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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: communicating voucher information to the accounting department from automated library systems(pt. 2) | Bit by Bit column: "This is the second of a two-part article. Part 1 (ATG Feb. 1991) presented some general considerations about the value of the automation process, the time and effort saved and the improved accuracy achieved by eliminating redundant data entry. Part II will present the rudiments o... | Library automation; Library information systems; Library acquisitions | 1991-06 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: CAUSE, The Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education | Bit by Bit column: "A few columns ago we wrote about EDUCOM, an important player in the education and computing arenas. This column describes CAUSE, another player in this arena, which is probably less well known than EDUCOM." | Information Technology, management; Academic Libraries, information technology; Computing and information technologies, evaluation | 1991-11 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Book repair program at Brigham Young University: an institutional profile | Brigham Young University's (BYU) Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL), situated in the arid Intermountain West, is a research library containing slightly more than three million volumes. The library consists of a main library, as well as separate business, museum, and learning resource center libraries. The... | | 1992 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Hurricane havoc in paradise | Tuesday 3 November 1992: Having previously cast absentee ballots, six conservators departed from Honolulu airport on election day for Kaua'i and a first-hand look at the damage caused by Hurricane Iniki. | Recovery; Mold; Kaua'i museum | 1992 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Pamphlet binders and their use in research libraries | By definition, research libraries have a commitment to preserving pamphlets as well as all print and non-print media they collect. A discussion of the preservation requirements for pamphlets is useful for their survival, and pamphlet binders are an important tool in preparing these often ephemeral ... | Pamphlets; Preservation; Binders | 1992 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Importance of permanence | Color, opacity, weight, texture, printability, and permanence - the choice of paper is critical to any successful printing job and can spell the difference between a satisfied customer and one you'll never see again. Paper is an organic material and as such begins breaking down from the moment of i... | Paper; Acid free; Alkaline paper | 1992 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: electronic data interchange (EDI) and the X12 format | Bit by Bit column: "Do you remember when you were trying to buy those socks, but had to wait at the cash register because the scanner would not read the barcode? You wondered why the clerk couldn't just ring up the price that was clearly marked on the tag and take your money. Welcome to the world of... | Computers; Electronic data transfer; Libraries | 1992-02 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Bit by bit: digitizing information | Bit by Bit column: "Librarians began to explore the technologies that allow printed materials to be converted to a digitized form in the 1980's. This technology essentially turns a printed original work into a computerized image. Although the technology is not new, it is only recently that it has be... | Digital technology; Digital holdings, libraries | 1992-04 |
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| Sons of Martha: reshaping the electric industry | In summary, what had we actually done? Succinctly stated, we had made dramatic changes in the way the electric utility service was to be offered in the future. The changes had been to some degree institutional and political. But primarily they were technological. And all of this was done at lesser c... | Public Trust | 1992-10-07 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: plagiarism- a victim speaks out | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "With all the talk of plagiarism lately, I thought it was time to hear the story of an author who was a victim of plagiarism, a viewpoint that has yet to be presented in ATG. | Plagiarism; Authors, ownership; Publishing | 1992-11 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Organizing acquisitions: the Yale University experience | The acquisition of materials for large research library collections is a complex process requiring large numbers of staff and highly developed management skills. Even in the best of times it is easy for this complicated process to be less than effective. When faced with budget cuts, staff layoffs, o... | Acquisitions; Research libraries; Library management | 1992-12 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | First word in lasting impressions | The creaking lever-action of a Columbian letterpress printing damped, handmade paper with cast metal type is an anomaly in the modern age. What now can be achieved within minutes on an offset press requires hours of meticulous setting, locking up, inking, and proofing to print on a Columbian powered... | Columbian letterpress; Clymer; Red Butte Press | 1993 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: [readers' survey] | In preparation for a discussion at the Charleston Conference, I am asking librarians, vendors, publishers, and system vendors who read Against the Grain to answer a survey about how services and products that support information