada and United States. In the 1910s and 1920s, through joint ventures, Chinese in Canada and the United States succeeded in forming a network of opera performance and revived their fluidity of movement in the Pacific Northwest region. Because this network returned significant mobility to troupes and performers, Chinese theatres flourished again in North America. This article provides a preliminary overview of this body of troupes and performers in Canada, its impact and the national and transnational forces that shaped it. It addresses key issues related to this history: the effect of immigration control, the relevance of Chinese theatres to community life, and the transborder crossings.
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Barr-Walker, Jill. "Health literacy and libraries: a literature review." Reference Services Review 44, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 191–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rsr-02-2016-0005.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the involvement of libraries in health literacy programs and initiatives based on a review of the literature. Design/methodology/approach Four databases were searched for papers that described health literacy programs and initiatives within libraries. Findings Several themes of health literacy programs in libraries emerged: health literacy for older adults, underserved populations, the general public, healthcare professionals, and medical students, and patients. Collaborations between libraries and community organizations were frequently used. Practical implications Librarians may use this review to understand the history of health literacy efforts and libraries to inform future programming. This review will contextualize current research on health literacy and libraries. Originality/value Despite the currency and relevance of this topic, there are no literature reviews on health literacy and librarianship.
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Alsuhaibani, Reham Ali. "One hundred tweets from library land: A case study of RMIT University Library (academic library) and State Library of Victoria (public state library) in Australia." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52, no. 1 (August 23, 2018): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000618792367.
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Twitter is used by different library types to communicate and engage with their community. This case study focuses on content choices in tweets and the level of engagement generated, in the context of two different types of library. The current study attempts to examine the contents of Library Twitter account of two libraries (academic and public) with the aim of evaluating in a comparative mode, their themes and levels of user engagement. This research used a mixed method research approach. For quantitative approach, this study analyzed 100 Tweets from each library, i.e. RMIT University Library and State Library of Victoria. Also, the study analyzed a number of tweets and levels of engagement by recording numbers of likes, replies and retweets. The qualitative aspect analyzed each Tweet to determine engagement level and type of content shared by each library. The results demonstrate that the public and academic libraries publish different types of content. The varied nature, audience and mandate of each library appear to influence the focus of their tweets. Also, the results show that the level of engagement is a factor of the numbers of tweets in any theme. The limitation of this study is the data set contained only 100 tweets for each library. Moreover, the number of users and registered library accounts had probably increased since the study was conducted.
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Chen, Sally. "Negotiating the Public/Private in Racial and Gender Essentialist Advocacy at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library." Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research 8 (November 22, 2019): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.56421/ujslcbr.v8i0.13.
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Public libraries are a wonder—they are institutions that invite you to linger at no expense. Often, they are built as if to anticipate your needs before they even register. Although not part of their job description, community branch librarians frequently take on the roles of local educators, resource advocates, and cultural navigators. The San Francisco Chinatown Branch librarians embodied this invisible history of labor, particularly through their advocacy to revitalize the physical space of the library in the 1970s-1990s. I deploy methods of close-reading with specific theoretical frameworks on community formation and culture to analyze the librarians’ work in the service of their public branch libraries. I analyze print material and local ephemera: coalition circulations, programming and exhibition flyers, pamphlets and surveys, and newspaper and magazine articles from the San Francisco Public Library archives. I argue that libraries are not only physical community centers, but critical centralized hubs of community knowledge and culture that librarians cultivate, that are vital to combatting and reshaping narratives of who and what Asians and Asian Americans are, against dominant forms ascribed by the nation-state.
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Абдыкеримoва, А., and А. Жаныбаева. "CREATING AN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY USING THE JAVASCRIPT PROGRAM." Vestnik Bishkek state university af. K. Karasaev 2, no. 60 (April 1, 2022): 42–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35254/bhu/2022.60.42.
