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communication. This is what I’ve been searching for! Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian at Barnard College Library, is quoted by Marilyn Johnson in This…

Location of the Facility The Albin O. Kuhn Library (AOK) and Gallery can be found on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). UMBC, an honors college, is located at 1000 Hilltop Circle in Baltimore County, mostly in the community of Catonsville. Spanning across over 500 acres of land, UMBC is three miles outside the Baltimore City limits and is surrounded by BWI Airport, Amtrak train station, bus lines, business, restaurants and other conveniences. The library is…

Many of our front-line staff, from clerks to librarians, would benefit from having someone they can rely on for inquiries that are more than supervisory responses. From my personal experience, I began at a public library as a volunteer five years ago and worked my way up, but I made sacrifices along…

III. Discussion Robotic technology, in general, brings both opportunities and challenges. Some people are optimistic about them while others are skeptic – some are even fearful of how they will affect humanity’s future. Broadly speaking, robots aid in industries to make jobs faster and easier. Nowadays, one can find robots working in factories to aid in the manufacturing process like in car plants or in warehouses like that of Amazon’s Kiva robots. The military also utilizes robots for…

Reading the chapters for three books, Modern Archives Read, Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives, and Providing referees services for Archives and Manuscripts talked about the same things in a different book. Before I summarized the chapter from the three books. I’d First would like to tell you the definition of the words archives. Pugh states that the word Archives mean the record of organizations in which was created or accumulated in the course of daily activities, and save by the…

Poetry Reading Response: Rickey Laurentiis I had a chance to see Rickey Laurentiis, an Black poet, along with a majority of my classmates at the Madison Public Library in the third floor Community Room. When I arrived, the first thing I noticed was that it was a very packed event; this caught me off guard. There weren’t a lot of seats available so some people had to either stand at the back of the room the entire time or stand outside by the door and listen carefully. Before this gathering,…

Author Summary Priscilla cummings is the author of many bestselling books. She since she was a little girl always enjoyed reading and writing. She has been an author since 1986 when her first published picture book Chadwick the Crab was released. As of 2012, she has made twenty–one book’s and currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland. She also has two cats both of Author Accomplishments • ABA Pick of the list for Fall (1997) • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan list (1999-2000) • American Library…

“Have fun Tally, see you in two weeks!”. Tally was over joyed that she’d finally been chosen over of the thousands of books in the library to be read, but when she looked up her face raged with horror as she realized the woman that held her was the librarian. The young woman placed the red book into a large box that read, “FREE BOOKS”. At that moment Tally knew she would never see her friend…

"A Wrinkle In Time" Do you know of any banned, or challenged books. I know of one that is called “ A Wrinkle In Time”. This book has been challenged much more than most books have been. The author of this book is Madeleine L’engle. My opinion of the banning of this book is that the book should not be banned. The reasons that many people challenged this book are for religion, the use of time travel accused of being a form of witchcraft, and last of all because of the use of profanity. The…

Kimbel Library and Bryan Information Commons are beneficial to many students and staff here at Coastal Carolina University. The reason Kimbel Library has such a vast collection of resources is because so they can be able to provide the students with the proper equipment so they can complete the task that they have been assigned. The library has 2 floors. The first floor has computers, printers, displays, and restrooms, just like the second floor. However, the second is split into separate areas…