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  1. Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
  2. Alternative Materials in Libraries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Handbook with extensive bibliographies. What, where, how and why to buy Alternative and small press publications for libraries - also useful for individuals and bookstore.
  3. Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley and then used the account to check out 2,361 books over nine months in 2016, rescuing the books from automated purges of low-popularity titles.
  4. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  5. Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
    Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country

    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2014
    A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
  6. Challenged Books List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
  7. Charles Darwin's Beagle library
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2014
    The voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836) was one of the most important scientific expeditions in history. On board was the young naturalist Charles Darwin. His investigations would change science and the world forever. As a research vessel HMS Beagle may not have had the internet, but she did have an impressive state-of-the-art library of about 400 volumes. The library was housed in book cases in the poop cabin at the stern of the ship, which was also Darwin's cabin. Thus, Darwin lived and worked in the Beagle library for five years. The collection of books that kept Darwin company has now been made publicly avaiable at the Darwin Online Beagle Library project.
  8. The City in History
    Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
  9. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  10. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  12. Culture Inc.
    The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
  13. Double Fold
    Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
  14. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
    Resource Type: Book
  15. Encyclopedia of Library History
    Resource Type: Book
  16. Finding Answers
    The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
  17. For bibliomaniacs, there is no cure
    Literary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
  18. For the love of books: Mobile libraries around the world
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look at the people behind mobile libraries serving communities from Nigeria to the Netherlands.
  19. South Africa: Former Pharmacist Runs Children's Library Out of Shipping Container
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Reporting on the work of Muzi Nkosi, a South African former pharmacist who runs a library for children.
  20. France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
  21. History of the Book in Canada
    Volume Two: 1840 - 1918

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    The second of three volumes dealing with the history of publishing in Canada.
  22. Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience.
  23. Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Alex Johnson looks at the imaginative forms the modern library takes.
  24. An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
    A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
  25. Intelligent Technologies in Library and Information Service Applications
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    A technical study, funded by the Special Libraries Association, surveying the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to library information service environments.
  26. Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  27. Libraries in the Ancient World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  28. The Library
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1881
  29. Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Website
    Information about the collections and services of Library and Archives Canada, and direct access to a wide range of online resources.
  30. The Library at Night
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
  31. Library of Congress Professional Guild - AFSCME Local 2910 website
    Resource Type: Website
    Features a number of valuable articles on debates around the future of cataloguing.
  32. Library of Congress World Wide Web site
    Resource Type: Website
    A gateway to massive amounts of information. Main site of the U.S. Library of Congress.
  33. A library without books? OSU and other universities purging dusty volumes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favour of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.
  34. Literary Market Place
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    The standard directory of publishing services. "An indispensable tool".
  35. The Loneliest Library in the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis.
  36. Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Mosab Abu Toha, works to expand his collection of English books to create a public library that will enrich the lives and society within Gaza during the Israeli occupation.
  37. MP & Mayor Launch The New Talking Book Library
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The new Talking Book Library has been launched, providing hundreds of audio books for free! Read more about it, or visit the Talking Book Library online at www.talkingbooklibrary.org
  38. "On the Record" but Off the Track
    A Review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
  39. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
  40. The Oxford Guide to Library Research
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    An overview of little-known but powerful strategies used by librarians and information specialists, with clear explanations of fundamental methods searching.
  41. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  42. Red Menace #2
    Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  43. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  44. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
  45. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  46. Sources Select Links & Resources: Libraries & Other Reference Sites
    Resource Type: Website
  47. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
  48. Talking Book Library Grand Opening
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    All Media invited to attend the Grand Opening of the Talking Book Library THIS SATURDAY in Stouffville, ON. The Talking Book Library provides free audio books to those with print disabilities across Canada.
  49. Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
  50. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  51. The University of Toronto
    A History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  52. The Web Library
    Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  53. What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
    And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
    without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
    depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
    down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
    mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
    ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
  54. What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
    administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings–especially its book collections.
  55. Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.
  56. World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts
  57. You Can't Read This
    Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
  58. Zoia Horn, librarian jailed for not testifying against protesters
    Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.

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