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The article discusses the development and classification of electronic libraries. Advantages, disadvantages, legal framework for the use of electronic resources and development issues are considered. Terms used in this area are the main methods of creating an electronic library. Recently, the history of the development of electronic libraries in the world has been observed. Digital library is a concept that has different meanings. For the computing community, the digital library is a metaphor for new types of services that manage unstructured multimedia data. The article discusses JavaScript graphics libraries and how to create them as a website.
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CONNOLLY, S. J. "Like an old cathedral city: Belfast welcomes Queen Victoria, August 1849." Urban History 39, no. 4 (October 11, 2012): 571–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926812000375.
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ABSTRACT:Belfast, with its history of communal violence, is normally seen as lying outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century British urban development. The queen's visit, however, reveals a community characterized by much the same mixture of civic pride and diffidence that characterized other provincial centres. The episode also casts light on the ambivalent attitude of the British and Irish political establishments to the new industrial town, and on Belfast's ambiguous position within the Irish urban hierarchy.
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Zabiianov, Yevhen. "Content Features of Local History Resources of Libraries in the South of Ukraine." Ukrainian Journal on Library and Information Science, no. 10 (December 28, 2022): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269466.
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Due to the comprehensive use of information and communication technologies, there are changes in the information needs of local history content. The current audience’s readership demand encourages the expansion of information support, digitalisation of information, and an increase in local history content in the electronic segment. The aim of the article is to analyse the content of local history resources of libraries in the south of Ukraine and highlight the features of its formation to satisfy the readers’ needs. The research methodology includes the content monitoring of official websites, electronic libraries, and libraries’ weblogs of Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Odesa regions, as well as the review and analytical method of studying the existing theoretical heritage on the research topic. The scientific novelty is to highlight the features of the formation and diversity of content of electronic local history information resources with a focus on satisfying readers’ requests since users of local history documents have recently shown an increased interest in documents on the latest data carriers. Сonclusions define the role of local history electronic resources of libraries in the south of Ukraine in the region’s information space, as well as further prospects for their genesis and development. It is emphasised that one of the priority areas of local history activities of libraries in the formation of regional identity is the joint activity of library institutions with cultural, educational, research, archival institutions, community initiatives, and organisations. It is noted that the intensive development of digital library projects in combination with the study of local history information needs opens up additional ways to implement the tasks of libraries to ensure wide access of users to unique local history content resources and play an extremely important role in the information space of the region. The article offers suggestions for improving the digital content of local history in combination with the study of local history information needs.
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Jenstad, Janelle, and Erin E. Kelly. "A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada." Renaissance and Reformation 37, no. 4 (April 30, 2015): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v37i4.22641.
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Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the University of Victoria have enough rare books to serve these purposes. But how do we teach book culture and intellectual history when we do not have multiple or even representative books from many authors, countries, and sometimes whole decades? We adopt a curatorial teaching model that invites students to find, select, and chart a narrative through the materials that we do have. This article describes our curatorial projects in the hope that others will undertake similar endeavours. It also explains how the very partiality of our collection has generated wonderful opportunities for students to learn not just book history but also the history of Canadian universities, libraries, collectors, and Renaissance studies.
C’est seulement en ayant des livres anciens entre les mains que les étudiants peuvent faire l’expérience de l’altérité du passé et de la familiarité des difficultés liées aux innovations technologiques. Même une collection limitée comme celle de la University of Victoria est suffisante pour atteindre ces objectifs. Mais comment peut-on enseigner l’histoire et la culture du livre et l’histoire intellectuelle lorsque nos ressources ne contiennent pas suffisamment de livres ou des livres représentatifs de plusieurs auteurs, pays, voire de décennies ? Nous avons adopté un modèle d’enseignement de la conservation invitant les étudiants à trouver, sélectionner, et élaborer un récit historique à travers les ressources auxquelles nous avons accès. Cet article décrit nos projets de conservation dans l’espoir de susciter d’autres projets similaires. Nous y expliquons aussi comment une collection même très partielle comme la nôtre a donné le jour à d’extraordinaires possibilités d’apprentissage pour les étudiants, non seulement dans le domaine de l’histoire du livre mais aussi en histoire des universités, des bibliothèques, et des collectionneurs canadiens, dans le domaine des études de la Renaissance.
