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Electronic Resources, Robert L. Bothmann Oct 2010

Electronic Resources, Robert L. Bothmann

Library Services Publications

Emphasis will be on coding of electronic monographs and on the provider-neutral versus single-record approach.


The Open Worldcat Is Out Of The Bag, Mary Wise Jul 2006

The Open Worldcat Is Out Of The Bag, Mary Wise

Library Scholarship

This article discusses the features of Open Worldcat, a public interface to OCLC's WorldCat online library catalog.


William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman Jan 2006

William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

Purpose – This paper examines William Stetson Merrill, the compiler of A Code for Classifiers and a Newberry Library employee (1889‐1930) in an attempt to glean lessons for modern information studies from an early librarian's career. Design/methodology/approach – Merrill's career at the Newberry Library and three editions of the code are briefly examined using historical, bibliographic, and conceptual methods. Primary and secondary sources in archives and libraries are summarized to provide insight into Merrill's attempts to develop or modify tools to solve the knowledge organization problems he faced. The concept of bricolage, developed by Levi‐Strauss to explain modalities of thinking, …


The Lesbian And Gay Past: An Interpretive Battleground, Polly Thistlethwaite Jan 1995

The Lesbian And Gay Past: An Interpretive Battleground, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

The lesbian and gay past is an interpretive battleground that mainstream archives have refused to enter, assuming few risks in collecting, naming, or identifying archival collections. At the same time, libraries offer up worlds to those who work to unearth the secrets there.

The New York Public Library's 1994 "Becoming Visible" exhibit trumpeted The Arrival of lesbian and gay history to New York's cultural mainstream. The NYPL exhibit denies the library's role in secreting lesbian and gay history, and diminished the contributions of community-based archives to the exhibit.


"Linus Is Resting": The Joys And Perils Of A Shared Automation Project At Henderson State And Ouachita Baptist Universities, S. Ray Granade Mar 1990

"Linus Is Resting": The Joys And Perils Of A Shared Automation Project At Henderson State And Ouachita Baptist Universities, S. Ray Granade

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Automating a library is challenging, frustrating and rewarding. It requires detailed, often tedious planning, and enormous amounts of patience. Software glitches, hardware failures, and miscommunication between automation vendors and library staff are common complaints found in the library literature. These problems loom large when any library automates. When two libraries undertake such a project together, problems proliferate. The automation project of Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) and Henderson State University (HSU) Libraries illustrates problems inherent in any automation, some unique to joint endeavors, and others representative of cooperation between a public and a private institution. Above all, it illustrates how a …