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Review Of The Book Developing Readers’ Advisory Services: Concepts And Commitments, John A. Drobnicki Jul 1994

Review Of The Book Developing Readers’ Advisory Services: Concepts And Commitments, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Developing Readers’ Advisory Services: Concepts and Commitments.


Review Of The Book Irish Family Histories, John A. Drobnicki Apr 1994

Review Of The Book Irish Family Histories, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Irish Family Histories.


Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki, Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, Johanna V. Thomas Mar 1994

Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki, Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, Johanna V. Thomas

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Holocaust-denial is a body of work that seeks to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen. Although not all of the deniers, who prefer to call themselves "revisionists" in an attempt to gain scholarly legitimacy, make the same claims, they all share at least one point: that there was no systematic attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jewry. This bibliography includes both works about Holocaust denial and works of Holocaust denial.


Gays And Lesbians In Library History, Polly Thistlethwaite Jan 1994

Gays And Lesbians In Library History, Polly Thistlethwaite

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Summarizes gay and lesbian activism in librarianship and the role of libraries in supporting gay and lesbian movements.


Untruth In The Classroom, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1994

Untruth In The Classroom, John A. Drobnicki

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Although historical revision is a valid practice, Holocaust revisionism is based on deliberate fabrications of the historical record and does not reinterpret a past event. The author believes that Holocaust revisionist materials should not be ignored by teachers, but should be used in classrooms as primary source material on anti-Semitism and intolerance.


Closing The Corporate Library: Some Personal Reflections, Philip Barnett Oct 1992

Closing The Corporate Library: Some Personal Reflections, Philip Barnett

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Review Of The Book Russia’S Retreat From Poland, 1920: From Permanent-Revolution To Peaceful Coexistence, John A. Drobnicki Jun 1992

Review Of The Book Russia’S Retreat From Poland, 1920: From Permanent-Revolution To Peaceful Coexistence, John A. Drobnicki

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Book review of Russia’s retreat from Poland, 1920: From permanent-revolution to peaceful coexistence.


The Confidentiality Of Library Users’ Records, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1992

The Confidentiality Of Library Users’ Records, John A. Drobnicki

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Many activities that take place in the library, including circulation and inter!ibrary loan and reserve requests, result in the creation of records linking clients to specific kinds of information. Several groups, including law enforcement officials, have attempted on various occasions to gain access to these records. This research paper provides a broad overview of the legal and ethical issues regarding the confidentiality of library user's records, including federal, state, and court protection for the confidentiality of library records, the status of library records that are part of a public institution, and a minor's right to privacy. The paper also discusses …


Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang Jan 1992

Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

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"The lesbian and gay press has shaped and reflected the rise of gay and lesbian liberation," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian and Gay' section of Katzes' 1992 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and 1995) far exceeded any mainstream library collection known to either of the authors who were nevertheless hopeful that libraries would expand …


Disabled Does Not Mean "Not Able": A List Of Books On People Who Triumphed Over Their Illnesses And Disabilities, John A. Drobnicki Oct 1991

Disabled Does Not Mean "Not Able": A List Of Books On People Who Triumphed Over Their Illnesses And Disabilities, John A. Drobnicki

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This annotated booklist offers guidance on locating biographical information about people who overcame, adapted to, or triumphed over illnesses and/or disabilities.


How To Find Biographical Information, John A. Drobnicki Sep 1991

How To Find Biographical Information, John A. Drobnicki

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Finding biographical information can sometimes be a challenge, especially if there is no full-length book about the person. This pathfinder offers guidance on locating information in collective biographies, periodicals, and local history sources.


Aids Information In Periodical Indexes: A Problem Of Exclusion, Polly Thistlethwaite Jul 1991

Aids Information In Periodical Indexes: A Problem Of Exclusion, Polly Thistlethwaite

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The lack of attention afforded the gay, lesbian, and alternative press in mainstream periodical indexes has a serious, detrimental impact on the nature of AIDS information available to students of the epidemic. Indexers and database search services must end their policy of excluding the gay/lesbian and other community-based periodicals in order to provide adequate coverage of AIDS information.


The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Polly Thistlethwaite Jan 1991

The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Polly Thistlethwaite

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An introduction to the history and radical practice of New York City's Lesbian Herstory Archives with discussion of the period-specific situation of the archive housed in, but outgrowing, private quarters.


Libraries Of New York: The Bronx Institute Archives Of Lehman College Library, Janet Butler Munch Jan 1990

Libraries Of New York: The Bronx Institute Archives Of Lehman College Library, Janet Butler Munch

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The Bronx Institute Archives is a unique collection of primary and secondary sources assembled to document the history and development of the Bronx.


Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite Jan 1990

Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite

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Lesbian and gay people lay special claim to the power of the printed word. It is through the printed word, consumed privately and anonymously, that we often first call ourselves queer. Coming out stories are thick with accounts of self-discovery through reading and exploration in libraries.


To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite Sep 1989

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

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A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.


Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang Jan 1989

Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

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"The time is past when librarians can assume no patron is lesbian or gay, or that there is no interest in gay research," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian and Gay' section of Katzes' 1989 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and 1995) far exceeded any mainstream library collection known to either of the authors who …


College Library Friends Groups In New York, New Jersey, And Connecticut, Janet Munch Sep 1988

College Library Friends Groups In New York, New Jersey, And Connecticut, Janet Munch

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Friends of the Library groups are largely undocumented in the professional literature at non doctoral-granting colleges and universities. Through a survey of Friends activities at colleges and universities in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, this study fills a gap in knowledge about these groups.


Indexing For The Online Catalog, Arthur B. Chitty Dec 1987

Indexing For The Online Catalog, Arthur B. Chitty

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The proliferation of online public access catalogs (OPACs) requires some systematic rationale for the comparative evaluation of their designs. Considered as an indexing application, the OPAC can be analyzed by three features: the varieties of bibliographic data processed, the kinds of indexes constructed, and the ways in which the indexes are searched. No one configuration applies to every library research project with equal efficacy or likelihood of satisfying queries. However, the rationale proposed can compare and evaluate alternative library computer catalogs in terms of the library's understanding of the relationship between the library's collections and their use.


Burnout: A Survey Of Library Directors' Views, Izabella Taler Jan 1984

Burnout: A Survey Of Library Directors' Views, Izabella Taler

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Reports on a survey survey designed to find out whether or not library directors are able to recognize the existence of burnout among the library personnel