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Fenton, Michele. "A Light in the Circle City: A History of Public Library Services to African Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 258–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.6.2.0258.
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ABSTRACT This article focuses on the history of public library services to African Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana. Early efforts in establishing libraries for African Americans include a deposit station placed by the Indianapolis Public Library in 1919 at the Flanner Guild Settlement, a social services agency for African Americans. It was not until 1922 that a branch for African Americans, the Paul Laurence Dunbar Branch, was established by the Indianapolis Public Library. The Dunbar Branch’s success spurred the creation of two additional African American branches, the George Washington Carver Branch and the Crispus Attucks Branch. At a combined operational history of fifty-two years, these three branches were instrumental in fostering a love for reading and an appreciation for literature in Indianapolis’s African American community.
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Vinson, Emily. "Applying an Established Format to the Houston Archives Bazaar." Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 48, no. 1 (March 26, 2019): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2018-0034.
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AbstractRegional archival organizations across the United States have been bringing out the archives in free events designed to showcase collections in public spaces, and connect communities to local history resources. Called archives bazaars or crawls, these outreach events showcase the vibrant spectrum of archives from private collections, community organizations, municipal archives, and public and academic libraries. This short paper explores the history of these community archives events, and describes the creation, challenges and outcomes of hosting the inaugural 2017 Houston Archives Bazaar.
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Weber, Anke, Willem Hovestreydt, and Lea Rees. "Third Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 107, no. 1-2 (June 2021): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03075133211060539.
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Since antiquity, the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11) has been among the most frequently visited royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. It was also one of the first to be described and documented in detail by European travellers in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. As large parts of the wall decoration of the tomb, especially in its rear, are now destroyed, the drawings, notes and squeezes of those early researchers who saw the site in its former splendour offer an invaluable resource for the reconstruction of the tomb’s unique decoration programme. The collection, revision, and publication of all relevant archive material concerning KV 11 is an important goal of The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project. The following article reports on first and preliminary results from the authors’ research in the archives of the British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as the Bodleian Libraries and the Griffith Institute in Oxford, carried out in September 2019 and made possible through the Centenary Award 2019 of the Egypt Exploration Society.
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Khisamutdinov, Amir A. "The Russian Librarianship in Shanghai." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 6 (December 11, 2013): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2013-0-6-93-96.
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The article is devoted to the history of librarianship in Shanghai in the Russian emigration community. For the first time there is described the activities of public and private libraries, and paid attention to the individuals who contributed to forming of these funds.
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Khaitseva, L. B., and Yu B. Alieva. "Archive of the Karatygin family: professional publications and handwritten materials." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 10 (December 13, 2018): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2018-10-57-64.
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The authors draw attention of the professional community to the professional experience of the Karatygin family with the documents covering one hundred years of Russian sci-tech and special libraries. The quantitative data on professional publications and manuscripts by the Karatygins family donated to the Russian State Library are given.The Karatygins archive is the most significant collection acquired by the RSL specialized department in the recent years. It has compiled everything related to the development of sci-tech and special libraries, from general regulative documents, stenographs and All-Union conferences minutes, typical provisions and library rules to the reports of real regional special libraries. Research papers, statistical and methodological materials, learning programs, lectures and other documents are also included. The archive is of interest to researchers investigating into the history of special and sci-tech libraries, and the personal contribution of Fedor and Tatiana Karatygin into the development of sci-tech libraries and the library education in the country.
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Davis, Elisabeth. "“It Was about Time for Our Children to Learn How to Read”: Ruby Duncan, Operation Life, and the West Las Vegas Library." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 238–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.6.2.0238.
