All occupations are worthy of study, a fact documented by many since Robert Park's classic research on the hobo, the taxi-dance-hall girl, and the professional thief. Librarianship, too, has been subjected to in-depth analysis ...

Living on the Prairie has become a community of teachers and students who use the Worldwide Web to share ideas about the natural and cultural history of central Illinois. The Inquiry Page provides a ...

In a practical sense, the minicomputer age began in 1964 with the Digital Equipment Corporation's introduction of the PDF 8. Potential com- puter users who had been unable to afford a $500,000 machine found that for ...

When computers were new, nobody had fun with them except, possibly, the people who created them. The computers themselves were locked away in special rooms and not everybody had access to them. Users, even the most ...

Libraries, whether medical or healthcare, in higher education (HE) institutions or the National Health Service (NHS), provide services to all types of healthcare students and professionals. Many of these are delivered ...

Heather Brown presents her work at a local school as "Libraries Use of S.T.E.A.M. Focused Makerspaces to Positively Impact Girls’ Attitudes About the Content Area."

As a cultural institution, the public library is charged with providing resources and services that fit the needs of a particular community and, if space and budgets allow, of serving as a resource and repository of the ...