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Rebecca B. Rankin: Early Advocate for Public Access to Government Information

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Rankin was the Director of the Municipal Reference Library for the City of New York. Her work included the promotion of resources and services of the library to its clients. Seaver is the author of A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York, 1920-1952, published in 2003.

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Following Maps from Manuscript to Print in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Irrigation Division

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government. Intersections of Manuscript and Print” webpage from the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education from the University of Southern Maine. Published April 2001. “Map Separates” report from the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS Fact Sheet 042-01.

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Championing evidenced-based librarianship and the North of England

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We also travel the length and breadth of the UK meeting members, acting as a conduit between all of you working in library and information services and CILIP?s So, a bit about my early career: unlike Ayub, I was never a Saturday assistant in a public library. I started in 1978 as a library assistant at the University of Birmingham?s

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Carl Louis Gregory, Founder of Film Preservation at NARA

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Before the National Archives held more than half a million reels of film, nearly 200,000 videos, and over 300,000 sound recordings originating from dozens of government agencies (and decades before the existence of the National Archives) Carl Louis Gregory was a motion picture cameraman dedicated to the evolution of the field.

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We Can Do It!: World War II Posters at the Still Picture Branch

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The Still Picture Branch at the National Archives and Records Administration houses a multitude of posters used during World War II by the United States Government. The subject matter includes promotions for military recruitment, education, safety and more. Government to produce and disseminate posters during World War II.