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ABSTRACT The history of the West Las Vegas Library and its inception by the welfare rights group Operation Life, and the organization’s founder Ruby Duncan, has largely been unstudied and overlooked in the historical record. The library was considered a branch of the Clark County Library System but was initially run by Operation Life in the 1970s and 1980s. However, in the mid-1980s the Clark County Library System built a new library, dismantling all the work done by Operation Life and Duncan. An examination of the West Las Vegas Library places Duncan and Operation Life as social actors within a community that had been forgotten by the dominant White culture. By analyzing this history, this work adds to a vibrant conversation on the history of race, poverty, and libraries.
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Ronnau, Peggy, Arthur Papakotsias, and Glen Tobias. ""Not for" sector in community mental health care defines itself and strives for quality." Australian Journal of Primary Health 14, no. 2 (2008): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py08025.
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This paper briefly describes the history and service context of the Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation and Support sector (PDRSS) in Victoria, and, to a lesser extent, in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. In describing the sector we will call upon the experience of a particular PDRSS - Neami - in operating and developing services, and the challenges it faced in establishing a culture of quality that directly improves consumer outcomes. Elements of this experience may serve as a guide in the development of mental health service policy at state and federal level.
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Pötsönen, Ulla, Leila Sonkkanen, and Harri Sahavirta. "Steppingstones to More Sustainable Public Libraries in Finland." International Journal of Librarianship 5, no. 2 (December 16, 2020): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2020.vol5.2.179.
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Public libraries in Finland have a strong history of cooperating and networking. Implementing SDGs and steering the action toward sustainability, however, has been so far carried out mainly out by individual libraries. A larger consensus or common guidelines are still missing, be it designing a new building, customer design thinking or rearranging internal workflows. This is to be changed, hopefully serving as an example to readers´ communities. The report presented current cases and current best practices on initiatives and concentrated on finding a broader common ground on sustainability work. Helsinki City Library will act as a nationwide accelerator and common voice promoting the step marks toward greener libraries. A nationwide expert network and community of practice is to be established as well. As one example of the development, the tight cooperation between public libraries and basic education in Finnish society will be discussed. For historical reasons public libraries operate to a large extent as school libraries, so the task of supporting curriculum on sustainability topics is a major task for public libraries as well. What does the future of this collaboration and its possibilities look like?
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Rule, Pauline. "The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, 1838–1901, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur." Journal of Chinese Overseas 9, no. 2 (2013): 107–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341256.
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Abstract Ho A Mei, one of the earliest young Chinese to receive a thorough English education in the colony of Hong Kong, spent ten difficult years from 1858 to 1868, striving to make a fortune in the gold rush Australian colony of Victoria. Here he learnt much about modern business practices and ventures and also protested against the racial hostility that the Chinese encountered. Eventually after his retreat back to Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, he was successful partly because of his experiences in the advanced capitalist economy of colonial Victoria. This led him to move beyond the mercantile enterprises and property buying, which were key activities of many Hong Kong Chinese businessmen, into the areas of modern financial and telegraph services and mining ventures. He also spoke out frequently in a provocative manner against the colonial government over injustices and discrimination that limited the rights and freedom of the Chinese in Hong Kong. During the 1880s and 1890s, he was a recognized Chinese community leader, one whose assertiveness on behalf of Chinese interests was not always appreciated by the Hong Kong authorities.
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Loi, Samantha, and Anne Hassett. "Evolution of aged persons mental health services in Victoria: The history behind their development." Australasian Journal on Ageing 30, no. 4 (July 3, 2011): 226–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6612.2011.00529.x.
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Sarratt, Carla. "The First Lady: Celebrating the Library Career of Louise Ferguson Bolden." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 42–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.6.1.0042.
