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Book Synopsis Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives captures the energy and optimism that many feel about the future of community-based scholarship, which involves the collaboration of archives, scholars, and Native American communities. The American Philosophical Society is exploring new applications of materials in its library to partner on collaborative projects that assist the cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities. A paradigm shift is driving researchers to reckon with questionable practices used by scholars and libraries in the past to pursue documents relating to Native Americans, practices that are often embedded in the content of the collections themselves. The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society brought together this volume of historical and contemporary case studies highlighting the importance of archival materials for the revitalization of Indigenous languages.Trade Review"In addition to findings from scholarly research, this book offers much practical advice."—E. J. Vajda, Choice“This collection is an important contribution to the area of decolonial thinking as it relates to archives, writing studies, power, and language. Its audiences include scholars across a range of disciplines and education leaders in tribal communities.”—Ellen Cushman, author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s PerseveranceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface by Brian Carpenter Acknowledgments Introduction: Collaborative Research and Language Revitalization: Toward a Relational Ontology across Time and Space Regna Darnell Part 1. Decolonizing Archives Commentary by Robert J. Miller 1. Decolonial Futures of Sharing: “Protecting Our Voice,” Intellectual Property, and Penobscot Nation Language Materials Jane Anderson and James E. Francis Sr. 2. The Legacy of Hunter-Gatherers at the American Philosophical Society: Frank G. Speck, James M. Crawford, and Revitalizing the Yuchi Language Richard A. Grounds 3. Supporting Researchers of Indigenous Vernacular Archives Lisa Conathan Part 2. Revitalization Tools Commentary by Bethany Wiggin 4. Locally Contingent and Community-Dependent: Tools and Technologies for Indigenous Language Mobilization Jennifer Carpenter, Annie Guerin, Michelle Kaczmarek, Gerry Lawson, Kim Lawson, Lisa P. Nathan, Mark Turin 5. Translating American Indian Sign Language from the 1800s to the Present Day Jeffrey Davis Part 3. Power and Language Commentary by Diana E. Marsh 6. “The Indian Republic of Letters”: Scholarly Networks and Indigenous Knowledge in Philology Sean P. Harvey 7. Literacy, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Colonialism: The Making of a Nineteenth-Century Nez Perce Mission Primer Anne Keary 8. Across Space and Time: Letters from the Dakota People, 1838–1878 Gwen N. Westerman and Glenn M. Wasicuna Part 4. Landscape and Language Commentary by Michael Silverstein 9. Cúz̓lhkan Sqwe̓qwel̓ (‘I Am Going to Tell a Story’): Revitalizing Stories to Strengthen Fish, Water, and the Upper St’át’imc Salish Language Sarah Carmen Moritz 10. No Time Like the Present: Living American Indian Languages, Landscapes, and Histories Bernard C. Perley, Margaret Ann Noodin, and Cary Miller Part 5. Creative Collaborations Commentary by Regna Darnell 11. “Going Over” and Coming Back: Reclaiming the Cherokee Singing Book for Contemporary Language Revitalization Sara Snyder Hopkins 12. Teaching Wailaki: Archives, Interpretation, and Collaboration Kayla Begay, Justin Spence, and Cheryl Tuttle Part 6. Transforming Collecting Commentary by Jennifer R. O’Neal 13. Museums and the Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Knowledge Gwyneira Isaac 14. Shriniinlii (‘Fix It’): The Grease Mechanics of Translating Gwich’in Craig Mishler and Kenneth Frank Conclusion: The Power of Words, Relationships, and Archives Mary S. Linn Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives captures the energy and optimism that many feel about the future of community-based scholarship, which involves the collaboration of archives, scholars, and Native American communities. The American Philosophical Society is exploring new applications of materials in its library to partner on collaborative projects that assist the cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities. A paradigm shift is driving researchers to reckon with questionable practices used by scholars and libraries in the past to pursue documents relating to Native Americans, practices that are often embedded in the content of the collections themselves. The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society brought together this volume of historical and contemporary case studies highlighting the importance of archival materials for the revitalization of Indigenous languages.Trade Review"In addition to findings from scholarly research, this book offers much practical advice."—E. J. Vajda, Choice“This collection is an important contribution to the area of decolonial thinking as it relates to archives, writing studies, power, and language. Its audiences include scholars across a range of disciplines and education leaders in tribal communities.”