Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877) was professor and librarian at Union Theological Seminary from 1850 to 1874, joining the faculty at UTS after serving as a Congregationalist minister (1842-1847) and teaching philosophy at Amherst College (1847-1850). Smith is perhaps best remembered for the active role he played in the reunion of the Old and New Schools […]
Category: Summer 2017 Interns
Tibetan Studies A/V Internship- Summer 2017
The Complexity of Cataloging Tibetan ‘Music Videos’ In my Intro to Knowledge Organization class, Professor Amber Billey taught her students that cataloging was inherently political. She taught us about Sandy Berman and Hope Olson’s work; about the story that is “told” by classification. Items to be cataloged are multifaceted, and there is conscious decision-making behind […]