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ABSTRACT From its inception in 1869, Cleveland Public Library (CPL) solidified its mark in library history with the development of resources and practices that have been implemented by other library systems throughout the world. In 1940, when Louise Cornelia Ferguson Bolden made front-page news in the Cleveland Call and Post, the tide shifted for Black librarianship in Cleveland, Ohio. Her historic forty-six-year career in library science includes being the first Black student to graduate from Case Western Reserve University Library Science School and the first Black librarian at CPL. The Cleveland Call and Post, her personnel file, and annual reports provide a treasure trove of information about Bolden’s career as well as the state of the library and the city of Cleveland. Her career as a librarian not only expands the history of the library, but also tells the history and anthropology of the people in the community.
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Coldiron, Katie, and Julio Capó. "Making Miami’s History and Present More Accessible." International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 6, no. 4 (January 25, 2023): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38943.
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This is a work-in-progress report of Miami Studies, a curricular, research, and collections-focused initiative housed at the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at Florida International University (FIU). Miami Studies represents a unique approach to Latina/o/x studies in the Greater Miami region and at one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) in the country. The rationale, framework, and historical context for a Miami Studies school of urbanism is described in detail. This is followed by an explanation of the WPHL’s digitally focused initiatives: the digitization of a now-defunct newspaper titled Miami Life and the Mellon Foundation-funded Community Data Curation post-custodial project. Also referenced is the Díaz Ayala Collection of Cuban and Latin American Popular Music, housed at FIU Libraries.
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Ahti, Elena G. "The Mayakovsky Library: 150 Years of Tradition and Innovation." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)] 67, no. 6 (December 27, 2018): 681–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2018-67-6-681-689.
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In 2018, the Mayakovsky central city public library reaches its 150th anniversary. The purpose of the article is to show the library’s commitment to traditions, the desire to deeply understand its history, to identify and implement innovative ways of development. The past of one of the oldest libraries of St. Petersburg is closely connected with the history of public life of the city, with priorities of democratic intelligentsia, the activities of predecessors, the founders of the library, its owners. For many years the Mayakovsky central city public library has been studying its own history, realizing that the passed way and loyalty to the best traditions help to determine the vector directions of further development. Currently, the organization of corporate network of public libraries of St. Petersburg is one of the most productive ways of development, as it allows optimizing the various costs and rational use of the available resources. This is the unique and successful project, which united the libraries to create and use information resources on the basis of unified technological processes that considerably increased efficiency and brought the quality of the user service to a new level. The library actively develops and implements innovative forms of work related to methodical, bibliographic, publishing, cultural and educational activity. The activity of library gets positive response not only from libraries of St. Petersburg, but also the library community of the country. Numerous applications for professional training in the Mayakovsky central city public library from various regions of Russia demonstrate it. Positioning itself primarily as an information centre, the library is actively developing its own resources, such as Electronic library and Virtual reading room; the new virtual forms of service are remote joining the library, electronic library account and online consultant. These areas of service allow the library to remain the recognized leader of the library community of St. Petersburg.
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Tooey, Mary Joan (MJ). "Meaningful and strategic alignment: A roadmap for library success." Journal of EAHIL 15, no. 3 (September 10, 2019): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.32384/jeahil15328.
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It is vitally important for libraries to have strategic plans aligned with institutional vision and missions, and with actionable goals aligned with the user needs. Library plans are often developed in a “library knows best” vacuum without considering the user perspective. Often assumptions regarding the needs of key library stakeholders are clouded by history and tradition and by asking the wrong questions of the community. By carefully reviewing institutional plans, identifying key stakeholders, thoughtfully assessing user needs, and then applying library staff expertise, libraries can develop meaningful plans with Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant or Results-oriented or Realistic, Time-bound (SMART) goals.
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Kamen, Ruth. "Viewpoint." Art Libraries Journal 26, no. 2 (2001): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200012104.
