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Focuses on the outreach to students taking classes over 80 locations within the State of Maine, as well as students taking classes nationally via the World Wide Web through the University of Maine System Network. Collections and services available through the University of Maine System's digital library and the Off-Campus Library Services Office; Reserve services for students at remote locations.

This article demonstrates how a public research university library responded to user needs following radical service changes during Fall 2020 and assesses whether the library met challenges resulting from COVID-19. The library reduced hours and occupancy and implemented a reservation system and new health safety guidelines with the goal of a safe environment. During Fall 2020, 540 survey respondents reported feeling their health was not at risk, suggesting the goal was accomplished. Additionally, users provided feedback about the altered landscape. This article will benefit administrators and user experience librarians who need to balance user preferences and administrative reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay and checklist document the exhibition Pageant of the Tsars: The Romanov Coronation Albums, held at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens February 16–June 8, 2013. The exhibition focused on the history of the Romanovs through the lens of the coronation albums of the tsars. Based on the collection of five of the seven coronation albums held in the Hillwood library, the exhibition was supplemented with objects from the museum and library collections, loans from other institutions, and electronic versions of the albums available on iPads in the exhibition and via the iBooks store. The show marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in 1613. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the availability of LGBTQ Spanish language nonfiction books among selected university libraries along the United States–Mexico border to measure access to materials for readers and researchers and identify what resources selectors might use to inform purchases. This study utilizes 37 titles and seven libraries for a comparison of holdings. It seeks to expand the body of knowledge available regarding LGBTQ literature while establishing a baseline regarding the availability of LGBTQ Spanish-language materials in academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the distinct challenges that works of art pose for those managing non-art specialist research libraries across the United Kingdom. Using analysis of survey and case-study interview data, the article demonstrates that current approaches to the management of art in non-art specialist research libraries are uneven in such key areas as collection management; cataloguing; storage and access; and librarianship and training. This article seeks to build consensus on best practices with respect to the management of art in libraries and proposes practical recommendations for libraries seeking to improve the care and use of the art in their collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2020 the University of Kansas Libraries began a year-long diversity audit of the circulating monograph collection. The study, which utilized the checklist method evaluated the Libraries' holdings based on a curated list of award winning and nominated titles. In addition to determining if specific titles were part of the collection, the study also sought to learn how these books were acquired. The study found that the library owned 60% of the 6,671 titles checked and of those with a known acquisitions method, 59% came via an approval plan. Titles and publishers not profiled by GOBI were significantly less likely to be in the collection as they were not included in the approval plan or highlighted by a slip notification. The Libraries' reliance on GOBI and efficient and streamlined selection and acquisition processes has resulted in a less diverse collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anton van den Wyngaerde's (c. 1490–1571) Panorama of Walcheren (after c. 1548) depicts the entire Island and the North Sea across ten metres of rolled paper. As the scene unfurls, viewers travel across Walcheren's dikes, roads, and waterways. Staffage accompanies the viewer on this mental journey, animating the topographical vision. Comparison with Jacob van Deventer's (c. 1500/5–1575) maps of Walcheren's largest cities (c. 1550) demonstrates van den Wyngaerde's pictorial style. His style's potential for cinematic absorption was suited to the panorama's intended audience and location. A version of this panorama hung in the Palacio de El Pardo of Philip II (1527–1598), King of Spain, by September 1564. That painted panorama, now lost, brought before the king's eyes an illustrated account of the Island's economic and defensive significance. Strolling the length of the gallery, Philip could envision past time spent on Walcheren and find himself immersed in the Island's cultural experiences while being reminded of its position. The viewing experience offered the king of Spain a microcosmic synecdoche of his imperial power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourist homes, private residences that rented rooms to traveling guests, were once a popular form of tourist accommodation in the United States. Reaching their peak in the early 20th century, tourist homes largely became obsolete as hotels and motels were able to provide relatively inexpensive and standardized forms of hospitality. As a result of their meteoric rise and fall, and the private nature of the lodging, tourist homes have been neglected in studies of historical tourism and hospitality. However, tourist homes occupied an important position in providing welcome and other forms of hospitality to travelers, particularly Black Americans, in the first half of the 20th century, and this role deserves to be recovered and recognized. An exploration of tourist