—Ellen Cushman, author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s PerseveranceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface by Brian Carpenter Acknowledgments Introduction: Collaborative Research and Language Revitalization: Toward a Relational Ontology across Time and Space Regna Darnell Part 1. Decolonizing Archives Commentary by Robert J. Miller 1. Decolonial Futures of Sharing: “Protecting Our Voice,” Intellectual Property, and Penobscot Nation Language Materials Jane Anderson and James E. Francis Sr. 2. The Legacy of Hunter-Gatherers at the American Philosophical Society: Frank G. Speck, James M. Crawford, and Revitalizing the Yuchi Language Richard A. Grounds 3. Supporting Researchers of Indigenous Vernacular Archives Lisa Conathan Part 2. Revitalization Tools Commentary by Bethany Wiggin 4. Locally Contingent and Community-Dependent: Tools and Technologies for Indigenous Language Mobilization Jennifer Carpenter, Annie Guerin, Michelle Kaczmarek, Gerry Lawson, Kim Lawson, Lisa P. Nathan, Mark Turin 5. Translating American Indian Sign Language from the 1800s to the Present Day Jeffrey Davis Part 3. Power and Language Commentary by Diana E. Marsh 6. “The Indian Republic of Letters”: Scholarly Networks and Indigenous Knowledge in Philology Sean P. Harvey 7. Literacy, Cross-Cultural Interaction, and Colonialism: The Making of a Nineteenth-Century Nez Perce Mission Primer Anne Keary 8. Across Space and Time: Letters from the Dakota People, 1838–1878 Gwen N. Westerman and Glenn M. Wasicuna Part 4. Landscape and Language Commentary by Michael Silverstein 9. Cúz̓lhkan Sqwe̓qwel̓ (‘I Am Going to Tell a Story’): Revitalizing Stories to Strengthen Fish, Water, and the Upper St’át’imc Salish Language Sarah Carmen Moritz 10. No Time Like the Present: Living American Indian Languages, Landscapes, and Histories Bernard C. Perley, Margaret Ann Noodin, and Cary Miller Part 5. Creative Collaborations Commentary by Regna Darnell 11. “Going Over” and Coming Back: Reclaiming the Cherokee Singing Book for Contemporary Language Revitalization Sara Snyder Hopkins 12. Teaching Wailaki: Archives, Interpretation, and Collaboration Kayla Begay, Justin Spence, and Cheryl Tuttle Part 6. Transforming Collecting Commentary by Jennifer R. O’Neal 13. Museums and the Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Knowledge Gwyneira Isaac 14. Shriniinlii (‘Fix It’): The Grease Mechanics of Translating Gwich’in Craig Mishler and Kenneth Frank Conclusion: The Power of Words, Relationships, and Archives Mary S. Linn Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhat constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators, librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians, curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, Albena Yaneva traces archivinTrade ReviewIt is a book you want to hold in your hands and keep in your collection after reading. * Arkitekturkultur *Overall, this is a rich and detailed study which is clearly of value to students of architecture, architectural history, anthropology and archival science. There is also something here for the museum scholar: the book points to the epistemic nature of collecting and, through its granular study of the processes that act upon and form these collections, reveals the interventions and mediations of individuals in the shaping of knowledge. For those working in and researching all types of collecting and memory institutions there is much here that can inform and provide new insights into how such work forms the basis of learning, scholarship and research. * Museum and Society *Crafting History is a meticulous and captivating study that makes a substantial methodological contribution and will resonate with students and scholars of architectural history and theory, institutions, the anthropology of knowledge, museum studies and related fields. Few scholars have studied with such proximity the tacit, practical systems of "minor" actors in architectural institutions. * Architectural Theory Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Secret Life of Architectural Objects 1. Archive Fevers 2. Architecture and the "Fever" of Archiving 3. A Morning in the Vaults 4. Opening the Crates 5. Politics of Care 6. The Plot of Archiving 7. The Life of an Old Floppy Disk Conclusion: Collections as Sites of Epistemological Reshuffle

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Book SynopsisA novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker It is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age. In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand information, German philosopher Peter Janich argues that our understanding of information is based in the much broader history of scientific naturalism—the belief that science is a fundamental aspect of the world and not a human contrivance. His novel critique of this widespread dogma grounds science in human life practices and wrestles with the very fundamentals of the scientific way of understanding reality.Offering new perspectives on the major contemporary fields of communications technology, neurobiology, and artificial intelligence, What Is Information? provides a deep look into humanity in an information age. Its arguments show ways of reconciling the sciences and the humanities, shining new light on the relationship of science to the natural world.Trade Review"Peter Janich’s What is Information? is a philosophical unicorn. This short, punchy text offers civil defense against philosophical catastrophe. It is a one-stop shop for repairing conceptual sloppiness in how we talk about information. Written with a sly wit, it is not only abstract: its extended meditation on various technologies breaks fresh ground in the philosophy and history of media. Janich joins a multi-tongued chorus proclaiming that bad things happen when we let media get away with pretending to be invisible."