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Architecture, the focus of this issue, is held to be the ‘mother of the arts’. It is also referred to as the ‘queen of the decorative arts’. But in the family of art libraries and art librarianship, architecture is often a neglected stepchild. So I welcome the invitation extended in this issue of the Art Libraries Journal to the ‘Cinderella of the arts’, and hope that her appearance at the art ball will extend beyond midnight.Over the past quarter of a century or so that I have been an architectural librarian, I have sometimes wondered why architecture libraries are isolated from their sister libraries in the world of art and design, and why architecture libraries and librarians feel the need to separate themselves from their art and design siblings. Is it because the art community is uncomfortable with architecture? If so, is this because architecture is outside the mainstream of art education or art history teaching? Or is it because architecture libraries are generally part of professional institutes, schools of architecture or architectural firms, whose concerns and affiliations may have more in common with the engineering sciences (civil, structural, materials, environmental), the building and construction industries, urban and landscape design, town and country planning, and estate, project and business management, than with the more scholarly and historical focus of art libraries in museums and universities?
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Woodruff, Graham. "‘Nice Girls’: the Vic Gives a Voice to Women of the Working Class." New Theatre Quarterly 11, no. 42 (May 1995): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00001135.
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Since its opening in 1961, the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent has arguably been England's most adventurous and inventive repertory theatre, distinguished by the number and range of new plays it has produced – and particularly by the series of local documentaries which has set out to explore and reflect the life of the local community. The first issue ofTheatre Quarterly(1971) covered the early years of the old Victoria Theatre, and included an article by the director, Peter Cheeseman, on the company policy and production style of what was then Britain's only permanent theatre in the round. In addition, a ‘Production Casebook’ followed the creative processes and the techniques involved in rehearsals of one of the early Vic documentaries, TheStaffordshire Rebels. Here, Graham Woodruff looks at developments in the later Vic documentaries and, in the light of current discourses on popular theatre, history, and class politics, examines the implications of a regional theatre giving voice to ‘women of the working class’ in the latest Vic documentary,Nice Girls. Graham Woodruff, who has been Head of Drama at the University of Birmingham and for sixteen years worked for Telford Community Arts, wrote in NTQ28 (1989) on the politics of community plays, and is currently undertaking research on the ways in which the contemporary theatre gives expression to workingclass voices and interests.
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Baker, Sarah, and Zelmarie Cantillon. "Safeguarding Australia’s Community Heritage Sector: A Consideration of the Institutional Wellbeing of Volunteer-Managed Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Historical Societies." Australian Historical Studies 51, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 70–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2019.1659836.
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Locke, Joseph L., and Ben Wright. "History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History." American Historical Review 126, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 1485–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab534.
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Abstract In an ongoing commitment to experimentation, the AHR invited an “open peer review” of a submitted manuscript, “History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History,” by Joseph L. Locke (University of Houston–Victoria) and Ben Wright (University of Texas at Dallas). Given that Locke and Wright argued for the coexistence of transparency alongside formal academic peer review, subjecting their submission to an open review made sense. The peer review process itself tested the propositions about the democratization of scholarship they put forth in their submission. Their article appears in a new section of the AHR, “Writing History in a Digital Age,” overseen by consulting editor Lara Putnam (https://ahropenreview.com/). The maturation of digital history has propelled historians’ embrace of open educational resources. But, this article argues, open access licensing is not enough. Digital history’s earliest practitioners promised not just more accessible digital materials, but a broader democratization of history itself. This article therefore moves beyond questions of technological innovation and digital access in the rise of digital history to engage more fundamental and intractable questions about inequality, community, and participatory historical inquiry.
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Bail, Jeannie, and Ailsa Craig. "The Alert Collector: Transgender Culture and Resources." Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 4 (June 21, 2017): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56.4.249.
