Taylor, Jane H. M.Journal of the Early Book Society
We’ve been allowed back in the building after almost 2 months of sheltering in place due to COVID 19. I am so excited to see my coworkers and get back to some semblance of normal. So far we’re not officially open to the public as we are taking this in-between time to do invent...
(specifically in relation to public libraries) its funding of the Public Library Inquiry conducted by the Social Science Research Council during the late 1940s. The inquiry, initially recommended by the American Library Association, was a major midcentury research endeavor that resulted in the ...
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the time. That, and the offhand reply to a query on Economics at a library (“It’s at 330” before the member of staff returned to his chat with a colleague) has always stayed with me as a lesson in how important customer service is. After all, I still remember it 40 years on....
The shift in academic and public interest in cultural heritage and its role in society, which began in the late 20th century, has only begun to affect Leiden University Libraries (UBL) – holder of the world’s second largest Indonesian cultural heritage collection – in the last decade. The...
The talk’s description argues that performances of Latin drama, a mainstay of a Jesuit education, took on new significance in the late nineteenth century as a means “not only of student formation, but also of self-promotion and self-defense” during a contentious time in American Catholic ...
The Suzhou No 2 Library, which opened in late 2019, was the first Chinese library to embrace the smart book storage and retrieval system. "As more local governments place enriching cultural life high on their agenda, we are seeing grow...
Late unpacking, therefore, is also an inconvenience to our patrons. Managing volunteers is a tricky business since they are doing us a favor and we need to accommodate their schedules, but for time-sensitive tasks the volunteer manager needs to put in a little extra thought and consideration ...
This column is the last known original work from the late Kean MacOwan, who wrote this weekly feature for the Herald Journal for many years. He was preparing to send it for use in the Feb. 12 edition when he fell gravely ill. MacOwan passed away March 4. He was president of the ...