—John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental MediaTable of ContentsTranslators’ IntroductionEric Hayot and Lea Pao1. Information and Myth2. Legacies3. Articles of Faith4. Information Concepts Today5. Methodical Repair Work6. ConsequencesTranslators’ AcknowledgmentsNotesPeter Janich: A Partial BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWho has the right to represent Native history? The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuries, non-Native actors have collected, stolen, sequestered, and gained value from Native stories and documents, human remains, and sacred objects. However, thanks to the work of Native activists, Native history is now increasingly being repatriated back to the control of tribes and communities. Indigenous Archival Activism takes readers into the heart of these debates by tracing one tribe’s fifty-year fight to recover and rewrite their history. Rose Miron tells the story of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation and their Historical Committee, a group of mostly Mohican women who have been collecting and reorganizing historical materials since 1968. She shows how their work is exemplary of how tribal archives can be used strategically to shi

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Book SynopsisIt has become increasingly accepted that important digital data must be retained and shared in order to preserve and promote knowledge, advance research in and across all disciplines of scholarly endeavor, and maximise the return on investment of public funds.To meet this challenge, colleges and universities are adding data services to existing infrastructures by drawing on the expertise of information professionals who are already involved in the acquisition, management, and preservation of data in their daily jobs. Data services include planning and implementing good data management practices, thereby increasing researchers’ ability to compete for grant funding and ensuring that data collections with continuing value are preserved for reuse. volume provides a framework to guide information professionals in academic libraries, presses, and data centers through the process of managing research data from the planning stages through the life of a grant project and beyond. It illustrates principles of good practice with use-case examples and illuminates promising data service models through case studies of innovative, successful projects and collaborations. Contributors include: James L. Mullins, Purdue University; MacKenzie Smith, University of California at Davis; Sherry Lake, University of Virginia; Bernard Reilly, Center for Research Libraries; Jacob Carlson, Purdue University; Melissa Levine, University of Michigan; Jenn Riley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jan Brase, German National Library of Science and Technology; Seamus Ross, University of Toronto; Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace; Brian Schottlaender, University of California, San Diego; Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre; Scott Brandt, Purdue University; Brian Westra, University of Oregon; Geneva Henry, Rice University; Gail Steinhart, Cornell University; and Cliff Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information.Trade Review"This book represents a foundational contribution from the guardians of institutional data that will give confidence to those who appreciate the huge potential of data based research in seeking solutions to global and societal challenges in the future." John Wood, Secretary-General, Association of Commonwealth Universities and European Chair of the Research Data AllianceTable of Contents Introduction to Research Data Management, Joyce M. Ray PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE POLICY CONTEXT The Policy and Institutional Framework, James L. Mullins Data Governance: Where Technology and Policy Collide, MacKenzie Smith PART 2: PLANNING FOR DATA MANAGEMENT The Use of Life Cycle Models in Developing and Supporting Data Services, Jake Carlson Data Management Assessment and Planning Tools, Andrew Sallans and Sherry Lake Trustworthy Data Repositories: The Value and Benefits of Auditing and Certification, Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., and Marie E. Waltz PART 3: MANAGING PROJECT DATA Copyright, Open Data, and the Availability-Usability Gap: Challenges, Opportunities, and Approaches for Libraries, Melissa Levine Metadata