Tag: collection management
Museum professionals generally agree that cataloguing standards like CCO, CDWA, AAT, TGN andULAN are important standards for museum collections, but collection management systems often do not directly incorporate…
To say that knowledge of foreign languages is useful for librarians in the city public libraries is an understatement. And yet library schools are not preparing future librarians to deal with barriers to access resulting from foreign languages, and past research on the topic in library science journals has been sparse. In order to understand this vital yet ignored part of public librarianship, I will analyze the different approaches that the NYPL and BPL take in developing foreign language collections, and I will make recommendations for future changes in the field.
Theft of unique items from special collections and archive departments is not a new phenomenon, nor is it a thing of the past. Understanding the seedier side of the industry can help librarians secure history for future generations.