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Preservation of collections often includes some element of risk management: monitoring a storage area can help head off disasters like leaks or insect invasion.

In 1955, the National Association of Manufacturers presented "Americade," a traveling exposition.

On June 2, 1977 staff from the Hagley Library recorded an interview with Mr Willard Wilson.

One common question about patent model inventors is, “Were they successful?” For some well-known inventors such as Thomas Edison, the answer is yes. For others, it isn’t so easy to determine and perhaps their patent is all that is known

The book project I am researching involves understanding the Pennsylvania Railroad management’s fierce determination to resist, reduce, and eliminate unionism among its employees in the 1920s.

At the 2016 Grammy Awards show, Stevie Wonder issued an earnest charge to his audience: “We need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability.” To a cataloger, the thought of providing access to every si