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The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 3 (Fall 2015) Complete Issue Oct 2015

The Southeastern Librarian V 63, No. 3 (Fall 2015) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, vol. 63, no. 3.

The Embedded Library: Beyond The Course Connection, Sims Kline Apr 2015

The Embedded Library: Beyond The Course Connection, Sims Kline

The Southeastern Librarian

Several hundred articles have been published in the last few years on the role of the “embedded librarian” and the nature of “embedded librarianship” as well as books on the subject, e.g. Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know (Daughtery & Russo, 2013). “The Art and Environment of Embedded Librarianship” (Saunders & Taylor, 2014) is a good example of an article examining the librarian’s role in a specific course. “Embedded librarianship” has been established as a subject heading in Library and Information Science Abstracts.

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Written In Light: Creating Access To Photographic Collections, Suellyn Lathrop, Nancy Richey Apr 2015

Written In Light: Creating Access To Photographic Collections, Suellyn Lathrop, Nancy Richey

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The value in photographs is noted "in our culture because they are inexpensive, easy to acquire, and serve as accurate, detailed records of our environment and activities" (Schmidle, 1996). But, many challenges are presented to the archivist and librarian by the discovered or donated collection of photographs because in their abundance and variety, they can surpass all other forms of information housed in institutions. For a university archives, holdings include photographs culled from manuscript collections, from individual photographers and alumni, but the majority come from in-house production. For the librarian, the provenance of the photographs will be as varied as …

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Bottling The “Collaboration Thing”, George Needham Jan 2015