Services, Jenn Riley Data Citation: Principles and Practice, Jan Brase, Yvonne Socha, Sarah Callaghan, Christine L. Borgman, Paul F. Uhlir, and Bonnie Carroll PART 4: ARCHIVING AND MANAGING RESEARCH DATA IN REPOSITORIES Assimilating Digital Repositories Into the Active Research Process,Tyler Walters Partnering to Curate and Archive Social Science Data, Jared Lyle, George Alter, and Ann Green Managing and Archiving Research Data:Local Repository and Cloud-Based Practices, Michele Kimpton and Carol Minton Morris Chronopolis Repository Services, David Minor, Brian E. C. Schottlaender, and Ardys Kozbial PART 5: MEASURING SUCCESS Evaluating a Complex Project: DataONE, Suzie Allard What to Measure? Toward Metrics for Research Data Management, Angus Whyte, Laura Molloy, Neil Beagrie, and John Houghton PART 6: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: CASE STUDIES An Institutional Perspective on Data Curation Services: A View from Cornell University,Gail Steinhart Purdue University Research Repository: Collaborations in Data Management, D. Scott Brandt Data Curation for the Humanities: Perspectives From Rice University, Geneva Henry Developing Data Management Services for Researchers at the University of Oregon, Brian Westra CLOSING REFLECTIONS: LOOKING AHEAD The Next Generation of Challenges in the Curation of Scholarly Data, Clifford Lynch About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of case studies as well as useful analysis of the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other’s acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a close working relationship with another unit to support their work. This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each other within a consortium, and how they work with other library units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A final section of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration.

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Book SynopsisArtfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012. Providing context and commentary, Hansen has assembled the letters by the following themes: religion and belief; anger, disappointment, and disillusionment; quacks, conspiracy theorists, and ufologists; fellow astronauts and the world of flight; the corporate world; celebrities, stars, and notables; and last messages.Taken together, both collections provide fascinating insights into the world of an iconic hero who took that first giant leap onto lunar soil willingly and thereby stepped into the public eye with reluctance. Space enthusiasts, historians, and lovers of all things related to flight will not want to miss this book.Table of Contents PREFACE 1. RELIGION AND BELIEF 2. ANGER, DISAPPOINTMENT, AND DISILLUSIONMENT 3. QUACKS, CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, AND UFOLOGISTS 4. FELLOW ASTRONAUTS AND THE WORLD OF FLIGHT 5. THE CORPORATE WORLD 6. CELEBRITIES, STARS, AND NOTABLES 7. LETTERS FROM A GRIEVING WORLD NOTES

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era. Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression of individual and societal self-understanding. Through collections, cultures learn and grow. The introduction of digital technology has accelerated this process and at the same time changed how, what, and why we collect. Ever-expanding storage capacities and the accumulation of unprecedented amounts of data are part of a highly complex information economy in which collecting has become even more important for the formation of the past, present, and future. Museums, libraries, and archives have adapted to the requirements of a digital environment, as has anyone who browses the internet and stores information on hard drives or cloud servers. In turn, companies follow the digital footprint we leave behind. Today, collecting includes not only physical objects but also the binary code that allows for their virtual representation on screen. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century identifies the impact of technology, both new and old, on the cultural practice of collecting as well as the challenges and opportunities of collecting in the digital era. Scholars from German Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Sound Studies, Information Technology, and Art History as well as librarians and preservationists offer insights into the most recent developments in collecting practices.Trade Review[T]he theoretical underpinnings, issues raised, and points made throughout the volume are useful beyond their immediate applications. They pose questions of access, data collection, ethics, and economics that will interest scholars of the history of collections, museum studies, digital humanities, library and information sciences, and related fields of literary theory and criticism and media studies. -- J. Decker * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Collecting in the Digital Age - Christoph Zeller 1: Collecting: Defining the Subject - Johannes Endres PART I. Spaces of Collecting 2: Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age - Boris Groys 3: Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a Digital Environment? - Michael