Whether painted by artist-warriors depicting their feats in battle or by other Native American artists, 19th and 20th century ledger drawings--drawn on blank sheets of ledger books obtained from U.S. soldiers, traders, missionaries, and reservation employees--provide an excellent visual source of information on the Great Plains Native Americans. An art form representing a transition from drawing on buffalo hide to a paper medium, ledger drawings range in style, content, and quality from primitive and artistically poor to bold and sharp with lavish use of color. Although interest in ledger...
Whether painted by artist-warriors depicting their feats in battle or by other Native American artists, 19th and 20th century ledger drawings--draw...
Co-published simultaneously as Collection Management, v.22, nos.3/4 1998. Presents 22 contributions selected from the published proceedings of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group of Mountain View, California, between 1993 and 1995. Topics include the advantages and disadvantages of microfilm and digital conversion; how to cho
Co-published simultaneously as Collection Management, v.22, nos.3/4 1998. Presents 22 contributions selected from the published proceedings of five sy...
Explore the ARL s initiatives for identifying, formulating, and testing new criteria for evaluating academic libraries in the digital age The proliferation of electronic information resources in the past decade has changed the ways in which research libraries evaluate their service and holdings. This collection of articles (thirteen of which previously appeared in ARL s bimonthly newsletter/report on research issues and actions) examines new measures for library evaluation that are being developed by the Association of Research Libraries. It presents an overview of how the Association...
Explore the ARL s initiatives for identifying, formulating, and testing new criteria for evaluating academic libraries in the digital age The pr...
This bibliography is the first to provide systematic coverage of the numerous guides, directories, calendars, inventories, and registers on archives and manuscript collections in the United States. It also covers guides to foreign archives holding materials crucial to an understanding of U.S. history and extends beyond the continential United States to include archives in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other Trust Territories. Cutting across disciplines, this bibliography cites more than 2,000 titles from the humanities and the social and physical sciences. It also includes guides to...
This bibliography is the first to provide systematic coverage of the numerous guides, directories, calendars, inventories, and registers on archive...
The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles. It goes beyond the continental United States, including articles describing foreign archives that hold records and manuscripts documenting U.S. history and also incorporating articles about archives and manuscript holdings in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Trust Territories. The book is multidisciplinary, containing entries from art, theatre, film and television, business, education, history,...
The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volum...
Dating from the early 19th century, these materials include census records of the Five Civilized Tribes; records of attorneys specializing in Indian citizenship claims; and a variety of records from the Cherokee Nation. Other manuscript holdings include the Indian-Pioneer Papers; records of railroads, banks, businesses, and physicians; diaries of frontier and pioneer life, the Civil War, travel in western states, and life in Indian Territory; and collections relating to women. Designed for easy use, the guide is arranged alphabetically by collection title. Each entry has seven information...
Dating from the early 19th century, these materials include census records of the Five Civilized Tribes; records of attorneys specializing in Indian c...
