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From Vision To Legacy: Walter Gellhorn And The Establishment Of The Toshiba Library For Japanese Legal Research, Yukino Nakashima

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This paper chronicles events surrounding the creation of the largest academic Japanese law library in the United States, while focusing on two extraordinary law faculty members at Columbia Law School and their successful fundraising efforts from the initial concept of building a Japanese law library through the establishment of permanent funding. It recounts others who tirelessly supported carrying through this arduous plan. It is about insightful visions, perseverance, and lasting personal relationships, as well as building a foreign law collection in the United States. It examines lessons to be learned.

The Pack Horse Library Initiative And Kentucky's Librarians In The Great Depression: An Academic Essay, Jessica Omer (University Of Missouri)

SLIS Connecting

The history of libraries is a complex story of ups and downs. There have been times in American history when libraries almost ceased to exist (Boyd, 2009). One of those moments was during the American Great Depression of the 1930s. During this time, American institutions failed, jobs disappeared, homes were lost, and American libraries began to disappear. This paper aims to discover the Pack Horse Library Project's role in Kentucky history and its legacy. This paper answers two questions—How did The Pack Horse Library Project save libraries in Kentucky? And how did women save library services in eastern Kentucky?—by exploring …

The Threat To Academic & Intellectual Freedom, Christopher M. Jimenez, Melissa Del Castillo, Stephen Thomson Moore, Lowell Bryan Cooper, Jacqueline Radebaugh, George Pearson

Works of the FIU Libraries

The Academic and Intellectual Freedom Ad Hoc Committee presented a First Thursday discussion on May 4 about academic and intellectual freedom. Starting with a brief definition of these terms, they traced the history of Academic Freedom and how current events affect us at FIU. The committee posed several real-life scenarios threatening Academic/Intellectual Freedom in libraries. All library staff were invited to attend this lively discussion.

Mapping Renewal: How An Unexpected Interdisciplinary Collaboration Transformed A Digital Humanities Project, Elise Tanner, Geoffrey Joseph

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Funded by a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture’s “Mapping Renewal” pilot project focused on creating access to and providing spatial context to archival materials related to racial segregation and urban renewal in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1954-1989. An unplanned interdisciplinary collaboration with the UA Little Rock Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) has proven to be an invaluable partnership. One team member from each department will demonstrate the Mapping Renewal website and discuss how the collaborative process has changed and shaped …

Attacks On The American Press: A Documentary And Reference Guide, Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

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Non-Thesis Writing Project His 595, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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Advanced Topics In European History His 501, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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Introduction To Historical Study His 500, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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Advanced Topics In American History His 541, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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Advanced Topics In Asian Or Latin American History His 581, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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The Uri Campus: A Walk Through Time, Amanda Izenstark, Karen Morse

Library Impact Statements

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Bias: Interrogating The Archive Lti 350g, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Votes For Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement And The Nineteenth Amendment, Robert Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

A review of the book "Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: A Reference Guide," by Marion W. Roydhouse, part of the Guides to Historic Events in America series, is presented.

Digital Collections In The University Classroom: Inspiring Your Faculty With Regional Content, Kelley F. Rowan, Christopher Davis

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation explores a model collaboration between the Digital Collections Center of the library and the History Department that has been highly successful in introducing students to researching with digital collections. We consider the use of history department undergraduate and graduate interns in the library and discuss the benefits and challenges to both parties. Dr. Christopher Davis shares the research project that was embedded in his course syllabus, highlighting various relevant digital collections and the results of student research. He also discusses what aspect of the collections he found intriguing and inspired him to create a research project and his …

Judaiism, Christianity And Islam In Medieval Culture His 378, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro

Works of the FIU Libraries

This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.

Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …

History Of The Cold War His 353, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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Protest And Resistance In America Hpr 314, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

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History Internship His 577, Amanda Izenstark

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History Internship His 477, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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A Century Of Conflict...The Official Record, Texas State Albert B. Alkek Library

History

For the past 100 years, the United States has been involved in conflicts across the globe. This exhibit explores this history through United States federal government documents.

Law Library: 1859-2017, Barbara H. Garavaglia

Book Chapters

The Law Library was established in 1859 as part of the Law Department and continues to be "maintained and administered as a part of the instruction and research operation of the Law School." The library has been considered the "apparatus" of the Law Department and "the lawyer's laboratory." Indeed, this underlying view led the library to build a comprehensive collection that would provide "the means necessary for original investigation" and "permit scholars to do research work in any field of law, regardless of country or period." The collection development policy--to collect primary sources of law: statutes, civil law codes, court …

Strategic Planning And Collaborative Effort To Preserve The University’S History, Xiaohua (Cindy) Li

Librarian Publications

Since established in 1963, Sacred Heart University has accumulated tens of thousands of photographs that have recorded the significant moments or important occasions in the university’s history. Over the years, more and more photos have been taken but the effort to preserve the valuable information has not been up to the pace of the photo accumulation. Realizing some photos started to deteriorate due to the physical space in which these images were stored and the university was about to lose the visual data, the Office of University Advancement (OUA) began to seek a long-term solution that would help them manage …

Russia...Through The Years, Minnesota State University, Mankato

History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Iron Ladies: International Women's Day, Humboldt State University

Women

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Humboldt State University, California.

Inaugurations Past And Present ... From George Washington To Barack Obama, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Elections/Voting

Photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Civil War 150th Anniversary, Minnesota State University, Mankato

History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

150th Anniversary Of The Civil War, 1861, Oklahoma State University

History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University.

Moments In Time, Florida State University

History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Florida State University.