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The library needs an increase in budget to care for aging collections, or the library needs an increase in funding to add new materials for our students to meet deficiencies and weaknesses. This strategy was employed by the Joyner Library at East Carolina University after an inventory and shelf-analysis project in 2005. [20]
Stained glass window from the Pride Library at the University of Western Ontario. In the post-Stonewall era, the role of libraries in providing information and services to LGBTQ individuals has been a topic of discussion among library professionals.
On May 12, 2011, Blenko Glass Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but the company still planned to continue producing and selling glass. [64] By August 2012, the company's situation improved because of lower natural gas prices and a surge in sales. [65] In December, a judge approved a reorganization plan. [66]
Many librarians feel that their work is done for some higher purpose. [71] The same can be said for preservation librarians. One instance of the library's role as sacred is to provide a sense of immortality: with the ever-changing world outside, the library will remain stable and dependable. [71] Preservation is a great help in this regard.
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Library of Congress - Getty Images Emigh-Winchell Hardware Company: 1920s Santa Claus is front and center in this display within a window display circa 1920s that's all about toy trucks, cars and ...
The American Library Association celebrated its centennial in 1976. In commemoration the association published Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America. [32] [33]The American Library Association Archives, established at the time of the centennial, created an online exhibit which includes a history of the centennial.
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...