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In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of transgender culture, issues, and experiences. In popular culture, trans celebrities such as Laverne Cox, Chaz Bono, and Janet Mock have been a part of this shift, often acting as celebrity spokespeople to increase understanding of trans issues. Even with the greater visibility of trans lives in popular culture, ongoing court battles like G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board (a US case centered on trans students’ rights to use communal bathrooms congruent with their gender) demonstrate the need for greater understanding and acceptance.As co-authors, we have had the privilege of working with materials on loan from the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria (Canada), the largest transgender archive in the world. This experience, which included collecting comments from library patrons who viewed the collection materials, highlighted for us the role that libraries and archives play in laying the groundwork for increased diversity, awareness, and inclusion related to trans lives, culture, and community. It is not only a matter of meeting the information needs of those who are coming out as transgender, but the wider community of family (spouses, children, parents, etc.), friends, and allies. And, alongside the value of providing information with direct practical application, patrons’ comments underscored how the inclusion of trans resources at the library enriches our cultural imaginary, and creates the space for imagining and living what they have sometimes felt to be “impossible lives.”
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Stieglitz, Sally, and Kristen J. Nyitray. "Using Oral History to Assess Community Impact: A Conversation with Beverly C. Tyler, Historian, Three Village Historical Society." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 2, no. 2 (June 23, 2017): 115–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15402/esj.v2i2.166.
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This article examines the impact of an acquisition by Special Collections at Stony Brook University Libraries on community relations. The department acquired two historically important letters about the Culper Spy Ring, an intelligence gathering effort on Long Island, New York, initiated by George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Through a guided conversation with local historian Beverly C. Tyler, the authors gained insights on how the letters influenced the community’s re-telling of history and the development of new exhibitions and programming. The conversation also provided context for the relationship between the university and its neighbors. The narrative developed into a significant asset in its own right, in the form of an oral history that provides evidence of a previously undocumented facet of university-community engagement over time.
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Pašeta, Senia. "Nationalist responses to two royal visits to Ireland, 1900 and 1903." Irish Historical Studies 31, no. 124 (November 1999): 488–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400014371.
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In July 1903 Maud Gonne hung a black petticoat from the window of her Dublin home, insulting her unionist neighbours and provoking what became known as ‘the battle of Coulson Avenue’. Aided by nationalist friends, athletes from Cumann na nGaedheal and her sturdy housekeeper, she defended her ‘flag’ against police and irate neighbours. Gonne’s lingerie — allegedly a mark of respect for the recently deceased pope — flew in stark and defiant contrast to the numerous Union Jacks which lined her street in honour of King Edward VII’s visit to Ireland. This episode heralded a month of spectacular protest which polarised nationalist opinion. Like the visit to Dublin of Queen Victoria in 1900, King Edward’s tour provoked both enormous public interest and rivalry between various Irish institutions which vied to express their loyalty to the crown. But the royal tours also instigated fierce debate within the nationalist community and highlighted the ever deepening rifts between constitutional nationalism and ‘advanced’ nationalism.
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Palfrey, John. "Design Choices for Libraries in the Digital-Plus Era." Daedalus 145, no. 1 (January 2016): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00367.
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Libraries are more important, not less so, in a digitally networked era. Despite the fact that today's mobile devices feature Google's search box and Apple's Siri to help us find a quick answer to just about any question, we ought to be investing more capital than ever in our public libraries. We need libraries in the digital era to provide a public option to ensure sustained, free, equitable access to knowledge and preservation of our cultural and scientific heritage. In a period when both the analog and digital are useful, the design choices for those building, and reimagining, libraries are many and complex. We ought to design our libraries to meet the near-term possibilities of a networked environment, as well as the long-term requirements of democratic societies and the practice of scholarship. These design choices involve trade-offs and new commitments that may pit future activities against entrenched present-day interests. The essential design choice is between reliance on ever-more efficient interfaces, often developed by commercial outfits, and interfaces that are developed by the library community, engaging the public in coproduction and extending outward via the networked public sphere. The fate of libraries as vibrant institutions with broad public support could turn on the outcome of these design decisions. The challenges facing libraries also inform conversations about the future of other public-facing institutions, such as schools and newspapers, which are important contributors to an informed citizenry and a vital republic.