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Indispensable in a Civilized Society, as Necessary as Food:" A Consideration of Manuel Payno's Monumental Effort to Found the Bi
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
Reflexive Curation: Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection
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
Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services
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