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Connecting town and gown through the library

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Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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306-NT: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times, ca. 1900–ca. 1950

Unwritten Record

In December 1940, the Paris Bureau of the New York Times was seized by the Nazis and its Library of New Photos was transported to Berlin. The photographs that make up 306-NT were originally part of the New York Times photo morgue for the Paris Bureau of the newspaper. It operated until its closing in 1950.

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CILIP?s third Chinese accreditation at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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The department is the third CILIP accredited learning provider in mainland China following Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou and Nanjing Agricultural University. It was founded in 1960, renamed from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 2004, was designated as one of the national key institutions of higher education in 1978. Gemma Wood.

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CILIP?s first Thai accreditation at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

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CILIP is delighted to announce that two courses at Chulalongkorn (Chula) University have been awarded CILIP accreditation, recognising that they provide solid preparation for professional practice and a suitable base for anybody entering the library, information and knowledge management professions. About CILIP.

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. One of RMA’s own contributed to the selection. million years ago).

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Once Bitten, Forever Archival: Mosquitoes Abuzz in Still Pictures

Unwritten Record

Department of Agriculture were hard at work learning about their insectoid enemies. and providing education to those on the home front through colorful posters detailing the threat mosquitoes pose. Such copies can be sent to the Still Picture Branch or the Library, National Archives and Records Administration.