Dark Archives

Dark Archives
Author: Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0374717427

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

The Associate University Librarian Handbook

The Associate University Librarian Handbook
Author: Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810883813

Associate university librarians are charged with running the various services and workflows of academic research libraries allowing head university librarians to focus on acquiring resources through fundraising and external public relations. Although the positions of assistant or associate university librarian and dean are considered a training ground for upward movement in the profession, there are surprisingly few mentoring experiences available. The Associate University Librarian Handbook: A Resource Guide fills that gap. Bradford Lee Eden has brought together a variety of helpful topics for university librarians. The first section of the book provides a broad overview of the field and what it means to be an associate librarian. A section on managing change, a topic endemic to the academic library in these times, follows. The next section deals with funding the library enterprise and managing resources, with chapters on budget reductions, cultivating donors and donor relations, and managing a research function. The fourth section covers career management and includes chapters on navigating the transition to university librarian. A concluding section deals with leadership and defining the future. Intended for both those in the position of associate university librarian and for those aspiring to get there, The Associate University Librarian Handbook is a valuable tool and guide. Book jacket.

Excellence in Library Management

Excellence in Library Management
Author: Charlotte Georgi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317951204

Experts explore the latest and most successful techniques in library management, offering fresh insights and practical guidelines.

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles
Author: Mirella Ferrari
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520338308

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Ency of Library and Inform Sci 2e V4 (Print)

Ency of Library and Inform Sci 2e V4 (Print)
Author: Miriam A. Drake
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 874
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780824720803

A revitalized version of the popular classic, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition targets new and dynamic movements in the distribution, acquisition, and development of print and online media-compiling articles from more than 450 information specialists on topics including program planning in the digital era, recruitment, information management, advances in digital technology and encoding, intellectual property, and hardware, software, database selection and design, competitive intelligence, electronic records preservation, decision support systems, ethical issues in information, online library instruction, telecommuting, and digital library projects.

The Los Angeles State Normal School, UCLA's Forgotten Past: 1881-1919

The Los Angeles State Normal School, UCLA's Forgotten Past: 1881-1919
Author: Keith Anderson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2015-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 132931719X

The history of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) officially begins in 1919. However, the university had its real beginnings as the Los Angles State Normal School. This book aims to correct the historical misperception of the founding of UCLA.

Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America, Volume 2

Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America, Volume 2
Author: Patrick Lo
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-11-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1804551392

Volume 2 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Chinese, Korean, and Asian American librarianship