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I just added a new project to my Projects page. It's a list of locations in St. Louis to find World War II primary source material and links to a page of Victory Garden citations that the archivist at the Missouri Botanical Garden Archives, Andrew Colligan, sent to me. Check out their site--very cool pictures scanned from glass plate negatives. Try zooming in on one; the level of detail is astounding.
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For my family and friends who haven't quite understood what I mean by "subject specialist," this article describes the career. For library students, it also has some hints about how to apply for jobs as subject specialists.
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Last night we visited the Brodsky Library, the Jewish community library of St. Louis. It feels a lot like a public library, allowing anyone to check out books for a minimal membership fee and serving many patrons who read mainly fiction or are under age eight. All of the collection, including fiction but excluding some children's books, have some Jewish content or theme. There's a fairly large Yiddish collection, a lot of material in Hebrew, and some material (particularly current periodicals) in Russian.
According to librarian Barbara Raznick, the Brodsky Library has the most accessible collection of Holocaust materials in the St. Louis area. Washington University has good material as well, but high school students, for example, have a harder time getting the right to check out books there than at the Brodsky Library.
One of the things I'm learning from this Special Libraries class is the advantages a librarian has if she or he is familiar with other library collections in the area. If I were a reference librarian at Meramec Community College, I would want to send students working on Holocaust projects or doing other research in Judaica to the Brodsky Library, but I knew nothing about it until last night.
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Our Special Libraries class visited the library at the St. Louis Art Museum last night. As a member of the Museum for about twenty years, I've surely heard about the library before, but it never registered. I had no idea that it was so amazing. Since it's in the modern part of the building, I assumed that the library would be in a modern style. Instead, the Reading Room has the classic and elegant feel of an English country house library with walnut shelf cabinets and furniture designed by the architect of the original building, Cass Gilbert.
Most of the collection sits in closed stacks and includes an astounding number of auction catalogs and folio-sized art books as well as many books about artists and the times and places where they lived. Besides the book collection, the library also has a large slide collection and access to several on-line art databases.
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GODORT, the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, has a handout exchange. These are clearly written information sheets (now, more often, web sites) about particular aspects of government documents.
For example, the library at UC Berkley explains how to track down declassified documents, which doesn't appear to be a particularly straightforward process.
Since I'm learning to process government documents in my practicum, I think I'll read some of the processing procedures handouts to make sure that I understand the big picture as well as the details.
I've been to this site before but was reminded of it again by an email announcing new handouts sent to the GOVDOC-L listserve by Grace York of the University of Michigan.
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