Browsing by FAS Department "Libraries/Museums"
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Leveraging Library Trust to Combat Misinformation on Social Media
(Elsevier BV, 2019-01)One reason librarians are confident they have a role to play in fighting misinformation is the level of trust in libraries as institutions. Exactly how they might leverage that trust remains unclear and untested. Building ... -
Librarians and Statistics: Thoughts on a Tentative Relationship
(2012)Librarians are not trained as original researchers during library school. As a result, librarians as authors may succumb to common statistical misconceptions and use errors, thus it is important for librarians to know how ... -
Libraries and Fake News: What’s the Problem? What’s the Plan?
(Portland State University Library, 2019)This article surveys the library and information science (LIS) response to the problems of fake news and misinformation from the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the end of 2018, focusing on how librarians and other ... -
Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom
(Progressive Librarian Guild, 2020)This paper critically examines the concept of intellectual freedom (IF) and the central role it plays in the U.S. library and information science (LIS) profession, challenging the concept’s assumed basis in neutrality and ... -
Little Creatures that Run the World: Bringing Ants to a Wider Audience
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are among the most ubiquitous and successful creatures on earth. They are the subject of research by ant biologists worldwide, and with over 8,800 identified species, access to quality ... -
Mesmerism and the End of Enlightenment in France
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Motivations, design, and preliminary testing for a 360° vision simulator
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04-23)Contemporary virtual reality systems enable academics to more efficiently explore and analyze complex three-dimensional (3D) content, but their utility is limited by visual short-term memory. Janus, a geometry agnostic ... -
Negation and Functional Projections in Early Grammar
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Of Current Interest: Recent Research on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Houghton Library
(Houghton Library, 2006) -
Of Euripides and E-Books: The Digital Future and Our Hybrid Present
(Purdue University Press, 2015) -
On Digital Archives: Lessons from the Susan Sontag Hard Drives
(2015)This paper relates to work I was involved in when I was Director of UCLA Library Special Collections, to acquire two hard drives of documents, correspondence, email, photographs, and other materials created and compiled ... -
One-shot or Embedded? Assessing Different Delivery Timing for Information Resources Relevant to Assignments
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2013-03-14)Objective – This study aims to determine if the timing of library in-class presentations makes a difference in the type and quality of resources students use for each of four assignments in an introductory speech class. ... -
Picturing Prayer: The Book of Hours in the Middle Ages
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Powder Struggle: How a Contaminated Rare Book Collection Led to a New Paradigm of Collaboration at Harvard
(SAGE Publications, 2023-03-16)In 2015 staff in Harvard University’s Widener Library discovered an unidentified white powder in a few early twentieth-century books in Persian and Urdu languages that had been acquired four years previously from a rare ... -
Printers’ Devices as Decorative Elements in Library Architecture
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Profiles in Science for Science Librarians: Paul Callistus Sereno
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)Paul Sereno is one of the better-known paleontologists of our time. His expeditions have taken him around the world, and he has discovered new dinosaurs – and other ancient creatures – in places as far-flung as Argentina, ... -
Research Librarian
(2016-06-06)There is general agreement among librarians today that we need to rethink our roles, find new ways to reach out to our patrons, and raise our library’s profile in the wider community. Showcasing library resources is an ... -
The Research Practices of Faculty in Asian Studies: A Local Report by the Harvard Library
(Harvard College Library, 2018-03-16)In 2017, Harvard University participated in a national study on research practices of academics in Asian studies. The goal of the study was to understand the resources and services these faculty members need to be successful ... -
Sheet Music Round-up
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11-27)We are living in a great age for sheet music research. After a long period of scholarly apathy, in the last few decades the world has awoken at last to the great historical value that sheet music holds, from its topical ... -
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty
(Houghton Library, Harvard University., 2019-04)The story of Apollo 11 is fascinating because it involves so many interconnected developments in the history of math and science, engineering and technology, and travel and exploration, driven by both peaceful inquiry and ...