homes listed in the Green Book, a Black American-centric travel guide published during the Jim Crow Era, reveals that tourist homes not only lodged travelers overnight, but also significantly contributed to forms of mobile resistance against white supremacy. Specifically, through a conceptualization of hospitality as resistance, tourist homes enabled opportunities for Black Americans to gain economic and social capital through processes of welcoming and establishing 'Black counterpublic spaces'. Particularly through constructions of home-like environments, tourist homes presented spaces that served as moorings within larger mobility networks, countering white supremacist attempts to immobilize and disadvantage Black Americans. Given these contributions to resistance and Black mobility, tourist homes deserve to be included in studies of tourism, hospitality, and Black geographies as important sites of welcoming, resistance, and resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public libraries submit the number of holdings and circulation of items in their collections to their state libraries annually, which in turn report these statistics to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Public Library Survey (PLS). The reported numbers qualify public libraries for federal and state funding. Additionally, the quantity of holdings (traditionally monographs, serials and physical popular media) is often compared to the circulation (number of check-outs) of those items to calculate a cost-per-circulation number. This calculation becomes complicated when a library's "holdings" become ephemeral due to the nature of digital media and digital licensing models. This article describes several existing metrics for assessing the holdings and circulation of digital assets within both public and academic libraries and argues for the adoption of post-custodial holding metrics used by archives to better represent items available to library patrons, especially those in traditionally underserved demographics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1947 and 1972, governments of India and Pakistan laid claims to ownership, management and share of the India Office Library & Records. These attempts and the British government's responses to them have been bypassed by scholars of decolonisation. This article traces the trajectory of that dispute's three distinct phases, wherein different proposals were mooted to wrest and retain, respectively the riches and records of the IOL&R. Unlike the more-studied African and Southeast Asian cases from the former British Empire, this dispute was less clear-cut and therefore more demanding of both sides in their manoeuvres to pursue their desires. Legal, administrative and technical bids were made in historical and moral arguments, with cultural and economic factors listed in support. In providing their details, this article demonstrates a difficult episode for decolonisation, where at stake was both its curated imperial past and yet-to-be written national narratives. It shows how symbols of a shared history as well as sources of that history's separate writing became an arena of contest as much for the old glory as for new profits. At a time when decolonising history is in vogue, this article depicts the difficulties of even diversifying the artefacts of colonial history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a newly-discovered collection of administrative documents and correspondence from the Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv [Russian Historical Archive Abroad], which was active 1924–1945. The collection is housed in the Slavonic Library in Prague. It is important for both the history of the archive itself and the history of the Russian emigration. An inventory list of the collection is now available on the library's Web site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Providing on-demand streaming video content for course reserves remains a formidable challenge. Multitudinous methods for acquiring and accessing content hamper the flexibility of any such service. This article reviews what one library has done to make streaming media, especially streaming video, available to faculty in the collection and how this foundation will be used to support electronic reserves service in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Given the increasing demand for GIS services and collections in libraries, librarians should use every outreach tool available to reach potential audiences. An annual event, GIS Day has a robust and established range of supporting tools that are easily customized for local use. Effective marketing, including visibility and longevity of Web pages, is an effective tool for increasing awareness of GIS services. This study analyzes content of Web pages to evaluate the levels of participation and promotion of GIS through GIS Day at U.S.-based Association of Research Libraries academic libraries and their host universities. Results indicate a range of involvement, with some libraries participating in numerous events while others are not taking full advantage of this valuable outreach opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The illustrative power of a set of repeat photographs is often stronger than that of other scientific output, but historical photographs are also a very useful research tool and object. Here we demonstrate how historical photographs in Ethiopia are used in studies on landscape and land use changes, soil erosion and geomorphology, history and historical context, livelihood and archaeology. Further, using the case study of Ethiopia, the location, accessibility and quality of digital archives of historical photographs is discussed as well as the way in which they can be used in research. Historical landscape photographs that are available in major archives may now largely be traced and often obtained through the Internet, as libraries increasingly are digitising collections and making them available online. Institutions that