Shaw Library which sits on the edge of the Shaw neighborhood is one of the oldest libraries in D.C. The goals of the new neighborhood Library was to provide a new kind of library service, one with a strong emphasis on the updated media of communications and information. The new Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library: A Landmark of Social Change." During its first year of operation, the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw branch offered a variety of community activities, including workshops in photography,…
The library of congress is an agency that serves as the research library for congress. It is meant to provide information to the legislative process. The library of congress was established on April 24, 1800. The purpose of the Library of congress is to serve congress and give them information. However the Library of Congress also serves other federal agencies as well as people such as scholars by providing them with information. The head of the Library of Congress or the acting Librarian of…
Library has always been a magical place to me since I was five years old, and it played a compelling role in my childhood development. How librarians know where to find what information from the temple of mystery was amazing to me at that time, and I get to understand comprehensively of library’s vital value to people and community when I studied in universities and visited libraries around the world, especially after few years’ involvement in library as a volunteer. A library is a place where…
Public libraries are trying to keep up in a world where technological changes are rapid and constant. In order to stay relevant, public libraries must understand and embrace change and new technologies. Public library spaces will continue to be reinvented in order to better meet the needs of users. But where the most amount of change is expected is in digital content. As the library changes, the catalog must change. These changes need to consider not just current needs but the future needs of…
the suggestions for the Smiths Falls Public Library. The community is a small area surrounded nature and a lovely view of its bodies of water, this includes a waterfall. Smith falls community location is near Queen Street and Brockville Street. With the well-known Rideau River flowing through the town. The smith falls public library is on 81 Beckwith St. N. Smith Falls. Looking at their website there doesn’t appear to have other branches of their library but they do serve the public. Their…
Library Technicians assist the librarian(s) with library media, sorting, stacking books and registering new patrons. They usually help patrons with the library resources as well as the uses of them. They also fix books that are in bad conditions only if they’re fixable. The working conditions involve a lot of walking. They also would have to handle objects that are up to ten pounds as well as one’s that go up twenty. The skills required for this career are reading comprehension, active…
1- Library Comparison Summary In a nutshell libraries exist to connect people with information. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate libraries in terms of who they serve, collections that they hold and what services are provided to their patrons. I will be discussing the similarities and differences of the following five libraries in these aspects. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is a Government library and it combines the holdings, services and staff of both the former National Library of…
I would like to disagree why books are constantly being banned or censored but no one can person really have a good understanding why they are banned. People say that books influence our thinking a lot, well maybe too a little too much. Somebody assassinated John Lennon for being a phony which was a word used by the main character a lot in the Catcher in the Rye. When the police asked why well the assassins showed the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Maybe this is why this book was…
staffing the Suffolk County House of Corrections library. He tells the reader about positive and negative effects of inmates spending time in the library, the debate on a library being accessible, and his personal experiences with the inmates. Steinberg finishes the article saying, "...and find ways to cultivate it more deliberately, to direct it over the prison walls and back into the lives of our neighborhoods." This quote shows just how often libraries are overlooked. In this essay I will be…
of University Experience Portfolio Exercise Library Assignment The Library is key to your academic success at Missouri Western State University. While in college, you will be asked to find articles and books for assignments in many of your classes. This exercise is designed to familiarize you with the process of locating a book in the MWSU library using TOWERS, the library’s catalog. You will also learn to locate scholarly articles in a library database/search engine. Searching for an…