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Connecting town and gown through the library

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Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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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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Uncovering Local Sharecropping through a General Store: The Van Brunt Business Records

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Sharecropping was an agricultural labor system that replaced slavery following the end of the Civil War. The country store in Iamonia is one example of how credit networks drove sharecropping. At the beginning of the agricultural year, sharecroppers bought their seeds and supplies on credit. ” Click to view slideshow.

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Updated SCA Page in Florida History Research Guide

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One of our major projects this summer in light of Covid-19 and the need for expanded online services has been to update our presence on FSU Library research guides to better connect patrons with our materials remotely. Research guides can be accessed through the tile, “Research Guides,” on the library’s main page.

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Eggplant Activism: Philadelphia Community Gardens and COVID-19

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McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Community gardens are an important part of our Commonwealth’s food and agricultural system,” Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. See Table 1 listing some common examples of the “art of the possible.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

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For example, at the time was writing by book on IoT Security, When Gadgets Betray Us, Paul was off creating The Security Ledger, a news site dedicated to IoT security, a site where he remains Editor in Chief today, runs a Boston-area security of things meetup, and maintains his own great infosec podcast called the Security Ledger podcast.