scholarly journals Grants and Acquisitions

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Ann-Christe Galloway
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
American Research ◽  
National Effort

The Library of Congress has received a $540,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to evaluate the physical health of the national collection of books in American research libraries and to guide their archive retention and preservation decisions. Since there currently is no objective formula to assess the condition of millions of books in the custody of the nation’s libraries, this scientific study will help inform best practices and provide a baseline for libraries to analyze their print collections based on established scientific guidelines. This is the first effort of its kind to lay the scientific groundwork for the development of a national effort to preserve the corpus of books held in American libraries.

Acquisitions on a Grand Scale

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-121
Author(s):  
Kathy Peiss
Keyword(s):  
National Interest ◽  
Industrial Scale ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
American Military ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
War Department ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
American Research

After the war, the new Librarian of Congress Luther Evans worked with State and War Department officials on a plan to send library agents to Europe. The agents would acquire every book published in Germany and occupied countries and distribute them to American research libraries. The Library of Congress Mission to Europe was a unique collecting effort that acquired 1.5 million books, periodicals, and other materials. Initially a book-purchasing plan, it evolved into an industrial-scale acquisitions program under the American military government in Germany. It seized works from research institutes, specialized libraries, and Nazi collections, helped US Army document centers screen confiscated works, and acquired materials deemed to have no intelligence value. In its short existence, the mission embodied a new commitment among American research libraries, that large international collections were necessary to serve the national interest.

scholarly journals CONCEPT AND ELEMENTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Oleh Melnik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Office System

The relevance of the scientific article is due to the reform of the prosecutor's office. In the process of transforming the prosecutor's office system, it is necessary to introduce in its activity modern practices aimed at improving the effectiveness of the prosecutor's office. In this regard, there is a need for scientific study of the organizational support of the prosecutor's office. The purpose of the scientific article is to define the concept and elements of organizational support for the activities of the prosecutor's office. The basis for studying the organizational support of the prosecutor's office is theoretical studies of the organization of work and management in the prosecutor's office. Based on the analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine, as well as scientific sources, organizational support is considered in broad and narrow meanings. Thus, in a wide meaning, this concept can be defined as a complex of all measures, means and resources that are necessary for the operation of the prosecutor's office. Elements of organizational support for the prosecutor's office in a broad sense are: personnel support, information support, financing, logistics, innovative and technological support. In a narrow sense, organizational support provides a set of techniques and means aimed at streamlining the work of the prosecutor's office, ensuring its controllability as a system and effective exercise by prosecutors. So organizational support includes the administration of the prosecutor's office and ensuring work in the prosecutor's office. It was concluded that it is necessary to improve the normative regulation of organizational support for the prosecutor's office in section X of the Law of Ukraine «On the prosecutor's office». At the same time, a systematic approach is important, involving formation of an integrated mechanism of organizational support for the activities of the prosecutor's office and identification of the subjects responsible for this. Perspective directions for further scientific researches within the defined topic of the study are used to analyze individual elements of the prosecutor's office, as well as the study of the best practices of the organization of the prosecutor's office.

scholarly journals The Tax Reform Act of 1984 and American research libraries

1988 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 589-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
American Library Association
Keyword(s):  
Tax Reform ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
American Research

The Tax Reform Act of 1984 and American research libraries

Nijhoff in America: Booksellers from the Netherlands and the Development of American Research Libraries – Part I

Quaerendo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Edelman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Innovative Leadership ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
American Research ◽  
The Hague

AbstractAmerican libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century and were among the world's most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from the earliest efforts to about 1970, when the unprecedented growth came to an end. The building of the international library collections could not have been achieved without the enterprising efforts of many booksellers in England and on the European continent. Among those who made significant contributions, were three booksellers from the Netherlands: Frederik Muller, Martinus Nijhoff and Swets & Zeitlinger. This article describes their role, but concentrates on Martinus Nijhoff, publisher and bookseller of The Hague, who had by far the longest successful tenure in supplying American libraries with European books and periodicals. Between 1853 and 1971, three generations of the Nijhoff family – Martinus, Wouter and Wouter Pzn –, with their staff members, built one of the leading international publishing and bookselling houses in the Netherlands. Their legacy is permanently embedded in the collections of the great North American libraries.

scholarly journals Strategies for Building Digitized Collections

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby Smith
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Digital Conversion ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Selection Policies

Libraries have been digitizing collections for a decade or more. Their collective experience has produced a depth of technical expertise and a set of tested practices. That information is widely shared among library staffs and has been well reported at meetings and in publications. This ongoing experiment with representing research collections online has resulted in the codification of technical practices and the emergence of clear trends in selection policies. This paper reviews existing selection practices in libraries, identifies selection policies and best practices where they exist, and discusses the long-term implications of the opportunities and constraints that shape digital-conversion programs. This is not a systematic review of what all research libraries are doing, but an analysis of significant achievements that will make it possible to identify good practices and benchmarks for success. Every library, regardless of size or mission, will need to determine for itself how and when digitization will move from being an experiment to becoming a collection-development strategy that is well integrated into its daily practice.

scholarly journals Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Under the Context of Research Data Librarianship

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Liu
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Digital Object Identifier ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
German Research ◽  
Persistent Identifier ◽  
Different Levels

A digital object identifier (DOI) is an increasingly prominent persistent identifier in finding and accessing scholarly information. This paper intends to present an overview of global development and approaches in the field of DOI and DOI services with a slight geographical focus on Germany. At first, the initiation and components of the DOI system and the structure of a DOI name are explored. Next, the fundamental and specific characteristics of DOIs are described and DOIs for three (3) kinds of typical intellectual entities in the scholar communication are dealt with; then, a general DOI service pyramid is sketched with brief descriptions of functions of institutions at different levels. After that, approaches of the research data librarianship community in the field of RDM, especially DOI services, are elaborated. As examples, the DOI services provided in German research libraries as well as best practices of DOI services in a German library are introduced; and finally, the current practices and some issues dealing with DOIs are summarized. It is foreseeable that DOI, which is crucial to FAIR research data, will gain extensive recognition in the scientific world.

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