Althochdeutsche glossen zur regula pastoralis

_x000D_

The art of taking notes at the university: étienne gaudet (paris, ca. 1320–1392)

The library of Étienne Gaudet has preoccupied scholars in the field of medieval history and philosophy. It arose the interest of Palémon Glorieux, who misattributed some of the manuscripts from this library to Jean de Falisca. The error was later corrected by Zénon Kaluza in his seminal work dedi...

Changing patterns of scholarship and the future of research libraries

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

The past, present, and future of libraries

In October 2018, the Amer, Philosophical Soc. (APS) gathered a group of scholars, library professionals, & thought leaders to discuss the past, present, & future of the library. This also marked the 275th ann’y. of the APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin & several friends. Topics includ...

The university library in the united states

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Immigrant tongues

Tracing the Journey of Global Languages Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world. Perfect for fans of linguistics gifts and etymology dictionaries, this book combin...

Philadelphia libraries

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Texts and their traditions in the medieval library of rochester cathedral priory

Bibliography and pseudo-bibliography

Important considerations in identifying editions, with some bibliographical absurdities; book catalogues; and a discussion of essayists, particularly Montaigne and Lamb.

Library of lewis henry morgan and mary elizabeth morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was America’s leading ethnologist in his day, & his scholarship played a role of exceptional importance during the critical period of the 1860s-1880s when anthropology was beginning to crystalize as a specialized field of research. Contents of this vol.: Lewis H...

Art, science, invention

Charles Willson Peale was the owner of the nation’s first successful natural history museum. The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS) Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent APS Museum exhibitions included select...

A bibliography of thomas gray, 1917-1951

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Standards of bibliographical description

In a departure from the earlier practice of having a single lecturer for the A. W. S. Fellowship in Bibliography series, three distinguished bibliographers were invited, each of whom was identified with a distinct and significant field. The three fields selected, namely fifteenth-century printed ...

Catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of the university of pennsylvania to 1800

This descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts dating to 1800 housed in the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania was begun in 1960 and was printed in six issues of The Library Chronicle. Actual use of the catalogue led to the revision of some of the entries, additions, and correctio...

New guide to the collections in the library of the american philosophical society

This guide incorp. entries from the guide pub. in 1966 (Memoirs of the APS, Vol. 66). The earlier entries have been updated and listings for all new collections, microfilm holdings, sound recordings (esp. in Native Amer. lang.), and maps are now included. Since the first guide, the Library has in...

A bibliography of james t. farrell's writings, 1921-1957

"I need an audience—-so watch out!" With these James T. Farrell announced his intention of becoming a writer. He was to realize this ambition in manifold ways through his prolificacy, versatility, and his achieved recognition as a formidable figure in American literature. The material contained i...

Preserving useful knowledge

This book traces the history of collections care at the American Philosophical Society (APS) as revealed through its minute books, treasurers’ receipts, and librarians’ correspondence. It also examines the physical evidence presented by books and documents that were repaired by former restorers a...

General subject-indexes since 1548

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Moving archives

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theore...

Unpacking the personal library

Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultur...

Communities, archives and new collaborative practices

This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive. Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources hav...

An annotated bibliography for taiwan film studies

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship. It catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwa...

Scattered and fugitive things

Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of the Black collectors who dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south.

Conservatism, the right wing, and the far right [four-volume set]

This unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism, the right wing, and the far right, offering a detailed overview of primary sources including documents, film, video, sound recordings, microfilm and microfiche, cartoons, sheet music, newspaper art, and more in mo...

Duchamp is my lawyer

In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining th...

Advances in library administration and organization

The book will examine the challenges that working administrators face and discusses how to enable them to look more closely at their operations and to reconsider how to develop people and the organizations in which they work. As in previous volumes of Advances in Library Administration and Org...

Continuing change, constant engagement

Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environment, impact, and future directions of academic libraries in the Caribbean, presenting a fresh approach to global academic library literature, a uniquely Caribbean voice, and a futures mindset, while bridging critical gaps and ch...

Librarianship in times of crisis

The field of librarianship has undergone traumatic shifts (mostly downward) due to the global financial meltdown that began in 2008. This title addresses the ripple effects of the economic recession from the point of view of librarianship, the need for advocacy, and the necessity to tout the valu...

Advances in library administration and organization

Dealing with the subject of organizational theory and library administration, this title covers topics such as: managing change in research libraries; the agility of library consortia and its member libraries; the evaluation of reference services; and, developing a recruitment strategy for a dive...

