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Connecting town and gown through the library

CILIP

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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Spotlight: How Secrets Sprawl Undermines Software Supply Chain Security

The Security Ledger

Related Stories Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? It speaks to a hidden value of open source code: with an unbounded population of developers given access to source code, security and quality issues will quickly bubble up and be discovered, improving security rather than undermining it. .

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. One of RMA’s own contributed to the selection. million years ago).

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Surveying Community Webs Members’ Digital Preservation Needs

Archive-It

Out of the 51, respondents the following organization types were represented: public libraries (34), college and university libraries or archives (4), archival repositories (5), museums (5), research institutes (1), and state/local government offices (1).

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

Archives Blogs

Sharecropping was an agricultural labor system that replaced slavery following the end of the Civil War. At the beginning of the agricultural year, sharecroppers bought their seeds and supplies on credit. While they could pay cash if they had it, sharecroppers paid their store balance down with agricultural goods as well.

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Updated SCA Page in Florida History Research Guide

Archives Blogs

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.