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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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CILIP celebrates new partnership with African Library and Information Association (AfLIA)

CILIP

CILIP celebrates new partnership with African Library and Information Association (AfLIA). CILIP, the UK library and information association, has announced a new partnership with the African Library and Information Association (AfLIA) as part of the successful Working Internationally programme, funded by the Arts Council England.

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Community Webs to bring web archiving to public libraries

Archive-It

The Internet Archive is accepting applications from public librarians to participate in a program of continuing education, training, and services to enable public libraries to build collections of historically-valuable, web published materials documenting their local communities.

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Nor Is This All

The Texas Record

In late September, we lost an iconic figure in the library and archives field. By the time I matriculated into The University of Texas’s School of Information in 2013, I knew that it had a powerhouse archival and records enterprise curriculum. As I looked around the crowded room, I felt a kind of solidarity as a Gracy Grandchild.

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A straightforward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and teamwork

CILIP

Contemporary managers and leaders in library and information services are working in a challenging context; dealing with multiple demands on their time, expertise and resources. This book provides a practical guide to leadership, management and teamwork in library and information services. Barbara Allan said: ?This

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How do librarians oppose knowledge destruction?

CILIP

As the senior executive of the Bodleian Libraries, Richard heads one of the oldest libraries in Europe. general carnage of institutional libraries in the middle decades of the 16th century? and he had presented a volume of his own works to the library with a poem in honour of the Bodleian. But, despite the ?very

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Diane Wolkstein and Stories From Many Lands

Archives Blogs

Storyteller, author, and folklorist Diane Wolkstein (1942-2013) produced and hosted Stories From Many Lands. The Center trained an untold number of storytellers and sent them to schools, libraries, and the weekly storytelling at the Hans Christian Andersen statue by the boat pond in Central Park near Fifth Avenue at 72nd Street.