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Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
Visitor numbers look to be up by twenty percent from 2017, and room and house hire is growing steadily, attracting a diverse range of businesses from councillor training and universities to the NHS and charities. The programme of regular events includes a book group, a writing group, a sewing bee and a monthly second-hand book sale. An application for HLF Resilient Heritage Funding will be made in the autumn which, if successful, will help to secure our future by providing additional staffing support for the wedding and room hire market.
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Union-Active School Librarians and School Library Advocacy: A Modified Case Study of the British Columbia Teacher-Librarians’ Association and the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
This modified case study examines how the members of the British Columbia TeacherLibrarians’ Association (BCTLA), a Provincial Specialist Association (PSA) of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), work together to advocate for strong school library programs headed by a credentialed school librarian. Since 2002, despite nullification of a collective bargaining agreement that mandated a ratio of school librarians to students, the province has maintained 70 percent of its school librarian positions. The researcher found that the BCTF provides the structure and megaphone for advocacy, while the members of BCTLA are responsible for the “boots on the ground” advocacy. Members of BCTLA are passionate about the role of school librarians despite significant challenges. Two-way communication between BCTF and BCTLA is vital. Additionally, a strong personal connection exists among BCTLA members. However, despite consistent advocacy efforts made by BCTLA and BCTF, the organizations face an uphill battle in terms of having their efforts impact policy. Librarian interest groups can use the structure of the union to promote school library issues. If a union is not available, school librarians can use influence-building techniques and professional associations to effectively advocate for strong school libraries. Union activity in support of school libraries offers a promising opportunity for library advocates.
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Church Briefs in England and Wales from Elizabethan Times to 1828
From Tudor times until the early nineteenth century, church or charity briefs were officially issued to individuals or groups who had suffered catastrophic financial losses, allowing them to solicit donations from a wide community of Christians. This essay looks at the legal and institutional background of briefs and the changing contexts in which they operated, as well as exploring their nature, aims, receptions, and limitations. It puts a particular mechanism of charity back into the context of welfare machinery as a whole and uses its development to chart the changing (and geographically varied) relationships between institutions and society.
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The Design of the English Domestic Library in the Seventeenth Century: Readers and Their Book Rooms
The seventeenth century saw the increase in size of book collections in private hands. Domestic library collections were becoming more visible as important adjuncts to the lives of their socially and culturally engaged owners. This article explores the ways in which the practical and intellectual problems of storing books were addressed in the English home, through inventories and buildings accounts as well as contemporary literature. The changes in library furniture design over the course of the century are traced, together with the emergence of formal organizing systems such as catalogues and subject classification. Finally, the adoption of a different stylistic approach is examined.
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New England's Hidden Histories: Congregational Church Records in the Digital Age
From one-fifth of all American church members in 1776, Congregationalists had declined to four per cent, dwarfed by the astonishing success of denominations with centralized organizational structures and a popular style much more suited for the burgeoning religious marketplace, Methodists and Baptists in particular.1 It was during this time that Congregationalists adopted the Puritans - or, as they were more commonly known, the 'Pilgrim Fathers' - as their common identity marker, one that bestowed not just spiritual unity but cultural prestige and an unquestionably American religious pedigree. [...]the 'Puritan library and museum', as it was first called, was to be filled with books and portraits and, yes, relics, to inspire pride and generosity among American Congregationalists.2 As the dream of a few history-minded entrepreneurs, the Congregational Library struggled from the start. The stacks began to fill with everything and anything: world history and geography, art and architecture, city planning and urban problems - and of course preaching, praying, and counselling.5 The internet and the digital age changed everything. The dissertation became an important book on Puritanism, revising some of the hoary truths about ministers and laypeople held by generations of scholars who read mostly published sermons and theological treatises.6 What better individual to do some 'spot-checking' of the Worthley inventory, visiting a small number of selected churches to see if records were still in the same places they were when Dr Worthley first visited. In the United States digital projects of this scale are the province of leading, well-funded historical societies or academic libraries with access to endowments, development departments, and inexpensive student labour.
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La Trobe Reading Room
In English, it can be translated as \"Whoever seeks shall find,\" and among the thirty-two thousand books that the reading room can house, this holds true for anyone looking for a bit of educational enlightenment.
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Roomscape
Drawing on archival materials around this national library reading room, Roomscape is the first study that integrates documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this public interior space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces in literary texts. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege, an image firmly established by Virginia Woolf's 1929 A Room of One's Own and the legions of feminist scholarship that uphold this spatial conceit. Susan David Bernstein argues not only that the British Museum Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary traditions, she also questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female authorship, a principle generated from Woolf's feminist manifesto. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary, individual events, Roomscape considers the meaning of exteriority and the public and social and gendered dimensions of literary production.
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“Accommodating” smoke-free policies: tobacco industry’s Courtesy of Choice programme in Latin America
Objective: To understand the implementation and effects of the Courtesy of Choice programme designed to “accommodate” smokers as an alternative to smoke-free polices developed by Philip Morris International (PMI) and supported by RJ Reynolds (RJR) and British American Tobacco (BAT) since the mid-1990s in Latin America. Methods: Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents, BAT “social reports”, news reports and tobacco control legislation. Results: Since the mid-1990s, PMI, BAT and RJR promoted Accommodation Programs to maintain the social acceptability of smoking. As in other parts of the world, multinational tobacco companies partnered with third party allies from the hospitality industry in Latin America. The campaign was extended from the hospitality industry (bars, restaurants and hotels) to other venues such as workplaces and airport lounges. A local public relations agency, as well as a network of engineers and other experts in ventilation systems, was hired to promote the tobacco industry’s programme. The most important outcome of these campaigns in several countries was the prevention of meaningful smoke-free policies, both in public places and in workplaces. Conclusions: Courtesy of Choice remains an effective public relations campaign to undermine smoke-free policies in Latin America. The tobacco companies’ accommodation campaign undermines the implementation of measures to protect people from second-hand smoke called for by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, perpetuating the exposure to tobacco smoke in indoor enclosed environments.
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