delivery and dissemination are developed and change over time. For exa... | Reader surveys; Libraries; Acquisitions; Vendors | 1993 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: educational opportunities | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: The fourth ALCTS Business of Acquisitions Institute will be held in Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University June 3-4, 1993. These instituties are designed to teach a basic understanding of the complex function of acquiring materials for libraries to beginnin... | Acquisitions, Educational opportunities; Association for library collections and technical services | 1993-02 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: a glimpse of paradigms | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "The concept of the paradigm, as generally cited in the literature, derives from the work of Thomas Kuhn in the 1960's. Kuhn, an historian of science, set out to explore how science, and scientists, actually worked. Kuhn found that scientific activity tends to be... | Thomas Kuhn; Paradigms; Librarianship, trends; Librarianship, Philosophy; of | 1993-04 |
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| Technology and human progress: the information revolution | The world has entered the Information Age. We can look forward to even more dramatic changes in the future than those we have witnessed in the past. These changes are challenging individuals, institutions, and nations. Even though information transmission, processing, and utilization has increased b... | Telecommunication; Information Age | 1993-10-07 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: what are our obligations? | Acquiring Minds Want to Know column: "Are there rules that govern the practices of librarians, vendors and publishers? Clearly there are ethical considerations that guide our behavior as individuals. Acquisitions librarians are in the midst of making formal their code of ethics. But what other, perh... | Acquisitions; Vendors; Publishers | 1993-11 |
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| Perfect journey: WordPerfect helping the world communicate | Can you imagine how difficult communication would be if the telecommunications industry had not adopted open industry standards on a global basis? As it is now, you don't have to know how the PBX system works in order to make a telephone call. You just pick up the phone and dial the number. That's h... | Text editing; Interactive word processing | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | First paper made west of the Missouri | The need for paper was recognized in Utah by the American Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers before their arrival in "Great Salt Lake City" (as it was originally called) in 1847. Frustration at having to delay plans to publish a newspaper was noted in a letter drafted by Young on July 17... | Deseret News; Thomas Howard; Sugar House Mill; Granite Paper Mill | 1994 |
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Ogburn, Joyce L. | Acquiring minds want to know: smart systems, smart books | This article will outline a specific suggestion both to aid some basic acquisitions functions and their management. It will focus primarily on use of vendors, vendor performance and business terms. I have several suggestions for improvement, which were touched on briefly in the first article, based... | Libraries; Acquisitions; Vendors | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Carol Twombly on type | The appeal of an inviting building begins with its solid architectural space. So too with typography, that all-too-often unnoticed "architecture" implicit in the conveyance of the printed word. Viewed under magnification, bold, vertical stems clearly support cross bars like studs; spherical bowls op... | Typography; Type designer; Typeface | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | J. J. Audubon & 19th century color printing | In 1826, the first hand-colored proofs of John James Audubon's double elephant folio edition of The Birds of America were pulled in Edinburgh, Scotland. His life-sized Wild Turkey was among them, transforming the 41 year old naturalist's "innate desire to acquire a thorough knowledge of the birds o... | John James Audubon; Copperplate; Lithograph | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Gibbs Smith: progressive publisher | There is a country twang reverberating in the national blood stream at the moment. Resurgent interest in the American West has mainstreamed country music, drawn ever-larger crowds to the Buffalo Bill and Gene Autry museums, and landed Clint Eastwood two Oscars for his Unforgiven in 1992. | Peregrine Press; Electronic pre-press; Western culture | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Library collections conservation discussion group: taking a comprehensive look at book repair | A national effort to improve the quality of book repair operations is under way. This work has been spearheaded by the Library Collections Conservation Discussion Group (LCCDG) of the American Institute for Conservation. During the past three years LCCDG has broadly examined samples of book repair t... | Collections; Techniques; Treatment | 1994 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Running on alkaline | Sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century paper is unmistakable; it reeks of permanence. Its color, opacity and quality speak of strength and durability Handmade, you say? Cotton and linen fibers? True enough. But the longevity in these ancient sheets (noticeably lacking in much nineteenth and ... | Alkaline pH; Precipitated calcium carbonate; Acid paper | 1994 |
