Literatura académica sobre el tema "Newark Public Library. Special Collections Division"

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. Click here for more information. The following paper by Borowski was an undergraduate thesis submitted to the American Studies Department at Rutgers University. Dr. Carla Cevasco advised.

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, and Peter Mickulas. The advisory committee consists of Ron Becker, Karl Niederer, Elsalyn Palmisano, and Fred Pachman. Click here for more information. The following paper was one of two 2020 winners.

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, and Peter Mickulas. The advisory committee consists of Ron Becker, Karl Niederer, Elsalyn Palmisano, and Fred Pachman. Click here for more information. The following paper was one of two 2020 winners.

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Pubic Library. An especially active and effective member of the New Jersey history community, he did much to expand the audience for New Jersey history and was an effective advocate for public history and a vigorous supporter of scholarship and publication about the state’s history. As a program officer and a grants administrator he helped many of our present historians and humanities scholars to achieve their goals, whether as scholars, history agency personnel, or educators. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University with a dissertation about Newark during the era of the Great Depression. He was the author or editor of many works about New Jersey’s past, especially about its urban history. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference; and the New Jersey Council for History Education. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, Brooke Hunter, and Peter Mickulas. Click here for more information. The following paper by Mr. Federowicz, nominated by Professor Richard L. McCormick, was one of two 2017 winners.

Abstract This paper discusses the history of the Polish book collection at the Chicago Public Library (CPL) from the time the Foreign Language Section (FOL) in the main library was established, until the present. The author has used both primary and secondary sources. Many of them are archival materials still unpublished (FOL Annual Report Bulletin from the Office of the Librarian, etc.) and stored in the Special Collections and Preservation Division at the Harold Washington Library Center (HWLC) in Chicago. The names of many dedicated librarians who have worked and are working now at FOL are provided. The article tries to answer the question: How did they help new immigrants to adjust to the American way of life? A considerable part of this paper is devoted to the programming aimed at Chicago's Polish community. These programs took place at CPL from its beginning, but more were scheduled in the 1970s and the 1980s, when American libraries begin to promote multiculturalism and diversity. The establishment of the Polish American Services Committee (PASC) in 1995, which was organized and continues to function to the present time, is also covered.

Special Collections, a division of Stony Brook University Libraries (SBU Libraries), acquired at auction two American Revolutionary War–era spy letters authored by George Washington. Significant to regional and national historical narratives, the letters document espionage activities in the Three Village area of Long Island, New York, the site of an important war effort known as the Culper Spy Ring. The letters were obtained through a collaborative acquisition project established in the months preceding the first auction. A private-public partnership was initially formed to secure funding. Next, mindful of the spy ring’s strong link to community identity, library representatives cultivated relationships with local cultural institutions to foster inclusiveness. Key to the process was articulating and reaffirming the shared goals to repatriate the letters, conserve them, and make them accessible at the university.

Significant changes in the library network development of Tambov region have occurred as a result of reforming the administrative-territorial division. The counties and townships abolition has led to a change of the libraries typology. The Central Provincial Library was first transformed into the Central District Library (before 1934), then - into the Central Municipal one (until 1937), and, finally, to the Regional one (in 1937). A specific feature of the period under review was opening a central library in each district (with a network of mobile libraries), as well as the organizing stationary libraries at enterprises and large state- and collective-farms. Urban population was mostly served by a network of trade union libraries, rural inhabitants - by a library network of the People's Commissariat of Education. In 1940 the number of public libraries in Tambov region reached 552, including 453 ones in the countryside. The network of public (mass) libraries included the following libraries: state district ones - 42, state municipal ones - 4, state rural ones - 102, state children ones - 7, village state public library and reading rooms - 158, public libraries at the regional culture houses and other club facilities - 12, collective-farm ones - 56, trade union ones - 131, public libraries of other agencies and organizations - 27. Strengthening ideological pressure on library services resulted in the tightening of censorship, mass withdrawal of the ideologically harmful literature. Collections of seized books marked «do not give masses» were created in the libraries as special funds. New editions entered the region in a limited number. In general, in the 1930s the book composition in the library stocks of Tambov region is characterized by the following data by branches of knowledge: anti-religious literature was 2,2%, social studies - 19,5%, natural science - 4,6%, applied sciences - 6,2%, agriculture - 5,1%, history and geography - 6,5%, fiction - 28,7%, others - 27,2%. The total library fund had not enough fiction and books on natural history, book sections on technology and agriculture needed accession. By the beginning of 1941 the amount of the public libraries fund in Tambov region was totaled 843,948 copies. To improve significantly the level of library service the nation-wide measures have been taken, among them were the following: Library Campaign, All-Union Library Census, All-Union competition for the best area on performing the librarianship in the countryside. They were aimed at drawing public attention to the serious problems existed in the librarianship. However, the Library Campaign was not properly developed in Tambov region. Scanty funding, general unpreparedness, inadequate qualifications of librarians and other factors affected negatively to achieve this goal.