do not make at least part of their collection available online see decreasing numbers of end users, as opposed to a majority of archives which revaluate their collection by making it available online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the summer of 2004, Georgia Southern University began a library construction project that was to last 4 years. An important aspect was the installation of an Automated Retrieval System (ARC) to house a substantial portion of the library collections so that more space could be available for students, faculty, and the services to meet their needs. This paper traces the development of the use of the ARC to house collections, with emphasis on how materials were selected for the two phases of the project and how catalogers have adapted to the idea of collections that can only be browsed virtually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mbooks are open-access, digitized books freely available on the Internet. This article describes the Auraria Library's experience of loading brief MARC records for Mbooks into its online public access catalog and looks at some of the issues that arose from the record-loading project. Despite the low quality of the records, librarians in Auraria Library thought that loading them into the catalog was advantageous because of the rich content in the collection and because many of the records could be improved using the global update functionality in the catalog. Making the records available through the catalog, as opposed to merely linking to the entire collection from the Library's Web page, was considered to be valuable because of the aggregation a catalog provides and because the Mbooks collection helped fill gaps in the Library's physical collections. As more open-access, digitized books become available, libraries will need to plan and manage how best to provide access to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South Pointe Hospital is a community hospital that originally had few electronic resources available. This article describes how the library gradually acquired an electronic journals collection that started with just 2 titles and grew to a list of over 6000 titles including open access publications. The journals' online usage statistics were used to justify and increase the library budget, which enabled the library to purchase more titles as journal infrastructure software. Even though the collection had been created, it must be maintained and promoted; this article briefly discusses the need for education and promotion of the resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2004, the Social Sciences and Humanities Library at the University of California-San Diego implemented restaurant-style pagers to notify waiting patrons that the reserve collection materials they needed were available. The authors describe the university libraries' process for implementing the pagers and the success staff has had with pagers over the past four years, list other libraries that use pagers, suggest other library uses for pagers, and offer guidance to institutions that might consider this service enhancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the development and growth of the Canadian Forces Virtual Library (CFVL), a collection of electronic resources for education and professional development available to military and civilian staff of the Canadian Department of National Defence. The CFVL aims to provide the maximum of depth and breadth of content within the special conditions of its environment: English/French bilingualism, secure military computer networks and a large, sometimes far flung organization with fanny remote or "nomadic" users. The Canadian Forces Health Services benefits from the most recent expansion with the addition of six health and medicine databases from Ebsco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a slightly abridged edited version of a final report detailing the background and implementation of a project that introduced electronic book (e-book) collections to Essex Public Libraries during 2004. The research considered e-book collections available for borrowing on a PDA (HP iPAQ) and collections downloadable on to the borrower's PDA or PC (OverDrive, ebrary). The project, sponsored by The Laser Foundation,1 consisted of a partnership consisting between Loughborough University,2 Essex Public Libraries3 and Co-East.4 In addition to a discussion of the findings of the research, guidelines are offered to other public library authorities considering the adoption of e-book collections and mobile technology. Two articles based on this research have been published elsewhere considering the evaluation of the iPAQ trials (Dearnley et al.,2004) and the provision and uptake of OverDrive and ebrary (Dearnley et al.,2005) collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many libraries in the US provide information about their cataloging department homepages as segments of their technical services homepages. However, in case of the Arabian Gulf university libraries, all the library Websites focus on general collections and services available to their patrons and there is a lack of information on various departments within the library. Very few library Websites have information about the cataloging departments. Only the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) library Website provides a separate Website for its Cataloging Operations Division. The study also found that the exploitation of Web-based cataloging resources by catalogers of the KFUPM library has resulted in enhancing the quality and efficiency of cataloging work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This selective bibliographic essay on government information on education available at the U.S. Department of Education, National Library of Education, describes a wealth of resources available in print, microform, and/or electronic formats. More specialized library resources- archival collections, expert staff-are touched upon. Emphasis