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Library and Information Science

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

Series

1998

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman Jun 1998

Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

A paper that dually examines the painstaking work done by Boston Historian Nathaniel Shurtleff in 1853, to preserve the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and the methods of record keeping within the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and after.


Resources File On Records Of Boston Social Welfare Agencies, Elizabeth R. Mock Jun 1998

Resources File On Records Of Boston Social Welfare Agencies, Elizabeth R. Mock

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

One of the Healey Library's areas of collection focus is 19th century private social welfare and charitable agencies of the Boston area. This paper reports on the creation of an electronic resource file with entries on every organization, institution, and society that fits that category.


Academic Libraries And Librarianship In Transition: Where Is Information Technology Taking Us?, Daniel A. Ortiz Jan 1998

Academic Libraries And Librarianship In Transition: Where Is Information Technology Taking Us?, Daniel A. Ortiz

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

Academic libraries and librarians are now struggling to find a place amidst tradition and change while dealing with increasing operational costs, unstable students enrollment, library customers' growing and changing needs, as well as with changes in information access, storage, and retrieval. All of these seem to be effecting change in the role of academic libraries and librarians' responsibilities. New information technology is another leading force driving libraries and librarians into what seems to be a hard-to-figure-out role in the new millennium. These changes are taking place at the same time that universities in the United States are trying to bolster …