Albert Gallatin the 4th Secretary of the Treasury
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A brief post on the 4th Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
Archive: January 2016 (4 Posts)
Five Questions: Yvonne Dooley, Business Reference Librarian
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
What is your background? I am a proud native Texan that grew up in and around the City of Houston. I earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Texas Tech University in less than four years and moved to Dallas upon graduation. I took a position as a “writer” for a technical staffing firm then …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions
James Johnston speaking about Yarrow Mamout on January 22 CANCELLED
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Due to the blizzard expected in the Washington region, the Library of Congress is closing all buildings at noon. (9:45 a.m 9/22/2016) Curious about a portrait of “Old Yarrow” by James Alexander Simpson that hangs in the Peabody Room of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown public library, James J. Johnston a journalist and attorney decided he wanted …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Miss Margaret Reynolds and Early Bank Libraries
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I had been a business librarian 100 years ago. Two articles from Bankers Magazine from the 1920’s on early bank libraries offer some insight. One article from June 1921,“Usefulness of Bank Libraries,” was brief and really only gave a little information about Guaranty Trust Company …
Posted in: Business