There are so many potential biographical resources that it is very difficult to narrow it down to five. There are general biographical resources, resources for people currently living, resources for the recently dead, the long dead, sources for people of particular countries, ethnicities, genders, people who were scientists or artists or sports figures – you…
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Reference Interviews
Face to Face Reference Interviews I choose to visit the City College of San Francisco’s Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library. While this library is a service directly toward the students it is also open to San Francisco residents. Some services are not available to all of the public, but certain circulation service are permitted to…
ARTstor
Presented by Anissa Malady via elluminate LIBR 210 Reference Information Services November 3, 2009 Bibliographic Instruction
ARTstor
ARTstor was created in the late 90s to address the oncoming need to have a shared digital image database for scholarly use. The database, which is only accessible through educational institutes, hosts more than one million images for use by scholars, researchers, students, curators, museumologists and those in the field of education. The site was…
Adventures in xml and cascading style sheets.
This is a basic webpage I designed for LIBR 240 Information Tech tools and Applications. This was an initial assignment that consisted of a basic XML and CSS structure to create the site. Curatorial Statement by James R. Hugunin for Discipline and Photograph: The Prison Experience The Peace Museum, 314 W. Institute Pl., Chicago, Illinois 13 September –…
Digital Storytelling
According to Wikipedia “digital storytelling” stems from the ideas of “grassroots” movements. It incorporates the concepts of traditional oral tradition of relating ones story or a story important to them, but for the most part a “true story.” The definition of what “digital storytelling” must be a loose interpretation, based on the technology and human…
Two Libraries: A Critical Analysis of Public Service
Anissa Malady Steve Tash LIBR 200 March 07, 2009 Abstract In this critical analysis I have chosen to examine two very different extremes of public libraries. The first is the San Francisco Public Library and the second is the Holt Labor Library both located in San Francisco. Both of these libraries mission is to serve…
Library Associations
There is a library association for nearly every possible type of library, nationally and internationally. Many of these have a closed institutional membership decree, but many more are open to individual membership. Often these associations feature a national coalition, as well as regional and state divisions. Associations are based on types of: Environment: academic, public,…
The American Library Association
Melvil Dewey, Justin Winsor, C. A. Cutter, Samuel S. Green, James L. Whitney, Fred B. Perkins, and Thomas W. Bicknell issued a call to librarians to form a professional organization. During what was known as the “Convention of Librarians,” held October 4-6 during the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 with October 6th marking the…
Art Libraries Society of North America
The Art Libraries Society of North America was founded in 1972 as a way to better communicate and cooperate among art librarians. Their objective was to provide a forum for ideas, projects and specialty programs.ARLIS/NA addresses the needs of art libraries and information professionals, by supporting the advancement of the profession, pursuing partnerships with other…
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