is placed on information generated by the Department of Education or its contractors or grantees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Issues surrounding the purchase of full-text databases by small hospital libraries and the development of standards for acquisitions are the focus of this article. Considerations include library strategic planning, content, material format, duplication, coverage/completeness, ease of use, archiving, licensing/copyright and affordability along with any recommended standards by various library groups including MLA. Potential effects of purchasing decisions, not only on individual libraries, but upon the information delivery system as a whole are described. Finally, full-text database criteria formulation is advocated for inclusion into a library's collection development policy. Available online and print sources relating to these issues are provided for further information. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Many libraries have large collections of electronically available databases including journal article and conference paper indexes, full-text vendor catalogs, and standards databases. Which of these resources are being used and to what level becomes a point of interest. A quick re-direct Web-log has been created to track the number of times a particular link is selected, providing a consistent comparison of different resources. The resulting information can be used to determine if what the library provided is being used and if it can be marketed more effectively, which, ultimately, will aid in a cost/benefit analysis for budget decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Internet has had a profound impact on the way people access and use information, especially in the area of monitoring and protecting human rights. This article reviews the development of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, one of the largest collections of human rights documents available on the web. The focus is on how the collection was built, how it is used to support research and teaching, and how it is maintained. Many of the issues examined in this article are relevant to the development, maintenance, and use of any electronic collection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Access denied turnaway statistics are provided to libraries to help with serials collection development, but very little research about turnaways is available. This article examines the relationship between access denied turnaways and interlibrary loan (ILL) requests at one institution in an attempt to deepen our understanding of turnaways. The study showed that there is a moderate correlation with an overall ILL requests to turnaways ratio of 11.4%. The strength of the relationship and the ILL requests to turnaways ratio do vary depending on the publisher/provider. The article also discusses potential explanations and implications as related to the relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maximizing the current organizational culture and diversity/inclusion practices within CUNY libraries is crucial to retaining highly talented support staff with significant potential for future leadership roles. This research explores equity, diversity, and inclusion within the library profession, with the intention of implementing strategic frameworks to attract, recruit, and retain underrepresented groups within the University. To spotlight areas of upward mobility within CUNY academic libraries, a CUNY-wide Library Workplace Climate survey on the perceptions of diversity, universal inclusion, and career progression was conducted. The scope of the survey study compares the different perspectives of CUNY librarians, full-time library classified paraprofessionals, and part-time classified staff to measure CUNY's commitment to addressing the diversity gap in the library profession. CUNY-wide, 141 library employees participated in a survey study to uncover professional development opportunities in support of career advancement and upward mobility. Nearly 2 in 5 African American/Black library staff-members are paraprofessionals, while 13.5% are faculty. A stark contrast to 3 in 5 or 64% CUNY library faculty, which identified as White/Caucasian. The findings reinforce the need for measures to maximize workplace diversity through support-staff mentoring, guidance, and recruitment. Workplace mentorship and career development—across all levels within CUNY libraries—cultivate skills for a better work environment that can lead to promotion and successful plans for succession. Investing and sustaining structured library professional development opportunities geared toward underrepresented groups—generally in paraprofessional and student-worker roles—will help identify next generation CUNY library leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The awareness of Web sources in reference service has risen in recent years as many reference librarians have become more Internet-minded. During the reference process, we often ask ourselves: can this question be answered by using the Web? The use of Web sources is expanding the amount of available reference information, enhancing individual libraries' collections, and, hence, providing better user service. There are many benefits in using the Web sources in reference service. There are also some drawbacks. Some useful Web sources are reviewed. The Web, when used properly, provides reference librarians with a valuable resource option to help improve their services in an effective manner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Almost fifty years ago, when the organization that now is the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) was founded, university and research libraries were facing issues similar to those challenging them today: lack of space in libraries to shelve growing collections; new library materials formats to absorb into acquisitions budgets; more or more expensive research materials to which patrons needed access. In 