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Thoughts on the connection between collection development and research/information need
A friend just posted this really interesting Atlantic article on Facebook about “redlining” and a project called T-RACES, or Testbed for for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces that brought me back to my first year as a govt documents librarian in 2002. “The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood.” Alexis C. Madrigal. […]
QOTD: Barbara Fister
Quote of the day: Barbara Fister: In an age of austerity, survival is the name of the game, but it’s a rigged game and a distraction from what we’re here for. It’s how we ended up with a precarious faculty, a rented library, and indentured students. We need to focus further out, more broadly on […]
The value in being a depository library
July 17, 2014 / 3 Comments on The value in being a depository library
[UPDATE 6:45PM 7/17/2014: I’ve had 2 other examples of document loss or potential loss emailed to me this afternoon. I’ve added ERIC and USGS in the comments. Readers are encouraged to leave other examples in the comments. Thanks! JRJ] In the govt information library community, the question of the value of being — or remaining […]
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