This article analyses the issues of collecting and storing illegal publications and those confiscated by censorship authorities in the Central State Bookshop. It describes the structure of the military and other general censorship institutions, which sent the prohibited press to the Central State Bookshop. The aim of the study is to establish the approximate date of commencement of the activities of the department that stored confiscated by censorship or illegally issued publications, and several lists of publications prohibited by censorship and transmitted by the CSB are discussed. It is worth noting that until the 1940s, libraries were also called bookshops. In 1936, after the promulgation of the Law on Public Libraries, the Central State Bookshop became the Central State Library, and its departments became state public libraries. Between 1919–1922, under the management of Eduardas Volteris, the collection and storage of illegal and censored publications at the Central State Bookshop became a matter of interest. The legal deposit was the key and constant source of acquisition of the collections of the Central State Bookshop. In 1919 and 1935, the press laws stipulated how many mandatory copies had to be delivered to county governors or simply to state institutions. However, illegal and confiscated publications were not included in the legal deposit. The main aim of the library was to collect and store all publications published in Lithuania and by Lithuanian publishers abroad. Therefore, it was important for the library to compile a complete set of the current press. To obtain prohibited titles, the library cooperated with the structural units of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of the Interior responsible for the supervision of the press. In various historical periods, unequal attention was paid to the compilation of censorship-restricted press in the Central State Bookshop. Until the 1930s, there was an intensive correspondence between war censors and the Press and Societies Division of the Department of Civil Protection about sending and collecting prohibited press in the Central State Bookstore. During c. 1920–1921, illegal and confiscated publications began to be collected in a separate office called the “secret division”. In the 1940s, censorship institutions sent lists of prohibited press of various volumes to the library. After reviewing the publications on these lists, no signs of censorship could be found. Records of censorship office provenances and censorship officers were found in individual publications that were not included in the lists of prohibited books. Although the publications confiscated by censorship authorities were stored in the library of the University of Lithuania, and in the library of Vytautas Magnus University since 1930, CSB was the only library in the interwar period in which special attention was paid to the issues of collecting prohibited press. Use of the prohibited press was restricted. These titles were not open to general public; only employees of ministries and members of the Seimas could read it. The prohibited press could serve scientific research and press statistics.

Three short 18th century Persian language letters in the manuscript collection of the Division of Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library, along with the story of how they came to McGill University, provide a fascinating window on the British Empire and the efforts of imperial subjects to obtain employment. The story begins in Bengal where a rising civil servant, Raja Gobind Ram, at a difficult time in his life, petitions his friend David Anderson for assistance. Gobind Ram achieves success, holding eventually posts of considerable responsibility in nascent British India. When, in the late 19th century, the letters come to Canada, the story introduces a young Scottish entrepreneur and immigrant, J. K. Oswald, and his pursuit of employment—first in the financial world of Montreal and later in public service at the then small settlement of Calgary—during the years when the Canadian Pacific Railway was opening up Western Canada, and Louis Riel was leading the Northwest Rebellion of 1885.ResuméUn coup d’œil fascinant sur l’empire britannique et sur les efforts déployés par ses sujets pour trouver du travail est offert par trois courtes lettres en langue perse datant du 18e siècle et par l’histoire du cheminement par lequel elles sont parvenues à l’Université McGill, où elles résident présentement à la Division des livres rares et des collections spéciales de la Bibliothèque McLennan. L’histoire débute au Bengale, avec la demande d’aide adressée par le fonctionnaire Raja Gobind Ram lors d’un moment difficile de sa vie à son ami David Anderson. Gobind Ram accéda éventuellement à des postes d’importance considérable en Inde à l’aube de l’époque d’administration britannique. Ces lettres sont parvenue au Canada vers la fin du 19e siècle, et c’est à cette étape du récit que nous rencontrons James Kidd Oswald, un jeune entrepreneur et immigrant écossais. Nous le suivons alors qu’il cherche du travail—d’abord dans le monde financier de Montréal, puis à titre de fonctionnaire dans ce qui était alors la petite ville de Calgary—au cours des années qui ont vu la compagnie de chemins de fer Canadian Pacific ouvrir les portes de l’ouest canadien et Louis Riel mener la rébellion de 1885.