Knoche 4: Museums and Collecting as/and Media in the Digital Age - Peter M. McIsaac PART II. Recollection 5: Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading - Nikolaus Wegmann 6: Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data - Clifford B. Anderson 7: Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra - Erin L. Thompson 8: Conservation in the Digital Age - Jessica Walthew PART III. Virtuality 9: Music and the Limits of Collectibility - Rolf J. Goebel 10: Cat Art and Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene - Edward Dawson PART IV. Economics 11: Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the Internet - Roberto Simanowski 12: Data Collection in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Douglas C. Schmidt Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisArchive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history—by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missing,” or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change.Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis’s personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis’s first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library in the papers of President Johnson’s personal secretary, sealed until her death at age 105. Mattachine’s signature discovery is a federal attorney’s classified assault blandly filed under “Suitability” at the National Archives: “What it boils down to is that most men look upon homosexuality as something uniquely nasty.” Archive Activism is not only a memoir but also an essential roadmap for activists from any group armed only with their library cards.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book. Although it is a memoir, it is also a handbook for ordinary folks—whether LGBTQ or not—to engage in everyday activism. It can be applicable to any group that has been erased from the mainstream historical archive because of their nonnormative status. This is a recovery project of a particular silenced and erased history of gays and lesbians in the United States.”—Gust A. Yep, coeditor of Queer Theory and Communication and LGBT Studies and Queer Theory “Charles Francis has written a magnificently cinematic memoir of a life of anxiety, commitment, and outright fun, populated by characters from Jayne Mansfield to David Rockefeller to George W. Bush. Charles brought gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s papers to the Library of Congress, uncovered Nancy Reagan’s refusal to help a dying Rock Hudson, and found the roots of Executive Order 10450, which in 1954 declared homosexual ‘perversion’ a national security threat. Charles Francis engages his readers at once and takes them on a ride that is, at turns, horrifying, uplifting, and delightful.”—Ambassador (ret.) James K. Glassman, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas “The National Archives greets visitors with the Shakespearean stone inscription: WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE. In this lively, impassioned memoir, Charles Francis puts it with a very American plain-spokenness: ‘The key to Archive Activism is not only finding the stuff, but using it . . . to make the world a better place.’ I can’t think of another book that better conveys the excitements and real-life results that can be obtained by the citizen-scholar.”—Thomas Mallon, author of Fellow Travelers and Mrs. Paine’s Garage “An intimate memoir and a stirring rallying cry, Archive Activism is required reading for anyone fighting the erasure of a community’s history. From the Eisenhower Administration to the January 6th insurrection, this book shows us how the first drafts of history are written—and crucially, he explains how we as citizens can correct them. His work to recover buried history has been essential for activists and historians alike, gifting us the opportunity to learn firsthand from the queer pioneers who paved the way for our generation. Without Charles Francis, my book and so many others like it would not have been possible. Archive Activism is an urgent, inspiring text that belongs on every bookshelf.”—Eric Cervini, author of The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America “The Rainbow Community has a courageous and noble history which should never be forgotten. Charles Francis significantly assisted in making that history--his new book is essential reading for those who need to be inspired by our history. Charles is that rare person who is a brilliant story teller, historian, and activist. I am honored to know him.”--David Mixner, author of Stranger Among FriendsArchive Activism describes the efforts by author Charles Francis and his supporters to uncover long hidden documents, among other things, revealing how LGBTQ federal workers were forced out of their jobs in the 1950s and 1960s. . . .Francis describes in the book his early archive activism efforts that included co-founding the Kameny Papers Project, which arranged for the Library of Congress to acquire the voluminous collection of the documents of Frank Kameny."--Washington Blade

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Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.

