Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A narrator and monitor record a digital-audio book, or "talking book" for the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library. The recording studio housed within Perkins School for the Blind's Library records and produces digital audio books—local titles for its main collection that are then shared with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and custom audio ...
Bostock Library, named for board of trustees member Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries.. It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations, as well as 72,996 feet (22,249 m) of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as well as for new collectio
At the same time, libraries began to develop applications to automate the purchase, cataloging, and circulation of books and other library materials. These applications, collectively known as an integrated library system (ILS) or library management system, included an online catalog as the public interface to the system's inventory. Most ...
The Frances Perkins Branch Library, formerly known as the Greendale Branch Library, is a branch library in the public library system of Worcester, Massachusetts.It is located at 470 West Boylston Street, in an architecturally distinguished building, funded in part by Andrew Carnegie and built in 1913.
In library and information science, cataloging or cataloguing is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of bibliographic records. [1]
An appropriate book to read during Labor Day weekend would be "Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal." Of course, it can be found in the stacks of the Frances M. Perkins Branch of the ...
The book was inspired by friend Edwin Osgood Grover, who saw a picture Perkins drew of a pair of Dutch children. Grover suggested to Perkins that she design a series centered around the twins. Perkins took the advice, and the Twins series were a popular success. She published 26 books in the Twins series for the Houghton Mifflin Company. For ...
Some people still informally refer to the online catalog as a "card catalog". [2] The largest international library catalog in the world is the WorldCat union catalog managed by the non-profit library cooperative OCLC. [3] In January 2021, WorldCat had over half a billion catalog records and three billion library holdings. [4] Card catalog at Yale