Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Report
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The State Library and Archives of Texas
Author: David B. Gracy
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029272201X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to deliver the essential, nonpartisan library and archival functions of government within a political environment in which legislators and governors usually agreed that libraries and archives were good and needed—but they disagreed about whatever expenditure was being proposed at the moment. Gracy recounts the stories of persevering, sometimes controversial state librarians and archivists, and commission members, including Ernest Winkler, Elizabeth West (the first female agency head in Texas government), Fannie Wilcox, Virginia Gambrell, and Louis Kemp, who worked to provide Texans the vital services of the state library and archives—developing public library service statewide, maintaining state and federal records for use by the public and lawmakers, running summer reading programs for children, providing services for the visually impaired, and preserving the historically significant records of Texas as a colony, province, republic, and state. Gracy explains how the agency has struggled to balance its differing library and archival functions and, most of all, to be treated as a full-range information provider, and not just as a collection of disparate services.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029272201X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to deliver the essential, nonpartisan library and archival functions of government within a political environment in which legislators and governors usually agreed that libraries and archives were good and needed—but they disagreed about whatever expenditure was being proposed at the moment. Gracy recounts the stories of persevering, sometimes controversial state librarians and archivists, and commission members, including Ernest Winkler, Elizabeth West (the first female agency head in Texas government), Fannie Wilcox, Virginia Gambrell, and Louis Kemp, who worked to provide Texans the vital services of the state library and archives—developing public library service statewide, maintaining state and federal records for use by the public and lawmakers, running summer reading programs for children, providing services for the visually impaired, and preserving the historically significant records of Texas as a colony, province, republic, and state. Gracy explains how the agency has struggled to balance its differing library and archival functions and, most of all, to be treated as a full-range information provider, and not just as a collection of disparate services.
Report
Author: Michigan State University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Biennial Report
Author: West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Biennial Report of the State Geologist
Author: North Carolina Geological Survey (1891-1925)
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Biennial Report of the State Geologist
Author: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor
Author:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Virginia Woolf
Author: Jones Clara Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474410294
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Rescues the particularities of Virginia Woolf's political and social participation, tracing her career as an activist across forty-five yearsClara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Drawing on extensive archival research into these organisations, Jones also positions Woolf's activism with regard to the institutional contexts in which she worked. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary career.Focusing on texts that represent the range of Woolf's literary output, this book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Rather than offering readings of Woolf's well-known 'political' works, Jones instead uncovers the unexpected ways in which Woolf's activism made its way into unlikely texts.Key FeaturesIncludes two new transcriptions of material by Woolf: the 'Report on Teaching at Morley College' ('Morley Sketch') and the 'Cook Sketch'Provides insights into the histories of neglected institutions through accounts of Woolf's activismExplores a range of texts, reading across genres with an alertness to class and gender politics in each case
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474410294
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Rescues the particularities of Virginia Woolf's political and social participation, tracing her career as an activist across forty-five yearsClara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Drawing on extensive archival research into these organisations, Jones also positions Woolf's activism with regard to the institutional contexts in which she worked. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary career.Focusing on texts that represent the range of Woolf's literary output, this book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Rather than offering readings of Woolf's well-known 'political' works, Jones instead uncovers the unexpected ways in which Woolf's activism made its way into unlikely texts.Key FeaturesIncludes two new transcriptions of material by Woolf: the 'Report on Teaching at Morley College' ('Morley Sketch') and the 'Cook Sketch'Provides insights into the histories of neglected institutions through accounts of Woolf's activismExplores a range of texts, reading across genres with an alertness to class and gender politics in each case