Download or read book LIBRARY OF THE WOMAN S COLLEGE DUKE UNIVERSITY 1930 1972 written by BETTY IRENE. YOUNG and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of the Woman s College Duke University 1930 1972 Classic Reprint written by Betty Irene Young and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Library of the Woman's College, Duke University, 1930-1972 The idea that a book of this nature should be written came to me through my own inability to answer the frequent questions posed by library patrons about various art objects in the library or about why the library has the particular types of books that make up its collection. My usual response was to ask Miss Harrison, whose first-hand knowledge goes back to the beginning of the Woman's College Library in 1930, but the information that she supplied always made me wish to know more. From the time that the Woman's College at Duke ceased to exist in 1972, I frequently mentioned that someone should write a history of the Woman's College Library. When I made that comment to Professor Robert Durden in December 1975, he suggested that I undertake the project. So, I began the research with my goal to complete the book by the summer of 1978 in order to honor Miss Harrison at the time of her retirement. The research for this book has been extremely rewarding. Now I know the answers to most questions about the library asked by patrons and visitors, as well as having a better knowledge of the history of Duke University in general. I hope that those who read this book also will appreciate learning about some of the interesting events in the history of this one facet of Duke University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Library of the Woman s College Duke University 1930 1972 written by Betty Irene Young and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Launching of Duke University 1924 1949 written by Robert Franklin Durden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and authoritative history, distinguished historian Robert F. Durden tells the story of the formation of Duke University, beginning with its creation in 1924 as a new institution organized around Trinity College. As Durden reveals, this narrative belongs first and foremost to Duke University's original President, William Preston Few, whose visionary leadership successfully launched the building of the first voluntarily supported research university in the South. In focusing on Duke University's most formative and critical years--its first quarter century--Durden commemorates Few's remarkable successes while recognizing the painful realities and uncertainties of a young institution. Made possible by a gift from James B. Duke, the wealthiest member of the family that had underwritten Trinity College since 1890, Duke University was organized with Few as president. Few's goal was to turn Duke into a world-class institution of higher education and these early years saw the development of much of what we know as Duke University today. Drawing on extensive archival material culled over a ten-year period, Durden discusses the building of the Medical Center, the rebuilding of the School of Law, the acquisition of the Duke Forest and development of the School of Forestry, the nurturing of the Divinity School, and the enrichment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It was also during this period, as Durden details, that such treasures as the Sarah P. Duke Gardens were created, as well as some near treasures, as seen by the failed attempt to start an art museum. Although the story of the birth of this University belongs largely to William Preston Few, other people figure prominently and are discussed at length. Alice Baldwin, who led in the establishment of the Woman's College, emerges as a fascinating figure, as do William H. Wannamaker, James B. Duke, William Hanes Ackland, Robert L. Flowers, Justin Miller, and Wilburt Cornell Davision, among others. Although impressive growth occurred in Duke's formative years, tensions also arose. The need to strike an institutional balance between the twin demands of teaching and research, of regional versus national status, combined with continual shortages of funds, created occasional obstacles. The problem of two sets of trustees, one for the university and another for the Duke Endowment, loomed largest of all. As Few himself said, during these early years Duke successfully embarked on a long journey, for it was not until after World War II that Duke University consolidated the growth begun in the inter-war years. An important contribution to the history of Southern higher education as well as to Duke University, this book will be of great interest to historians, alumni, and friends of Duke University alike.
Download or read book The Journal of Library History written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Leaders in American Academic Librarianship 1925 1975 written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duke University written by John M. Bryan and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke University was officially founded in 1924. Until 1950 it was designed primarily by Julian Abele, one of the few professional African-American architects working in the United States at that time. The campus architecture is best known for its medieval-style Gothic buildings, notably Duke Chapel.
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Download or read book Doing the Work of Reference written by Linda S Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become more versatile, competent, and resourceful with these practical suggestions! Becoming a first-class reference librarian demands proficiency in a wide range of skills. Doing the Work of Reference offers sound advice for the full spectrum of your responsibilities. Though many aspects of a reference librarian's work are changing with astonishing speed, the classic principles in this volume will never go out of date. This comprehensive volume begins with hints for orienting yourself to a new job and concludes with ideas for serving the profession. On the way, Doing the Work of Reference covers such diverse topics as working with student assistants, offering reference services to remote users, and keeping up your professional development. In addition, you will find strategies for dealing with technological change--not high-tech information that will become obsolete before the ink is dry, but ways of approaching the process of change that will work today, next week, and ten years from now. Doing the Work of Reference will help you increase your competence in: getting along with other staff members marketing the library to users and faculty handling ephemeral materials keeping students’attention in library instruction courses maintaining good relations with faculty increasing your subject knowledge and much more! This comprehensive guide is an essential handbook for librarians in the trenches. Whether you are a new librarian or a veteran at the reference desk, Doing the Work of Reference will help you burnish your skills.
Download or read book Keep the Damned Women Out written by Nancy Weiss Malkiel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coed As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "Keep the damned women out." Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education—revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women activists, but through strategic decisions made by powerful men. In America, Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth began to admit women; in Britain, several of the men's colleges at Cambridge and Oxford did the same. What prompted such fundamental change? How was coeducation accomplished in the face of such strong opposition? How well was it implemented? Nancy Weiss Malkiel explains that elite institutions embarked on coeducation not as a moral imperative but as a self-interested means of maintaining a first-rate applicant pool. She explores the challenges of planning for the academic and non-academic lives of newly admitted women, and shows how, with the exception of Mary Ingraham Bunting at Radcliffe, every decision maker leading the charge for coeducation was male. Drawing on unprecedented archival research, “Keep the Damned Women Out” is a breathtaking work of scholarship that is certain to be the definitive book on the subject.
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Download or read book Library History Research in America written by Andrew B. Wertheimer and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen essays cover six topics relevant to the field of library history. These include: critical approaches, pioneers in the field, new directions for study, cognate fields, The Library History Round Table, and the state of library history research. Specific attention is given to service provided to youth, women, the gay community, and multicultural populations. Contributors include librarians, archivists, bibliographers, and scholars of library science. Distributed by Oak Knoll Press. c. Book News Inc.
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