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Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.

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Book SynopsisThis title covers important historical documents from influential figures in Native American history. Readers will find in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents, including speeches, letters, legislation, court cases, and other sources about Native Americans. The set provides detailed, thought-provoking analysis of: Iroquois Thanksgiving Address Tecumseh: Speech to Governor Willian Henry Harrison Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal Zitkala-Sa: Old Indian Legends Each in-depth chapter guides readers with historical insight and comprehension. Written by historians and teachers, several elements explain the document’s historical impact and provide thoughtful critical analysis, including a Summary Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Document Analysis, and Essential Themes. Plus, an historical timeline and bibliography of important supplemental readings will support readers in understanding the broader historical events covered.From the first meetings between Native Americans and European settlers to twentieth-century events, this set provides thoughtful analysis of documents and speeches allowing readers to gain a better understanding of this crucial topic in American history. An important resource for the history collections of high schools, undergraduate libraries and public libraries.

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Book SynopsisAs it continues to publish work that is relevant for both researchers and library practitioners, Volume 30 of "Advances in Library Administration and Organization" contains articles describing efforts at cooperation and collaboration within the library profession. This volume includes scholarship that illustrates both concepts, best defined in one of the chapters as terms 'often used loosely to describe relationships among entities or people working together.' Topics explored within the volume include an examination of public and academic libraries as places that provide purposeful spaces specific to providing user need fulfilment; library services in juvenile detention centers; and, the contribution of school library media specialists. The development of electronic institutional repositories, primarily in academic libraries and based on efforts to encourage campus community involvement and partnerships between librarians and the faculty they serve is discussed. Successful fund raising in libraries is explored through the examination of the impact of organizational placement of the library development officer in universities.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction. A Critical Analysis of the Discourse on Academic Libraries as Learning Places. The Rural Public Library as Place: A Theoretical Analysis. A Framework for Institutional Repository Development. Interagency Cooperation in Juvenile Detention Center Library Services: An Introduction to the Issues. Perceptions of School Library Media Specialists Regarding the Practice of Instructional Leadership. The Perceptions of High School Teachers on the Roles and Responsibilities of Library Media Specialists. About the Authors. Advances in library administration and organization. Advances in library administration and organization. Advances in library administration and organization. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisCrisis, Credibility and Corporate History aims to describe current expectations and strategies held within companies, within academia and amongst the general public for using a company’s history for communication and marketing purposes. Ranging widely across case studies from major international businesses such as IBM, Maersk and Roche, this timely volume includes contributions from marketing specialists, corporate archivists and scholars. The book is the first in a new series in partnership with the International Council on Archives, an international organisation with membership in around 200 countries. For over sixty years the Council has united archival institutions and practitioners across the globe to advocate for good archival