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Postcards, individually and collectively, contain a great deal of
information that can be of real value to students and researchers.
Postcards in the Library gives compelling reasons why libraries
should take a far more active and serious interest in establishing
and maintaining postcard collections and in encouraging the use of
these collections. It explains the nature and accessibility of
existing postcard collections; techniques for acquiring, arranging,
preserving, and handling collections; and ways to make researchers
and patrons aware of these collections.Postcards in the Library
asserts that, in most cases, existing postcard collections are a
vastly underutilized scholarly resource. Editor Norman D. Stevens
urges librarians to help change this since postcards, as items for
mass consumption and often with no apparent conscious literary or
social purpose, are a true reflection of the society in which they
were produced. Stevens claims that messages written on postcards
may also reveal a great deal about individual and/or societal
attitudes and ideas.Chapters in Postcards in the Library are
written by librarians who manage postcard collections, postcard
collectors, and researchers. Some of the authors have undertaken
major research projects that demonstrate the ways in which
postcards can be used in research, and that have begun to establish
a standard methodology for the analysis of postcards. They write
about: major postcard collections, including the Institute of
Deltiology and the Curt Teich Postcard Archives the use of
postcards for scholarly research postcard conservation and
preservation, arrangement and organization, and importance and
value Postcards in the Library describes the postcard collections
in a variety of libraries of different kinds and sizes and
indicates very real ways in which the effective use of postcard
collections can result in and contribute to substantive, scholarly
publications. It also offers advice and suggestions on the myriad
issues that libraries face in handling these ephemeral fragments of
popular culture.Special collections librarians, postcard
collectors, postcard dealers, and historical societies will find
the information in Postcards in the Library refreshing and
practical. Libraries with established postcard collections or those
thinking about developing postcard collections will use it as a
valuable planning tool and start-to-finish guide.
This book, first published in 1982, focuses on providing
information about the policies and practices surrounding the
preparation and submitting of articles to the major journals in
library and information science. This guide includes all the major
American, Canadian, British, and international professional
journals that solicit, accept and publish articles in the field.
This book, first published in 1982, focuses on providing
information about the policies and practices surrounding the
preparation and submitting of articles to the major journals in
library and information science. This guide includes all the major
American, Canadian, British, and international professional
journals that solicit, accept and publish articles in the field.
An anthology of library humor by the director of the mythical
Molesworth Institute, Norman Stevens, this book is sure to provide
librarians with many hours of amusement. This collection is full of
Stevens'most memorable papers describing the odd kinds of research
conducted by the Institute, such as a sophisticated study of the
disappearance of umbrellas in libraries, a computer analysis of
library postcards, and a "precostretrieval" scheme to accelerate
the disintegration of book pages while saving the letters in them.
Archives of Library Research from the Molesworth Institute is also
well-stocked with unforgettable one-liners, such as the author's
"plan to solve a major space problem for libraries by microfilming
all Braille books."The imaginary Molesworth Institute has taken on
a life of its own since its story first appeared in the ALA
Bulletin in 1963. Stevens writes mostly for fun and entertainment,
but also to stress the point that librarians should take a less
serious view of their work. After all, as Stevens points out in
this anthology, "The library world, like the real world, [is]
impossible to understand on a rational basis." Now librarians can
enjoy the convenience of having Stevens'most treasured
papers--spanning over two decades--all in one very funny book.
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