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Category: Favorites From the Fifth Floor

Black and white photograph of librarians, mostly women, working with catalog cards in the Processing Department of the Library of Congress.

The Ambitious Girl

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

This week I have been relocating to a new office. This is my first move since I joined the Library over ten years ago and boy have I accumulated a vast collection of files and paper. Many of these files have been buried away and it takes a move like this for some interesting stuff …

Posted in: Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Women's History

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Collecting and Preserving Websites

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

As librarians, we identify, evaluate, select, collect, describe, preserve and provide access to materials to facilitate use. As librarians of the 21st century, we have integrated digital collections such as ebooks, databases, datasets, and other digital objects into our traditional analog collections. What about websites? Do libraries collect websites? Back in January,  I presented on …

Posted in: Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Science