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The Brave New World of Book Buying

The Brave New World of Book Buying”Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other … For every thing that is given, something is taken,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay “Self-Reliance.”The newest application of this old wisdom involves the world of book buying. Amazon.com, the […]

December 17, 2003

A Library Fit For A King

A Library Fit For A KingUniversity, city officials pool funds, resources to build an institution for all agesBy Pamela Burdman SAN JOSE, Calif.San Jose’s spanking new library, the nation’s first city-university library, is confronting an unexpected problem in its first few months: success. The library is simply much more popular than city and university officials had […]

December 3, 2003

Database Publisher Releases Top 10 Dissertation List

Database Publisher Releases Top 10 Dissertation ListANN ARBOR, Mich.A Michigan company that creates and distributes databases for libraries and educational institutions has released its annual Top 10 list of best-selling dissertations in 2002. Among the topics covered in the dissertations are health care, online banking, executive leadership and e-business. The No. 1 seller in 2002 […]

November 5, 2003

Little-Known Civil Rights Pioneer’s Papers Donated to UVa

Little-Known Civil Rights Pioneer’s Papers Donated to UVaCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.When Alice Jackson Stuart sent a handwritten letter to the administrators who rejected her application to the University of Virginia in 1935, she became one of the earliest but least-known pioneers of the civil rights movement. Stuart was the first Black person ever to apply to the […]

November 5, 2003

Preserving Our Literary Legacies

Preserving Our Literary LegaciesWhen assistant editor Kendra Hamilton proposed the idea to do a piece on Black literary journals, the editorial staff agreed that this could be an interesting article. However, no one got more out of writing and reporting the piece than the reporter herself.Kendra expressed great enthusiasm as she reported back from her […]

November 5, 2003

University of Iowa to Help African Schools With Internet

University of Iowa to Help African Schools With InternetBy Ronald Roach IOWA CITY, Iowa A University of Iowa project that recently got more than $225,000 in federal grants will help African universities expand their educational opportunities through Internet and satellite technology. U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, presented the WiderNet Project’s co-director, Cliff Missen, with about […]

July 30, 2003

Report Shows Schools, Libraries Rely on E-Rate Subsidies

Report Shows Schools, Libraries Rely on E-Rate Subsidies By Ronald Roach WASHINGTONWith schools and public libraries facing the toughest budget cuts in years, E-Rate (education rate) support for basic telecommunications services, Internet access and networking is essential, according to a new report from the Education and Library Networks Coalition (EdLiNC). In EdLiNC’s third edition report, […]

July 30, 2003

Michigan Researchers Study Letters of Slave-Trading Family

Michigan Researchers Study Letters of Slave-Trading FamilyPapers revisit long-standing taboo of mixed-race affairs DETROITA collection of 10,000 letters written by a family of slave traders and studied by University of Michigan researchers touches on one of the most controversial topics of the time: mixed-race affairs and the families that resulted. The papers of John Tailyour […]

March 12, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History Makers

Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History MakersVideotaped interviews ultimately to be made available in digital archivesBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports One hundred years from now when a scholar researches the Black community of the early 21st century, he or she should have access to the HistoryMakers digital archive, a collection of videotaped […]

January 29, 2003

Schomburg Center to House Malcolm X Archival Material

Schomburg Center to House Malcolm X Archival MaterialNEW YORKA large collection of Malcolm X’s diaries, photos, letters and other materials have been placed on long-term deposit at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where they will be made available to researchers. The materials provide unprecedented insight into the viewpoints […]

January 29, 2003

Emory May Lose Rare Collection of Lynching Photos

Emory May Lose Rare Collection of Lynching Photos ATLANTAA rare exhibit of lynching photographs may be leaving Atlanta for good. Frustrated with its caretaker, Emory University, the collection’s owner recently drove to the Emory library and loaded boxes of lynching photos and other material not part of the exhibition at the Martin Luther King Jr. […]

January 15, 2003

University, Nonprofits to Build Children’s Library in Cyberspace

University, Nonprofits to Build Children’s Library in Cyberspace By Ronald Roach COLLEGE PARK, Md.A partnership of government, nonprofit, industry and academic organizations last month announced a five-year, $3.3 million plan to build a digital library of 10,000 children’s books drawn from 100 cultures as part of a long-term research project to develop new technology to […]

January 1, 2003

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