1949, higher education looked for solutions in cooperative programs. CRL evolved as a unique endeavor-a program for cooperative collection development and a library that acquires and makes available essential research materials. CRL has endured because of its members' commitment, the gradual building of a unique, centralized library collection, and the organization's capacity to serve as a coordinator for cooperative decisions and implementation of programs. These strengths will support CRL into the future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This narrative celebrates the career of Janet Crayne, the bulk of whose service was at the University of Michigan (U-M). Written by Janet's successor as U-M's Librarian for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, it offers a unique perspective on Janet's many achievements and her legacy at U-M and beyond. Through conversations with Janet and her colleagues, the author finds that, even more than her love of books, her intimate knowledge of the SEEE region, and her belief in the many vital roles that libraries play, what made this great collector truly great was her passion for people and for service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inference after variable selection is a very important problem. This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of many variable selection estimators, such as forward selection and backward elimination, when the number of predictors is fixed. Under strong regularity conditions, the variable selection estimators are asymptotically normal, but generally the asymptotic distribution is a nonnormal mixture distribution. The theory shows that the lasso variable selection and elastic net variable selection estimators are n consistent estimators of β when lasso and elastic net are consistent estimators of β. A bootstrap technique to eliminate selection bias is to fit the variable selection estimator β ̂ V S * to a bootstrap sample to find a submodel, then draw another bootstrap sample and fit the same submodel to get the bootstrap estimator β ̂ MIX *. Bootstrap confidence regions were used for hypothesis testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Spring 2021, the Georgia Tech Library received unexpectedly robust support for the redevelopment of the Library's previously removed Popular Reading Collection. The project had a strict four-month deadline to encumber funds and to ensure that materials were available before the Fall 2021 return to campus. A cross-functional team was established to create and implement a plan to achieve this goal. The successful project resulted in widespread positive feedback from students, Institute partners and leaders, and Library leadership. This case study demonstrates the importance of context in deciding library projects, the utility of cross-functional teams in establishing new collections, and the psychological value of physical materials to campus communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a roundtable discussion on the pedagogical approaches to music encoding. It includes essays from scholars, librarians, and music faculty who use music encoding as a teaching tool. The contributors discuss their experiences teaching music encoding in various settings and highlight the benefits and challenges of incorporating it into the curriculum. The essays emphasize the importance of creating a more inclusive and equitable learning environment through music encoding. The authors provide examples, resources, and case studies to inspire educators to consider integrating music encoding into their teaching practices. [Extracted from the article]

In this study, the two-dimensional (2D), lid-driven cavity flow of chiral liquid crystals (LCs) was modelled using the Landau de-Gennes (LdG) theory. Parametric studies investigating the effect of Er (Ericksen number) and Θ (chiral strength) on the microstructure of chiral LCs were performed. In this study, we observed that an increase in Θ caused the chiral texture to have more striations and shorter pitch lengths as causes for an increased number of defects. When Θ was held constant, an increase in Er disrupted the chiral structure and even broke it at very high Er. Interestingly, a transition from low Er (10) to moderate Er (1,000) increased the number of defects; however, further increases in Er reduced the number of defects since much of the chiral structure was destroyed by the high viscous flow effects. In particular, even at very high Er, the chiral structure and defects were still present as a vortex was always present with lower velocities, where the viscous flow effect was smaller. We also found that a hexagonal structure with penta-hepta defects formed at high chiral strengths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A substantial number of (mostly health care) chaplaincy articles have emphasized the need for chaplaincy outcome research. In this study, we contribute to formulating intrinsic chaplaincy outcomes by first identifying chaplaincy goals. To this end, we have performed a scoping review of Dutch chaplaincy literature. We have focused on articles, books, and dissertations published between 2014 and 2019. Six distinct goals of chaplaincy were identified, using 86 fragments found in 33 sources: worldview vitality and plausibility, processing life events, deepening spirituality, relational affirmation, well-being, and exercising freedom of religion. Several of these main goals could be subdivided into more specific goals. Future research is needed to examine whether the found goals apply equally within the different types of chaplaincy and to examine their interrelations. In addition, future research should examine how these goals are pursued in practice and how they relate to client needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a breakout session at a conference that examined the application of the White Institutional Presence (WIP) framework in acquisitions to promote inclusive and anti-racist collection policies.

