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The Library Services and Construction Act, enacted in 1964 by the U.S. Congress, provides federal assistance to libraries in the United States for the purpose of improving or implementing library services or undertaking construction projects.
Dionne Mack (born 1973), [1] briefly known as Dionne Mack-Harvin, is an American librarian.She was the executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library from 2007 to 2011 and the first African-American woman to head a major library system in the state of the New York. [1]
The Office has been headed by a Register since 1897. The Register is appointed by, and responsible to, the Librarian of Congress, with the Register's office located in the Library's James Madison Memorial Building.
Catalogers at the United States Library of Congress chose one form—"O'Brien, Flann, 1911–1966"—as the official heading. [20] The example contains all three elements of a valid authority record: the first heading O'Brien, Flann, 1911–1966 is the form of the name that the Library of Congress chose as authoritative. In theory, every record ...
The library is paying for access to the material versus paying for ownership of the material. Gifts – In some cases libraries may allow gifts that people give to the library. It is the job of the acquisitions department to determine whether or not the gift will be kept and incorporated into the library’s collection.
Typically, dementia is associated with classic symptoms like confusion and memory loss. But new research finds that there could be a less obvious risk factor out there: your cholesterol levels ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court handed a loss to Republicans by allowing Pennsylvania voters who had sent mail-in ballots that were flagged as being potentially defective to submit a separate provisional in ...