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1. The Web and I; or, Ask Not What You Can Do For the Internet, But What the Internet Can Do For You.

Author

MacDonald, Sara J.

Subjects
DIALOG (Information retrieval system), ONLINE databases, INTERNET, ELECTRONIC information resource searching, ACADEMIC libraries
Abstract

The article discusses the benefits of DIALOG online database searching and the Internet being offered at the University of the Arts Library in Pennsylvania. It states that undergraduate students account for the majority of DIALOG searching at the library. It cites the interest of students in the demonstration of search techniques using the World Wide Web. It stresses that the Internet is the most-used tool in the library after the online catalog.

Published
1997
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2. Otto F. Ege: Teacher, Collector, and Biblioclast.

Author

Porcheddu, Fred

Subjects
COLLECTORS & collecting, ACADEMIC libraries, PUBLIC schools
Abstract

A biography of Otto Frederick Ege, a teacher, collector, biblioclast of Pennsylvania is presented. He was born in 1888 in Pennsylvania and studied at Reading High School. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio and spent 31 years as a resident of that city and served as the Cleveland Institute of Art dean. Otto Ege's intention was to sell his boxed manuscript portfolios to public and university libraries so that many people could learn about the history of bookmaking and decoration in the pre-modern period.

Published
2007
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