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Review Of The Website The Nuremberg Trials Project, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Website The Nuremberg Trials Project, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the website The Nuremberg trials project.
Al Sears' Saxophone At York Library, John A. Drobnicki
Al Sears' Saxophone At York Library, John A. Drobnicki
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Among the memorabilia in the York College Library's Music History Archive is a saxophone that was owned by the renowned Jazz musician Al Sears.
The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown
The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown
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This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP) at the City University of New York Graduate Center to preserve and present via the Internet digital resources related to the epochal events of …
Review Of The Book Fifty Key Thinkers On The Holocaust And Genocide, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Fifty Key Thinkers On The Holocaust And Genocide, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book Fifty key thinkers on the Holocaust and genocide.
Shamanic Knowledge: The Challenge To Information Science, Jay H. Bernstein
Shamanic Knowledge: The Challenge To Information Science, Jay H. Bernstein
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Shamanism, a form of healing involving soul travel and trance found in many traditional societies the world over, has been studied by anthropologists and scholars of religious studies. Shamanic traditions are characterized by specialized, restricted, and esoteric knowledge domains that are encoded and communicated through condensed and mystified symbols and reproduced in ceremonies. Shamanic knowledge is acquired through direct experience of the numinous, usually in the process of overcoming personal affliction. Information science so far has been silent on shamanic knowledge. This is understandable given the latter discipline's focus on formal documentary information systems and advanced information technologies. But in …
Media Services In North American Academic Libraries, Michael J. Miller
Media Services In North American Academic Libraries, Michael J. Miller
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Ongoing evolution of the Benjamin S. Rosenthal (BRL), Multimedia Commons was initially informed by a report from an internal task force and also by a four-year-long study of North American academic library media services units. A travel grant allowed for visits to the media service units of Barnard College, College of Staten Island - City University of New York, Columbia University, Georgetown University, New York University, University of Maryland - College Park, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of Texas – Austin. Visits have subsequently been made to the University of Washington – …
Online Instruction For Art History Research, Ching-Jung Chen, Amrita Dhawan
Online Instruction For Art History Research, Ching-Jung Chen, Amrita Dhawan
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At the City College of New York (CCNY), the Art and Architecture Visual Resources Librarian (VR Librarian) teamed up with the Information Literacy Librarian to design an online tutorial for conducting library research in Art History. The tutorial is created using Google Sites and is linked to the College’s Blackboard site for ease of access by students.
1967 Convocation Charter, John A. Drobnicki
1967 Convocation Charter, John A. Drobnicki
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Faculty, administrators, and students signed a charter at the opening convocation of York College in 1967.
The Taliban: A Study Of Book Collections On The Taliban In Academic, Public And West Point Libraries., Seamus O'Scanlain
The Taliban: A Study Of Book Collections On The Taliban In Academic, Public And West Point Libraries., Seamus O'Scanlain
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The purpose of this study was to document and compare the extent of book collections on the topic of the Taliban in selected academic libraries in New York and New Jersey, the New York Public Library and the military academy at West Point.
Isaac Edward Kiev: Early Leader In American Judaica Librarianship, Amy F. Stempler
Isaac Edward Kiev: Early Leader In American Judaica Librarianship, Amy F. Stempler
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Isaac Edward Kiev (1905–1975), former Chief Librarian of New York’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, spent a lifetime facilitating Jewish research. This article, based on the author’s Master’s thesis on Kiev, focuses on his contributions to the founding of Jewish book and library organizations during the American post-war era, including the Association of Jewish Libraries, Jewish Book Council of America, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., and numerous Jewish book foundations in the United States and Israel. In addition to providing insight into the creation of these associations, the article illustrates the parallel development of the fields of Judaica librarianship and …