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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/18/2020
The Black Women Who Launched the Original Anti-Racist Reading List
by Ashley Dennis
Black women librarians have been important leaders in promoting books and publishing standards that encourage readers to recognize human dignity and reject racist stereotypes in children's literature.
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SOURCE: TIME
6/15/2020
The Risky Journey That Saved One of China’s Greatest Literary Treasures
by Janie Chang
The story of the Siku Quanshu Wenlan Ge is inseparable from the story of people who risked all to protect a cultural legacy, from the librarian who sold off his house to the students who would not abandon the heavy boxes that slowed their travel.
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SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
4/2/2020
The Internet Archive Chooses Readers
by Karin Wulf
To elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace.
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8/4/2019
PubMed Central Offers a Historical Treasure Trove
by Jeffrey S. Reznick, Christy Henshaw, Laura Randall, Rosalyn Leiderman, and Kathryn Funk
The digitization of medical journals now allows access to valuable historical research opportunities.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
11-23-16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites academe to collaborate on future of libraries
“I don’t think we need to save libraries, but I do think we might need libraries to save us.” — Chris Bourg, director of libraries at MIT
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SOURCE: BBC News
12-18-13
Naples' Girolamini: The looting of a 16th Century library
The Biblioteca Girolamini's invaluable fifteenth and sixteenth century book collections have been plundered.
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SOURCE: Religion News Service
12-4-13
Two world-class libraries launch online archive of ancient Scriptures
The Vatican Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library are teaming up.
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SOURCE: Press release
6-28-13
National Library of Medicine launches new biomedical history blog
The NLM's History of Medicine Division has launched a new blog, Circulating Now, to encourage greater exploration and discovery of one of the world's largest and most treasured history of medicine collections. Encompassing millions of items that span ten centuries, these collections include items in just about every form one can imagine—from books, journals, and photographs, to lantern slides, motion picture films, film strips, video tapes, audio recordings, pamphlets, ephemera, portraits, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. The NLM's historical collections also include items from the present day: born-digital materials and rich data sets—like the millions of records in its IndexCat database—that are ripe for exploration through traditional research methods and new ones that are emerging in the current climate of "big data" and the digital humanities.