(He even offered a critical aside regarding Philip Mirowski - one of the most formidable, adept critics of mainstream "cyborg science" economics ([17]) - faulting him for his "rather distorted reading of many of the leading figures of the institutionalist literature" (Bush [5], 342; Bush [4]). If this seems like hyperbole, I would suggest that skeptical readers consult the 5.75 linear feet of files Bush left to the department of special collection at California State University's library - all meticulously preserved I à i la Bush in six large file boxes (Bush [7]). This, to me, was profoundly important and it led me to another facet of Bush's approach to life: when I first met Bush, and for well over a decade thereafter, Bush epitomized "instrumentalism" in every way. In 1967, I - "impecunious" as Dale Bush frequently described me, using his always-at-hand Veblenian terminology - rolled into what was then "Fresno State" (later rechristened, to the eternal dismay of the provincial old guard, California State University, Fresno). [Extracted from the article]

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity to gauge how much, and why, people value visiting public libraries by asking them about the impact of the library closures. A questionnaire survey was administered to users of four library networks in New South Wales, Australia. About 19% of 1,295 respondents missed their library "a great deal," another 28% "quite a lot." Most commonly respondents missed browsing the shelves, taking children for visits, studying, reading, and socializing there. They also missed the quiet, relaxing, and friendly environment, and the resources provided. For many, the closures impacted their lives in a critical way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature relating to education sessions in special collections has been prevalent in the field since the early 2000s. Following on from the publication of the ACRL-RBMS-SAA Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy published in the USA in 2018, this paper applies the guidelines to survey and interview responses to explore the key skills gained by undergraduates using special collections and the barriers to skills' acquisition throughout their degree programmes. Contextualizing the results through US and UK literature, this paper argues that special collections literacy can be embedded into interdisciplinary undergraduate curricula which in turn may help special collections advocate for increased resources to broaden their education programmes. It establishes a picture of current special collections education for UK universities including range, methods of delivery and assessment styles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In India, the history of education has traversed a unique path in the last hundred years. The political influences guided the discipline, but at the same time, they were also contested and critiqued in equal measures. History of education as a discipline went through four distinct phases. The first phase coincided with the last stage of the freedom movement (1920–1947), which saw a new interpretation of what constituted education from the perspectives of Indian tradition and its contestations. The second phase (1947–1980) began with the collection and publication of official documents with strong introductions analysing the complexity of the history of education in the colonial period. The third phase (1980–1998) revived the arguments that took centre stage during the freedom movement based on literary texts and political speeches. The fourth phase (1998–2020) has witnessed a critical questioning of the historiography of the previous decades on the basis of archival sources and saw the publication of books and journal articles on various themes. This paper looks at these distinct phases and analyses the underlying socio-political currents that moulded the history of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the production, repurposing, and reception of the Miles Brothers' A Trip Down Market Street through five iterations: the original Market Street print, filmed four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr's 1974 Eureka, Darryl Palmer's 1995 experimental essay about Eureka, film historian David Kiehn's 2006 restored print, and Denis Shiryaev's 2020 Youtube 4k version of A Trip Down Market Street. This study argues that the context of a print's re-use and exhibition not only changes its meaning and evokes different responses, but also that the circulation of this text through the 'popcycle' – the ensemble of discourses that sustain institutions and construct identity – facilitates the process of cultural invention at key moments in history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The acquisitions process in academic libraries functions optimally when adequate funds support library needs, local political realities and faculty needs and demands. It often requires careful diplomacy by acquisitions librarians to balance sharp faculty interests, but their needs and demands can and should be used to develop and enrich library collections. This process is traditional in academic libraries, and it should not be regarded as unusual. Rapidly escalating costs for serial subscription over the past five years have consumed larger and larger portions of most academic libraries acquisitions budgets. As a consequence, librarians have less funds available to balance collections. Can the library profession utilize modern technology to reduce, if not eliminate, the problem of high costs for serials? A partial solution to the serials problem is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses the provision of library services to Turkish communities in Canada. Size of the Turkish population in Canada; Formation of the Federation of Canadian Turkish Associations; Collection of books available at the Language and Literature Department of The Metropolitan Reference Library.