The new metrics

New methods in bibliometrics and alternative metrics provide us with information about research impact at both increasingly granular and global levels. Here, editor Elaine Lasda and a cast of expert contributors present a variety of case studies that demonstrate the practical utilization of these...

The future of library space

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will focus on the future of library spaces. Libraries are dealing with unprecedented changes on several fronts and these factors understandably impact physical library space. Looking toward the future what changes can we expect ...

Accessibility for persons with disabilities and the inclusive future of libraries

With contributions from researchers, educators, and practitioners from across a range of fields, this volume will be an important resource for library professionals in all types of libraries as well as a reference for researchers and educators about the efforts, challenges and opportunities relat...

Advances in library administration and organization

Adapts theory to practice in areas of interest to those who manage libraries. This volume offers articles covering a demographic study of Canadian librarianship, the implementation of ISO9000 in Thailand, pieces on information literacy programs in the United States, and a discussion of organizati...

Advances in library administration and organization

Suitable for librarians and library managers in academic institutions, this title covers advances in library administration and organization. It collects articles that draw upon practical situations to illustrate administrative principles.

Libraries and reading

In a climate of tightened budgets and severe demands on public literacy resources, Conner and Plocharczyck go to the foundations of social justice in Cultural Studies to show how the means of integrating those with disabilities into libraries and communities can be found in our everyday practices.

Advances in library administration and organization

Suitable for librarians and library managers in academic institutions, this title covers advances in library administration and organization. It collects articles that draw upon practical situations to illustrate administrative principles.

Proposition 13 – america’s second great tax revolt

California’s controversial property tax law, Proposition 13, is considered one of the most significant tax revolts in American history. Libraries, facing decreased funding, were pushed to reset priorities, rethink operations, and learn a new activism. Their struggle left many lessons from which t...

Library staffing for the future

This latest volume contains approaches from researchers around the world. The chapters explore such issues as skills-building and other professional development activities, changing demographic profiles of staff, changing modes of resource provision, succession planning, remote work, and planning...

Loex of the west

Part of a series which discusses the foundations of library and information science, this volume discusses such topics as shifts in the electronic, education and library landscape, designing instruction on the electronic frontier and incorporating information technologies instruction.

Stories and lessons from the world’s leading opera, orchestra librarians, and music archivists, volume 2

The collection Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of per...

New directions in information organization

New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization.

The organization of knowledge

Through different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of informatio...

Developing people's information capabilities

Developing People's Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts is Vol 8 of the well regarded Library and Information Science Series. This book hones in on accessible issues across different work and educational contexts and is of valu...

Building community engagement and outreach in libraries

An important addition to the research on how libraries can work with their communities to provide critical services and resources. Providing valuable insights about the diverse ways that outreach can be accomplished within and through communities, this volume serves as a significant resource for ...

Reading workplace dynamics

Reading Workplace Dynamics offers a renewed ethos for public librarianship synthesizing frontline practitioner outcomes with scholarship via a blend of chapters presenting innovative and bold testimony on ways in which COVID-19 forever changed public librarianship.

Perspectives on libraries as institutions of human rights and social justice

Edited by Ursula Gorham, Natalie Greene Taylor, and Paul T. Jaeger, Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice is an edited volume from the Advances in Librarianship book series devoted to the ideals, activities, and programs in libraries that protect human right...

Re-envisioning the mls

At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians—and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. This book continues the critical conversations around preparing future librarians.

Antiracist library and information science

Critical, scholarly, and reflective perspectives on the theory, practice and progress made towards achieving antiracism in the various domains of Library and Information Science and towards creating racial justice in communities through the work of information professionals.

Genre and ethnic collections

This is a specific grouping of articles in the area of collection development. The first part covers genres, each chapter being an examination of each genre in a library science context. The second part of the book examines the ethnic aspect.

Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons

Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.

The emerald handbook of modern information management

This handbook aims to be an integral text for students of library and information science and a ready-reference for information professional practitioners. The chapters provide a construct through which any information professional may learn abut the major challenges facing them in the early part...

After excessive teacher and faculty entitlement

This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the ‘conundrums’ affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of excessive entitlement.

Advances in collection development and resource management

Includes papers that cover organizational shifts, interlibrary lending and borrowing, preservation, and budgeting for administrators, educators and students.

