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Arlitsch, Kenning; Jonsson, Jeff | Aggregating distributed digital collections in the mountain west digital library with the CONTENTdm multi-site server | This paper describes the creation of the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL), a cooperative regional program distributed throughout Utah and Nevada. Its metadata are aggregated at a single website. Six digitization centers at the largest universities in both states digitize their own collections an... | Consortia; Metadata; Computer software, Development | 2005-06 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Towards a national disaster response protocol | Since the Florence flood of November 4, 1966, the concept of an organized disaster response for cultural property has been a focus for conservators. In 1976, a decade after the Arno River had retreated from Florence's museums, libraries, and historic churches, a Library of Congress planning confere... | Emergency; Property; Preservation | 2006 |
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| Industrial revolutions: from canal systems to computer networks | Today's so-called "Information Revolution" is often compared to past industrial revolutions, especially a British Industrial Revolution which took place between 1750 and 1830 and a Second Industrial Revolution which is believed to have occurred in the United States between 1880 and 1940. The compari... | Information technology; Information Age | 2000 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Connoisseurship of nineteenth and early twentieth century publishers' bookbindings | The vast majority of historically significant nineteenth- and early-twentieth century publishers' bookbindings reside in the general collections of research libraries. In no way does this minimize the importance of this material historically nor the library's professional obligation to guarantee its... | Publishers and publishing; Book Repair Practices | 2000 |
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Silverman, Randy | Bernard C. Middleton, MBE (1924-2019): | Bernard Chester Middleton was born in London in 1924 to Doris Hilda Webster, a secretary to a well-known barrister, and Regent Marcus Geoffrey Middleton, a talented bookbinder. At the age of thirteen in 1938, Bernard earned a trade scholarship to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Londo... | | 1995 |