Although a literature search yields much data on validity, reliability and construction of educational and psychological tests, little information on test collection management in libraries is available. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign initiated a survey of selected test collections in order to verify that their practices conformed with those of other institutions. An attempt was also made to rank collections and compare staff and budget allocations. The fact that two other institutions were found during the distribution and compilation of the survey to be engaged in a similar activity indicates that there is currently great interest in the management of test collections in libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents archives related to the field of public administration, labor and politics. The Ohio Historical Society has a number of collections of interest to labor historians. The recently published Guide to Primary Sources in Ohio Labor History provides information on many of these collections. Over fifty Ohio labor newspaper titles are available through inter-library loan and more than sixty transcribed oral history interviews can be consulted in the library. Sangamon State University Archives holds the Harry Weinhoeft Papers-a collection of personal papers and union records relating primarily to Springfield, Illinois Local 46 of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The Rhode Island Labor Archives, housed at the Rhode Island Historical Society, has recently acquired the records of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 328A. The Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University has recently accessioned three collections of interest to labor historians.

The National Museum of American History Branch Library, a part of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries system, acquires and maintains a dynamic collection in support of the research pursued in this museum. Subject concentration is in the history of science and technology and American history, with emphasis on material culture and on documenting and servicing the museum's collections. Special collections include trade literature and exposition materials. The library collection is developed and viewed as a national resource, with access available to all scholars in need of its materials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Field Museum of Natural History and its Library were founded in 1894. In support of Museum research the Library specializes in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, botany, geology, palaeontology and zoology, all with a global scope. A rich serials collection and numerous special colelctions make the Library a distinctive resource in the natural sciences. The Library serves both the scientific community and the wider public as a non-circulating reference collection. Through Interlibrary Loan the Library's collections are also available to researchers at virtually all other libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals. One effective means of protection against losses to such criminals is sequestration of intrinsically valuable library and archival materials and making them available through a restricted access reading room. The identification of users of library and archival collections in such reading rooms is carefully authenticated. The actual use of the collections is done under constant staff scrutiny and is well documented. Response to reading room theft should be carefully choreographed but decisive. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The quality of reference assistance for library users seeking information from government publications has recently been called into question. Concurrently, advances in electronic technology offer means to substantially improve access to government information. Colorado State University Libraries has several computer systems available to access its documents collection, which is separately shelved. These systems include RLIN, CARL, NOTIS, and a number of CD-ROM products. Use of each system is examined, and examples of reference inquiries are given. In general, practice at Colorado State indicates that availability of electronic systems does not improve access to government publications and enables reference staff to successfully negotiate documents queries. Fragmentation and privatization of government files, however, threaten to undo the gains thus achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since high school students use both public libraries and media centers for school assignments, this research examined those collections in three separate communities for books relevant to the high school curriculum. Both textbook bibliographies of recommended titles and subject searches of term paper topics were used to identify appropriate titles for English and science courses. Public libraries and media centers both have titles that are appropriate and available for use in the preparation of term papers. Public library collections have quantitatively more titles, while media centers have significantly more books when proportions are compared When textbook bibliographers were searched, there was no discernible pattern in the titles found: Both types of collections have some of the books. In order to devise a collection development strategy, reviews were located for as many of the science textbook titles as possible. Science Books and Films and Choice should be used to identify and purchase science titles before they go out of print. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]