AbstractThe Metropolitana Library (ML) with its valuables has often been mentioned and presented throughout the 19th and 20th century. We should mention a special public presentation of the Library in celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Zagreb Archbishopy in 1993/1994. Practically all the cathedrals had, and still have, bishopy libraries, which often hold very rare and valuble books in their collections (eg. in Đakovo, Trogir, or the library of the Greek Catholic Bishopy in Križevci). The aim of this article is to present to the Slovene cultural circles a historic overview of the history of the ML (Library of the Zagreb Archbishopy) and the important personalities having credit for the development of the Library. The most valuable manuscripts of the Library’s written treasures are presented and the thematic division of the library collection is laid out. Valvasor’s library and the graphic collection are also presented.PovzetekMetropolitana, knjižnica Zagrebške nadškofije, je najstarejša cerkvena knjižnica na Hrvaškem. Ustanovljena je bila med 1093. in 1094. letom, v času, ko je v Zagreb prišel za škofa Čeh, imenovan Duh. Pravi razcvet doživi MK v 17. st., v času škofa Aleksandra Ignacija Mikulića (1688-1694), ki je poskrbel za restavriranje knjig in 1692. leta naročil gradnjo stavbe Metropolitane. Zagotovil je finančna sredstva za vzdrževanje knjižnice in občutno povečal zbirko z nakupom pomembne knjižnice slovenskega polihistorja in barona Janeza Vajkarda Valvasorja. Škof S. Seliščević je 1695. leta izdal Konstitucije, prva pravila za knjižnico. Škof M. Vrhovac je nabavljal literaturo v vseh večjih tiskarskih centrih zahodne Evrope. Nadškof in kardinal J. Haulik je 1846. leta KM odprl za zagrebško kulturno javnost. V potresu 1880. leta je bila stavba knjižnice poškodovana, zato so knjige prenesli na drugo lokacijo na Kapitolu.Leta 1916. je bilo po dogovoru med Zagrebško nadškofijo in Kraljevo univerzitetno knjižnico (NSK) sklenjeno, da se MK preseli na Marulićev trg, lastnik knjižnice pa ostane Zagrebška nadškofija. S selitvijo NSK v novo stavbo 1996. leta je bil sklenjen nov dogovor med Hrvaškim državnim arhivom in Zagrebško nadškofijo, po katerem KM še naprej ostane na Marulićevom trgu 21, v stavbi današnjega Hrvaškega državnega arhiva.V svoji zbirki hrani: 150 rokopisov iz 11.–16. st. (zelo redki rokopisi, svetovne raritete); 50 rokopisov iz 17.-19. st., ki so metropolitanska redkost; 300 rokopisov: prigodnic, pisem in posvetil; 253 inkunabul, okoli 1500 zvezkov iz 16. st.; okoli 2200 zvezkov iz 17. st; 7500 starih hrvaških knjig - “Croatica«; malo, vendar pomembno zbirko 40 atlasov in 94 zemljevidov; Miscellanea - okoli 1750 zvezkov; šematizmov - okoli 1800 zvezkov; Valvazorjevo knjižnico s 1530 zvezki, ki imajo Valvasorjev ekslibris in 7300 grafičnih listov. Skupno hranijo: 31000 signatur, to je več kot 60000 zvezkov.Gradivo izvira iz različnih dežel in je napisano v latinščini, nemščini, italijanščini, francoščini, madžarščini, grščini, hrvaščini in v drugih jezikih. V glavnem so rokopisi napisani v gotici in latinici, nekaj rokopisov je v drugih pisavah: karolini, glagolici (2 rokopisa v celoti) in beneventani (rokopis iz 11. stoletja). Ne glede na to, da je Metropolitana cerkvena knjižnica, v njej lahko beremo, poleg teoloških del, literaturo iz skoraj vseh področij znanosti, kulture, tehnike in umetnosti.Zbirka knjižnice nam omogoča spoznati različne miniaturistične šole, pogled na različne vrste opreme knjig in vezav: les, koža, žamet, kovina, marmoriran papir ali karton. S proučevanjem gradiv se lahko seznanimo s hrvaško in svetovno zgodovino, zgodovino tiskarstva ter lahko pogledamo mnoga znamenita in redka dela svetovnih založnikov. Lahko rečemo: “Metropolitana je v celoti in s posameznimi raritetami dragocen biser v zakladnici hrvaške kulturne dediščine, kar dokazuje, da je bil hrvaški narod od nekdaj v koraku z evropsko kulturo”.(Prevedla: Tereza Poličnik-Čermelj)