management and to encourage dialogue, exchange, and transmission of this knowledge and expertise across national borders. Essential reading for business historians, archivists and marketing professionals, Crisis, Credibility and Corporate History presents a clear picture of what writing “corporate history” today involves.Table of ContentsForeword by David A. Leitch, Secretary General of the ICA 1. Marking Out the Extremes in Corporate History Stick or Twist? Or: What Has the Company Ever Taught Us? - Jonathan Steffen Business History or Corporate Communication - Professor Clemens Wischermann 2. Novel Approaches in Corporate History: Selected Examples Objective? Me? - Henning Morgen Do the Archivists Have the Right to do History? - By Dr. Lionel Loew 3. Historical Writing: No More Tales of Heroes and Myths! The Application of Social Science Theories in Corporate History - Dr. Thilo Jungkind The Biographer’s Power and Private Archives - Professor Birgitte Possing Company history as an opportunity and challenge for university academics: the example of the Günther Quandt group from the nineteenth century to 1954 - Professor Joachim Scholtyseck 4. Scientific Credibility and Getting Across the Message: Can we Bridge the Gap? Between Credibility, Mutual Trust and Corporate Interests: Regional Business Archives as Partners of Historical Research and Economic Business - Dr. Karl-Peter Ellerbrock Don’t Waste your Money! Forget a Jubilee Book! - Dr. Thomas Inglin 5. The Global Scale of Corporate History: Changing Expectations in Changing Environments Archives and Collections in the 21st Century: From Drab to Sexy? - Alexander L. Bieri The View from the Ivory Tower: The Academic Perspective on the Strategic Value of Corporate History and Heritage - Paul Lasewicz, IBM Inc. 75 Years of Toyota: Toyota Motor Corporation’s Latest Shashi and Trends in the Writing of Japanese Corporate History - Yuko Matsuzaki Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEngland is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage – the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from the perspective of the archives themselves. Beginning in the early Middle Ages and ending in modern times, it draws on the author’s extensive knowledge and experience as both archivist and historian, and presents the subject in a very readable and lively way. Some archives, notably those of government and the Established Church, have remarkably continuous histories. But all have suffered over time from periods of neglect and decay, and some have come to sudden and violent ends. Among the destructive episodes discussed in the book are the Viking raids of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Norman Conquest, the Peasants’ Revolt, the dissolution of the monasteries and the bombing raids of the Second World War. Archivists and historians have a shared interest in the protection and study of the country’s surviving records. This book has been written for members of both professions, but also for every reader who cares about the preservation of England’s past.

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Book SynopsisEngland is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage – the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from the perspective of the archives themselves. Beginning in the early Middle Ages and ending in modern times, it draws on the author’s extensive knowledge and experience as both archivist and historian, and presents the subject in a very readable and lively way. Some archives, notably those of government and the Established Church, have remarkably continuous histories. But all have suffered over time from periods of neglect and decay, and some have come to sudden and violent ends. Among the destructive episodes discussed in the book are the Viking raids of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Norman Conquest, the Peasants’ Revolt, the dissolution of the monasteries and the bombing raids of the Second World War. Archivists and historians have a shared interest in the protection and study of the country’s surviving records. This book has been written for members of both professions, but also for every reader who cares about the preservation of England’s past.

