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No time to waste ? preparing for the digital future

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The Economist is a great read and the 15 May issue sees a little gem: To understand the tech lords, look to their libraries. Go back to 2003 and you?ll Wanting to keep up to date with evidence and news updates relating to emerging technologies in libraries? Health Education England. No time to waste ? ll find another gem.

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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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The Sainsbury Archive chooses Preservica to create new cloud-based digital archive

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In 2003 the Sainsbury Archive was set up as an independent charitable trust and in 2005 relocated to the Museum of London Docklands in Canary Wharf. Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica.

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We the People of the United States…

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The first and signature pages of the Constitution have been on display since the entire document came here from the Library of Congress in 1952. Doing so was the idea of Assistant Archivist for Educational Programs Frank Burke after having a conversation with a visitor inquiring why all pages were not on public view.

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“WNYC Mobilizes For Harlem Emergency”

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Mayor La Guardia with educator Dr. Max Yergan and union leader Ferdinand Smith near the scene of disorder, August 2, 1943. 3] Ellison, Ralph, “All of Harlem Was Awake,” New York Post , August 2, 1943, reprinted in Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963, The Library of America, 2003, pgs.