The library especially recognizes the responsibility to serve as a place for children to discover the joy of reading, the importance of literacy, and the value of libraries. The library acquires, organizes and provides books and other relevant materials, ensures access to information sources throughout the nation and the world, serves the public with expert and caring assistance, and reaches out to all members of the community. The mission of the Asbury Park Public Library is to provide quality, cost-effective services, and lifelong learning opportunities, through books and a variety of other formats, to meet the informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs and interests of its diverse population. They sponsor and operate more than 160 service organizations in collaboration with tens of thousands of committed co-ministers, staff and volunteers. The Sisters of Mercy serve with more than 3,100 Mercy Associates, several Companions in Mercy, close to 1,100 Mercy Volunteer Corps alumni and thousands of co-workers in Mercy-sponsored programs and institutions – all sharing in the Mercy mission and following the example of Catherine McAuley. With over 6,000 Sisters of Mercy around the world, they are part of a global network. With over 2,000 sisters in the Americas, the Sisters of Mercy strive to make a difference in the lives of those in need in North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Guam and the Philippines. They commit their lives to God and their resources to serve, advocate and pray for those in need around the world. Inspired by the life of Jesus and by their founder Catherine McAuley, the Sisters envision a just world for people who are economically poor, sick and uneducated. The Sisters of Mercy are an international community of Roman Catholic women who dedicate their lives to the Gospel of Jesus and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service. For more information visit: įounded in 1925 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2017, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the preservation, research, interpretation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diasporan, and African experiences.
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The #SchomburgSyllabus project aims to document 21st century global Black life by continuing the development of the #Syllabus web archive collection and connecting today’s digital creations with the Schomburg Center’s historical collections. Mellon Foundation’s generous support for the #SchomburgSyllabus project under the Scholarly Communications grant structure. Depending on collection guidelines and the nature of individual websites, websites may be archived at regularly scheduled intervals, such as semi-annual or quarterly.ĭevelopment of the Schomburg Center’s web archiving program is made possible with generous support from Community Webs, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Internet Archive, and The Andrew W. Collections are developed and curated around certain topics relating to the Schomburg Center and Black culture. The Web Archive Collections include websites, online audio and video, blogs, and other media, organized around specific topics, events, or movements, as well as the Schomburg Center’s own web pages.