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Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2006)

This report updates and expands on "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services," originally commissioned...

 

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A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (with Daphnée Rentfrow), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2005)

The word kaleidoscope comes from a Greek phrase meaning "to view a beautiful form," and...

 

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Family Values: Lessons in Material Culture, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2005)

As a research librarian for the past twenty years, I have often envied the scholar...

 

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A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2003)

This report provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library...

 

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The United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale University, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1997)

This chapter describes the creative and technical processes that led to the realization of a...

 

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Review of Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1996)

This ambitious volume calls upon a cadre of international specialists, ranging from scholars to practitioners,...

 

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Review of Joan E. Seiber, ed., Sharing Social Science Data: Advantages and Challenges, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1993)

This concise and straightforward collection of essays, written by leading authorities who create, document, disseminate,...

 

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Review of Irving Louis Horowitz, Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1992)

Communicating Ideas is the "second expanded edition," released in a paperback by Transaction Publishers, of...

 

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Review of Robert B. Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1992)

In his latest book, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism, Robert B....

 

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Review of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1991)

Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life offers scholars in the humanities, broadly conceived, a...

 

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Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1991)

This guide, eight years in the making, owes its existence to the Council of European...

 

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Trends in International Education: New Imperatives in Academic Librarianship, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1990)

The author describes new directions in international education during the past decade and links them...

 

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Mapping Library Resources in Dutch Studies Through the Conspectus, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1990)

The academic library profession has a long tradition of responding to two conflicting forces: local...

 

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A Customized Database on Scandinavian Government (with Robert B. Kvavik), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1988)

The development of the Scandinavian political studies database is a joint project of Martha Brogan,...

 

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Afterword: Organizing for Western European Studies: The Pioneering Stage, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1984)

In his 1975 essay, "Library Resources on Western Europe in the United States: A Critique,"...