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What’S Mine Is Yours: The History Of U.S. Tool-Lending Libraries, Samantha Hamilton
What’S Mine Is Yours: The History Of U.S. Tool-Lending Libraries, Samantha Hamilton
School of Information Student Research Journal
Tool lending is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of libraries. Instead of loaning books, libraries with tool collections lend kitchen and yard tools to ambitious do-it-yourselfers. These tools can be used to tackle home projects or do seasonal cleanup without burdening borrowers with concerns about cost or storage. As these libraries gain popularity and begin to expand in the U.S., it is worth taking a look at their origins. As it is presented in the current literature, tool libraries began in 1979 with the founding of the Berkeley Tool-Lending Library (BTLL). Information unearthed from newspaper clippings, blog posts, …
Writing The Official History Of The Joint Intelligence Committee, Michael Goodman
Writing The Official History Of The Joint Intelligence Committee, Michael Goodman
Secrecy and Society
This article recounts the experience of a professional historian in being given the keys to the kingdom: access to the classified vaults of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee. This article includes some of the problems in having access, but complying with the sensitivities around official accounts, difficulties in writing a global history, or trying to make the work of a committee interesting and accessible, and of trying to determine the impact of intelligence on policy.
Secrecy, Confidentiality And "Dirty Work": The Case Of Public Relations, Sue Curry Jansen
Secrecy, Confidentiality And "Dirty Work": The Case Of Public Relations, Sue Curry Jansen
Secrecy and Society
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