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Book SynopsisTaking its title from Howard Carter's famous description of his first glimpse of the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, this book offers a timeless portrait of highlights representing the range of the Bodleian Library's unique collections.Table of ContentsPreface English Literature Six Books from SIx Centuries Medieval Manuscripts Books Printed before 1501 The Music Collections Western Manuscripts 16th to 18th Centuries The Map Collections The Oriental Collections Modern Political Papers Envoy: Glimpses of the Future

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In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting “Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work” in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book historical research and library activities in China has been presented by more than sixty papers. This fine selection reflects the width and depth of this extremely important and immense Chinese heritage.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch enthält insgesamt 730 Biographien der zwischen 1803 und 1932 an der Universität Heidelberg lehrenden Ordinarien, außerordentlichen Professoren und Honorarprofessoren. Es ist die zweite Auflage des 1986 erstmals erschienenen „Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803–1932“ und stellt den Vorläufer- sowie Fortsetzungsband der bereits publizierten Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexika 1386–1651, 1652–1802 und 1933–1986 dar. Die Eckdaten 1803 und 1932 markieren zum einen den Übergang der bisherigen pfälzischen Universität an Baden und der Reorganisation der Universität ab 1803 sowie zum anderen die nachhaltige Veränderung des wissenschaftlich-geistigen Profils der Ruperto-Carola durch die „Säuberung“ des Dritten Reichs nach 1932. Aufbau und Anlage der Biographien bleiben auch in der 2. Auflage – wie in den bereits erschienenen Gelehrtenlexika – unverändert. Dadurch sind alle Bände 1386–1986 für prosopographische Untersuchungen prädestiniert. Die Informationen zum akademischen Lebenslauf, zu Werkverzeichnis, Sekundärliteratur und über Familienangehörige der Biographierten wurden erheblich erweitert.Table of Contents730 Biographien von Heidelberger Professoren der Jahre 1803 bis 1932

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Book SynopsisSteffen Rudolph widmet sich in seiner Studie der empirischen Untersuchung digitaler Ungleichheiten mit dem besonderen Fokus auf Partizipation im Internet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer an Pierre Bourdieu anknüpfenden Perspektive zeigt sich, dass nicht nur der Zugang, sondern auch der unterschiedliche Gebrauch des Internets deutlich von der sozialen Position der Akteure abhängig ist und bei der aktiven Gestaltung des Internets Benachteiligung sowie Exklusion drohen. Entgegen der Hoffnung auf eine vorwiegend horizontale gesellschaftliche Ausdifferenzierung bleiben mit Blick auf die verschiedenen Internetpraktiken die klassischen vertikalen Ungleichheitsdimensionen auch weiterhin relevant.Trade Review“... Zusammenfassend liegt eine Arbeit vor, die ihre Stärke im theoretischen Teil entfaltet ... ist die sehr zugängliche Einführung in das Habitus-Konzept sowie die gründliche Aufarbeitung der Divide-Forschung einem breiteren Publikum in unserem Fach zu empfehlen ...” (Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé, in: Publizistik, Jg. 56, 2020)Table of Contents​Der InhaltSoziologische Ungleichheitsforschung.- Habitus, Kapital und sozialer Raum.- Forschungsfeld Digital Divide.- Empirische Analyse digitaler Ungleichheiten.- Empirische Analyse der partizipativen Internetpraktiken.

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Book SynopsisExplore Vietnam’s rich literary and graphic design history. Vietnam has a strong literary culture that dates back to Confucian influence and has remained important today. Using Vietnamese books, documents, and manuscripts from the collection of the British Library, Vietnam Documented gives a window into that heritage and represents key incidents in Vietnamese social, cultural, and political history. It also highlights the visual sophistication of Vietnamese design, drawing on Chinese and French models and socialist styles in art and design. An informative text by the long-time Keeper of the Vietnamese collection, Sud Chonchirdsin, introduces the book. Among the earliest documents in the Library's collection is a 17th-century royal letter to the English East India Company. Other highlights include a travel diary of a member of one of the last of Vietnam's tribute missions to the Imperial court in China (1880) and a beautifully illustrated manuscript of the classic Tale of KiÊ`u. The strength of the collection lies in materials collected during Vietnam's twentieth-century struggle for independence—including rare periodicals from North Vietnam—that show how artists were mobilized in wartime. This accessible, full-color introduction to an under-appreciated design heritage is a welcome view into a beautiful culture.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionThe formation of the Vietnamese collectionVietnamese manuscriptsVietnamese theatreFifty shades of Kiê`uMythical creatures in Vietnamese cultureVietnam and dragonsEarly dictionaries of Southeast Asian languagesClasses and costume in traditional Vietnamese societyVietnamese traditional marketsVietnam War artWomen and the Vietnam WarChildren in the Vietnam WarWar cartoons and propaganda from North VietnamAnniversary of the end of the Vietnam WarVietnamese collection milestone:Retroconversion of the card catalogueBibliography

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