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Recent Literature on the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013)
Sculpting the Future: Planning for Libraries in Transformation
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
Books reviewed
Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library. Edited
by Joseph Janes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow press. 2013. Print: 161 pp. 45.00
USD. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8714-5 (pbk. : alk. paper); ...
The Revised Procrastinator's Handbook of Library Research
(The University of Winnipeg Library, 2018-03)
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)
For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ...
Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2016-05)
A review of two recently-released books, The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays and Stephen Grant’s Collecting Shakespeare, both of which explore Henry and Emily Folgers’ shared obsession with collecting First Folios ...
Van Oudenhoven: Some New Ancestry of the Verveelen Family
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013)
This article extends the Van Oudenhoven ancestry figuring in the author's 2015 publication "A note on the family of Thomas Chatfield, great-uncle of the three Chatfield brothers of Connecticut, and probable father-in-law ...
The parentage of Sir Justus Beck
(Notes & Queries / Oxford University Press, 2012-03)
This note demonstrates that Sir Justus Beck (1679–1722), 1st Baronet, was baptized 8 November 1679 at Amsterdam, as Joost, son of Jacob George Beck and Margaretha de Smeth.
Winnipeg Site Implementation Final Report
(2014-09-26)
This report documents the implementation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project in Winnipeg. It reports on the viewpoints and perspectives of the site’s stakeholders concerning the fidelity ...
Millennium For All Alternative Report on Public Library Security
(LIS Scholarship Archive (LISSA), 2019-09-09)
In response to the airport-style security measures implemented at the downtown Millennium Branch of the Winnipeg Public Library, concerned library users, academics, and library workers came together to prepare a report ...
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...