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William Stetson Merrill And Bricolage For Information Studies, Anita Coleman
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, …
Planning For The Future Of The Book: Some Longer-Term Financial Considerations In The Managemnent Of Book Stock, Patrick G. Scott
Planning For The Future Of The Book: Some Longer-Term Financial Considerations In The Managemnent Of Book Stock, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
Contrasts library costs for short-term access to digital collections for a delimited group of library users with the traditional free access and loan of now-ageing and irreplaceable print collections, suggests that future access to major research collections of printed material may well be fee-based, and argues that libraries need to plan for the future of their book stock with the same imagination and financial realism that has been given to digital resources. Presented in Plenary Session 1: the Future of the Book, at the Charleston Conference on Issues in Book & Serial Acquisition, Nov. 6, 2003, and subsequently published in …
Mission College, Thailand, Assignment: October 26 - November 8, 2000, Keith Clouten
Mission College, Thailand, Assignment: October 26 - November 8, 2000, Keith Clouten
Faculty Publications
This report tells the story of a library consultation visit to Mission College, a new Adventist post-secondary school situated in the hill country northeast of Bankok, Thailand.
Experiences With Faculty Status In Academic Libraries, Jo Bell Whitlatch, Judy Reynolds
Experiences With Faculty Status In Academic Libraries, Jo Bell Whitlatch, Judy Reynolds
Faculty Publications
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