Contexts for assessment and outcome evaluation in librarianship

This themed volume focuses not on the how of undertaking assessment and outcome evaluations, but rather on their successes and failures in various contexts in which these tools have been and will be used.

Advances in library administration and organization

How does the disintegration of the Soviet system help us to understand the character of library and information institutions and practices within post-soviet space? This title brings together diverse reflective essays, reports and empirical analyses of the changing character of the post-soviet li...

Trauma-informed leadership in libraries

Trauma-informed approaches to leadership seek to understand and consider an individual’s holistic life experiences, particularly negative consequences of trauma, when determining how to best support and interact with them in the workplace.

Advances in library administration and organization

Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.

Assessment tools for successful library evaluations

This is an essential guide for professionals involved in evaluating library operations or teaching assessment methods.& Contributions offer clear, detailed descriptions of key assessment and evaluation techniques, complemented by practical examples that demonstrate how these principles can be...

Lgbtq+ librarianship in the 21st century

Libraries are at the heart of many of the communities they serve. Increasingly, it is important for them to adjust to serve minority groups, including LGBTQ+ communities. This collection presents original scholarship on the emerging directions of advocacy and community engagement in LGBTQ+ librar...

All that's not fit to print

Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. In All That’s Not Fit to Print, Amy Affelt offers tools and techniques for spotting fake news and discusses best practices for finding high quality sources, information, and data.

Fund raising for nonprofit institutions

Fund Raising for Nonprofit Institutions

Challenging the “jacks of all trades but masters of none” librarian syndrome

This volume will explore the current purpose of librarianship and libraries, how we become “Masters of our Domains”, develop expertise in various elements of the profession, and how we extend outward into our communities.

A critical look at information science and librarianship in a new age

What sets this book apart is its direct confrontation of the status quo and aggressively re/claims intellectual space for "others". This is the only book to critique the entire discipline of Information Science from as many angles as possible in one volume and as far outside of the traditional or...

Mergers and alliances

Volume 37 of Advances in Librarianship presents detailed examples of local and regional mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation. This volume is a...

Libraries and the global retreat of democracy

Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate their work in political and information literacy and how these efforts can be improved, the recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.

Data curation and information systems design from australasia

The need for decolonizing mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples’ materials and knowledge has been widely recognised. Authors from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds powerfully challenge entrenched assumptions of knowledge capture a...

Advances in library automation and networking

Presents articles on the technical, organizational and policy aspects of library automation. This title emphasizes the information/policy needed by librarians for informed decisions on automated systems and network services, to maximize the positive effects of these technologies on library organi...

Rural and small public libraries

This volume begins by defining the challenges that rural and small libraries face before shifting to an analysis of ways that these obstacles can be overcome or mitigated. The authors explore ideas for enhancing community partnerships and outreach by using rural and small public libraries as cent...

Advances in library administration and organization

A collection of essays, designed to challenge working administrators and researchers to look more closely at their operations and consider again how they develop people and the organizations in which they work.

New directions in children's and adolescents' information behavior research

This book comprises innovative research on the information behavior of various age groups. It also looks at special populations such as ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and users with disabilities. The book presents research and reflections on designing systems that help the new generation ...

Advances in serials management

Change has always been characteristic of serials, and the nature and speed of that change have altered with the development of electronic technology. This work presents essays in various topics, emphasizing the response to change and clear communication among those who work with serials as produc...

Advances in library administration and organization

Includes papers that describe the Library & Information Science community in Finland, outline the history of Library & Information Science in Finland, and reviews the scientific achievements of its Library & Information Science scholars. This title deals with some universal themes and...

Academic integrity meets artificial intelligence

Academic Integrity Meets Artificial Intelligence examines academic integrity practices in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Caribbean, assessing the current and potential impact of generative artificial intelligence tools on academic integrity and how HEIs globally have been responding.

Stories and lessons from the world’s leading opera, orchestra librarians, and music archivists, volume 1

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.

Videogames, libraries, and the feedback loop

Offering a fresh understanding of the learning potential of youth videogaming in public libraries, and delving into research-based accounts which showcase feedback mechanisms that nurture meaningful learning, Abrams and Gerber equip readers to re-envision library programming that specifically fea...

Influence of funding on advances in librarianship

Addresses the influence of research funding on advances in libraries and librarianship from two perspectives: funding agents and specific initiatives.

Bibliography and modern book production

Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufacture to the origins of typefac...

Shadow archives

Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shap...