Brief History of Library Automation: 1930-1996

Gregory Institute was founded in 1870 after 5 years since African Americans bought the land to end slavery in Texas. The African American library at the Gregory School is a library that preserves most of the historical information about the African-American people especially the Freedmen’s Town’s people that lived in the Houston area after the Civil War ended in 1865. The library contains three galleries and each of them is about Education, Religion, and the Freedmen’s Town which was the center of African American community in Houston during the post Civil War era. The library also has a restored classroom from 1929, a list of honorable African American people who dedicated their lives for the city of Houston, and many twentieth century antiques

The United States Constitution is a document which has governed the United States for over two centuries. Although amendments altered the original Constitution that the founding fathers ratified, the context of the original document remains the same. A living document interpreted as the current of the culture pulls is not what the founding fathers intended.

In the article, “Textbooks Enter the Digital Era” A university student Jason Turgeon, realized there had to be a cheaper way to acquire textbooks. So in 2005 he started textbookrevolution.org., which links students with free digital textbooks on the Web. Turgeon then explains what the textbooks of the future may look

Writing research papers is a crucial requirement for any course in all universities and colleges. Students are forced to do a thorough research on various topics and support their papers with peer-reviewed scholarly sources. The question has been where do most of them find these sources to support the information on their research papers? While doing their academic research papers, most students depend on the Ashford University Library for their sources. Through the Ashford University Library, students can search through different avenues and find the resources needed for their research papers and theses. Ashford University Library is the best place any student can ever find suitable peer-reviewed and scholarly sources to be used in academic

People were trying to learn in the hopes that they could get a job, and libraries were and continue to be places where adults and children alike can learn. The 1920s and 1930s would become a time where the education of disabled individuals would be evaluated. The aftermath of WWI left many people disabled, so libraries came up with new and better ways to help their patrons. The creation of libraries for the blind, growth of hospital and children’s libraries, and the standardization of school libraries all came out of this time period. Readers with clear voices were recorded to be played back at the request of blind people and a standardized Braille system was established and many collections began to include these books. Guidelines were sent out to schools so that all students could obtain a substantial experience from the library down the hall from their classroom. Organizations set up in the New Deal programs, specifically, the programs where people lived away in camps on building projects, built libraries for the workmen. The WPA created advertisements directed towards children to attend the

The District of Columbia Public Libraries are encouraged to develop information, reference, and directional services consistent with the goals of the community. Meeting the information needs of the community calls for a variety of resources and a broad understanding of the kinds of questions that patrons may need answered. The library must make sure that staff is well equipped with the necessary skill they need to provide good information service. Information can be considered as the raw material used in producing each and every decision taken in an organization. Organizations need to decide regularly on what objectives to be achieved, what actions to take to achieve these objectives, how and when these actions are to be taken, and the resources

The Library will collect materials in a variety of formats divided into three main types: print (hardcover books, paperback books, large-print books, graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, etc.), non-print (CDs, DVDs, and miscellaneous objects in the Library of Things), and electronic resources (online databases,

In this day and age, how and what people use to communicate with one another or store data, has evolved over the past years. With cool new gadgets that seem to always be showing up on the shelves of electronic stores, are now being favored and bought by a great number of consumers. What was once in their place, not only on the shelves of electronic departments but also once apart of peoples' daily lives, are now hard to find if still being sold. Nonetheless, still being made. Some of these gadgets, which are now known to be ancient and probably collecting dust in someone's garage, would be the portable CD player, the pager, and the floppy

Libraries have been transitioning to the digitalization of literature for preservation and distribution purposes. When a group of libraries gave works to HathiTrust for digital conversion, tension from the owners of the work began to rise. The Authors Guild, an organization that has been supporting writers and their rights since 1912, filed a case against HathiTrust to protect intellectual property. Google formed HathiTrust, an organization that the libraries loaned books to for the purpose of digital scanning and creating metadata files (Ford, 2011).

Books have greater advantages over their more recent technological counterparts. While computers, phones, and tablets provide a high level of convenience, they come with high cost and many related disadvantages. The single largest advantages that books have is they are inexpensive and available to everyone worldwide. The single largest disadvantage for technology is the required building of supporting infrastructure and the cost to acquire the technology. Books will always be around for someone to pick up and read while computers files have to be constantly updated.

Document management systems (DMS) are simply a combination of hardware and software that help manage and collects electronic documents, converting paper documents into PDF documents, indexing and storing them for easier access. (Fig.1). This facilitates searches for such documents in the future, vice going through boxes in the archives basement. This system can support the large demands that Riordan has, especially as a growing company. If mobile access is an issue, this system is accessible via Internet. We can also look into implementing an integrated system called enterprise content management (ECM). Riordan will be saving an enormous amount of money with this change. Traditionally, this company has been maintaining paper documents in different warehouses; file clerks running around most of the day searching for documents in different locations. DMS will clearly demonstrate an improvement in the turnaround time related to any requests for documentation, relieving the stress related with the historical lack of efficiency that has been a

There are myriad ways a child may develop a love of reading, however in the modern era it seems that this passion and hunger for not only knowledge but for the pure enjoyment derived from it has been all but lost. I have children of my own that are not old enough to begin to approach about this and most other children I see are too endeavored with their tablets, videogames and social media to be concerned with it. I can therefore only speak from the one common frame of reference I have and that is myself. In doing so, I will inform you of just how a child may develop a love of reading and possibly shed some light on how children may come to have a love of reading even now.

1. Does the school have a computer lab? If so, which grades use it and how often do they use it?

Libraries are an important resource, both to those who use them and to the area in which they reside. Over the years, libraries have changed from being simple repositories of printed books and materials. Instead, libraries now are home to ever changing technologies, community meeting rooms, areas in which children can participate in a variety of activities, and a multitude of other things, in addition to the previously housed print materials. As the Carnegie libraries of the past, and other libraries, begin to become less well-suited to the mission of the modern library, it is possible that many library directors may find themselves in a position of being asked to plan a new building. This is a multi-faceted process which must be carefully considered in order to be a success. While there is no such thing as a perfect library, one which has been carefully thought out and well-designed may more easily gain acceptance by the community. Steps which must be taken are a consideration of problems with the existing building, the creation of a building team, a thorough assessment of needs, a determination of how much space is needed, selection of site location, the design of the library, and a post-occupation evaluation.

The sounds of the outside world struggled to penetrate the thick glass of the library. In the still of the quiet study area, all that could be heard were three tired students.