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Photographs: Archival Care And ManagementMary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Diane Vogt-o'connor, Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, Kit Peterson

Photographs: Archival Care And Management

by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Diane Vogt-o'connor, Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, Kit Peterson

Robert Langdon: Book 1

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Interred with Their Bones

by Jennifer Lee Carrell

A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard’s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . . On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet , Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking... (more)

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Libraries, No. 122)

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Libraries, No. 122)

by Gregory S. Hunter

Library Journal and other review journals raved about the first edition of this now-standard guide. This new edition has been completely updated and expanded to include crucial new information on digital records, encoded archival description (EAD), copyright issues, post-9/11 security concerns, and international perspectives on these issues—content that makes this manual essential for archivists of all... (more)

Preservation: Issues and Planning

by Paul N. Banks, Roberta Pilette

A reference guide covering the repair, maintenance and preservation of library or archive collections, providing an analysis of how to plan for and ensure the long-term health of an institution's collection in this digital age.

American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice

American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice

Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives

Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives

by R. Neil Scott, Valerie Nye

Nexus Archives Volume 8 (Nexus Archives)

Nexus Archives Volume 8 (Nexus Archives)

by Mike Baron, Steve Rude, Paul Smith

Horatio, Judah, and the Badger have survived their reentry of the Bowl-Shaped World. As they head from outer rim to inner city, the threat that prompted this journey worsens: the Gravity Well is nearing collapse. The Web's population is evacuating in a panic, hoping to escape the artificial black hole. By the time this installment of Baron and Rude's celebrated sci-fi series comes to a close, the desperate trio... (more)

Field Guide to Emergency Response: A Vital Tool for Cultural Institutions

The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and... (more)

The Google Story

Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time

by David A. Vise

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be ... (more)

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Vintage)

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Vintage)

by Nicholson Baker

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With... (more)

How to Build a Digital Library (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)

How to Build a Digital Library (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)

by I. H. Witten

Given modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries will be among the most important and influential institutions of this century. With their versatility, accessibility, and economy, these focused collections of everything digital are fast becoming the "banks" in which the world's wealth of information is stored. How to Build a Digital Library is the only book... (more)

Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries: A Sourcebook for Academic, Public, School, and Special Collections (The Greenwood Library Management Collection)

Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries: A Sourcebook for Academic, Public, School, and Special Collections (The Greenwood Library Management Collection)

by Jeanne M. Drewes, Julie Page

No other book provides such a comprehensive approach to educating library customers and staff in the preservation of library materials. Over 35 case studies provide innovative programs and strategies for providing preservation education initiatives throughout the library. The various types of materials collected paired with the variety of patrons requires a full spectrum of approaches. Going on the assumption that... (more)

Understanding Digital Libraries, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)

Understanding Digital Libraries, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems)

by Michael Lesk

This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web. At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are already being done, or how they can be done. The first part of the book is devoted to technology and... (more)

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

by Marie C. Malaro

The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public

The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public

by National Trust

The Manual of Housekeeping is essential reading for all those involved in the care of historic houses and their collections. Building on the success of bestselling earlier editions, this greatly expanded manual covers a wider range of subjects in greater detail and includes the very latest thinking on housekeeping theory and practice. The National Trust gives detailed practical guidance on the care and... (more)

Understanding Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)James M. O'Toole, Richard J. Cox

Understanding Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)

by James M. O'Toole

The Care of Prints and Drawings (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)

The Care of Prints and Drawings (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)

by Margaret Holben Ellis

During more than a decade of work in the conservation of prints and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Margaret Holben Ellis, a specialist in the field, was aware that reliable information on many conservation problems was hard to find. It required frequent searches through the literature in pamphlets and journals; and books on paper conservation offered only semirelated data, often inappropriate.... (more)

Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II)Kathleen Roe

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