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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Preservation Microfilming
Author: Association of Research LibrariesPublisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838906538
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This guide presents information on planning and managing microfilming projects, incorporating co-operative programmes, service bureaux and the impact of automation for library staff with deteriorating collections.
The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1620459140
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library. "Indispensable for those interested in the African American experience. We have no better source for quick and reliable information." --Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "As much about African American culture as one could possibly gain from one volume is now available in this highly readable, easily accessible, genuinely informative desk reference." --Johnetta B. Cole, PhD, President Emerita, Spelman College; Presidential Distinguished Professor, Emory University In over 5,000 fascinating information capsules, this landmark reference captures the most vital people, places, organizations, movements, and creative works of a people, and provides a practical resource for everyday living. In its nineteen chapters, you’ll find: * Timelines of African American History * Political and Civil Rights Leaders * African Contributions to the Making of the Americas * Holidays and Celebrations * Museums and Historical Sites * Religion and Spirituality * Health Tips and Recipes * Business Contacts and Professional Associations * Demographics and Population * Major Writers, Artists, and Musicians * Musical Forms * Sports * and more
Guide to the Study of United States Imprints
Author: George Thomas TansellePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674367616
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ...
Author: American Library Association. MeetingPublisher:
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Deaccessioning and Its Discontents
Author: Martin GammonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262037580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ...
Author: American Library Association. General MeetingPublisher:
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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