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Title: Diversity Essay Student Competition, Diversity Student Essay
Description: Flyer advertising the 2014 Diversity Essay Student Competition.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:5082

Title: Indispensable in a Civilized Society, as Necessary as Food:" A Consideration of Manuel Payno's Monumental Effort to Found the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico, Manuel Payno's Monumental Effort to Found the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico
Description: This article considers the role of Manuel Payno in establishing his country's national library.
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:227

Title: Reflexive Curation: Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Reflexive Curation
Description: The systems we use to record, communicate, and safeguard knowledge and experience, including our increasingly distributed and coordinated systems of curation, themselves increase complexity and risk, which will not be reduced, overall, by new or additional knowledge or technology. We must be careful not to overestimate what we think we know about the functioning of these complex systems, or to extrapolate too confidently from current trends.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5074

Title: Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries
Description: Scholarly communication, in addition to referring to the disciplinary practices that structure the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, has become shorthand for two meanings: on the one hand, it refers to an analytic "author/reader" framework that seeks critical understanding of the entire life cycle of scholarly knowledge and the connected roles of researchers, teachers, students, funders, libraries, publishers, and other kinds of agencies in the creation, dissemination, critique, reuse, and preservation of knowledge.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5075

Title: Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services
Description: This paper describes the process of creating, testing, and implementing LibGuides as a new way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3247

Title: The Value of Information : Normativity, Epistemology, and LIS in Luciano Floridi
Description: This paper is a critical reconstruction of Luciano Floridi's view of librarianship as "stewardship of a semantic environment" a view that is at odds with the dominant tradition in which library and information science (LIS) is understood as social epistemology
PID: grinnell:6527