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World Cup fever at its worst: the 1969 Football War
Published: 20/07/2018Missing the World Cup already? It ended well for France, who got a second star 20 years after the first one, and were able to claim that the Trophy was finally coming home. In 1969, however, the quali ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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My Job at the Library: Researching African-American Genealogy
Published: 19/07/2018Ahmed Johnson is a local history and genealogy reference librarian in the Library’s Main Reading Room and a specialist in African-American history. A bibliography he created, “African-Amer ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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100neHundred: dancing to remember the fight for the vote
Published: 19/07/2018Emily Wilding Davison is one of the most remembered figures of the women’s suffrage movement, iconic in her ultimate sacrifice of walking out in front of the Kings horse in the 1913 Epsom Derby. Image ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Library Coalition Letter on Music Copyright Bills
Published: 19/07/2018On Monday, the Internet Archive joined a coalition of the library and archives community, including the Society of American Archivists, The Archive of Contemporary Music, the Music Library Association ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org -
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Caught Our Eyes: In the Eye Wear of the Beholder
Published: 18/07/2018Digital Library Specialist Pete Richey spotted this intriguing photograph from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection and added it to our “Caught Our Eyes” w ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, 18 July 1918
Published: 18/07/2018Nelson Mandela was born at Mvezo, a village near Umtata, Transkei (now Eastern Cape) on 18 July 1918 into the royal lineage of the Thembu people. In this remote and rural part of South Africa, Mandela ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Five Questions with Susan Mordan, Volunteer Program Specialist for the Visitor Services Office
Published: 17/07/2018I am the Volunteer Program Specialist for the Library's Visitor Services Office, and I help recruit, train, and manage our volunteer corps of over 340 people. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Junior Fellow Builds Access to Postwar Poetry Archive
Published: 17/07/2018This post is an interview of Antonio Parker, a 2018 summer intern with the Junior Fellows Program. He is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned a bachelor’ ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Pic of the Week: Facilitating Access to Hebrew and Yiddish Periodicals
Published: 13/07/2018Sasha Zborovsky of Ohio State University examines one of the Yiddish periodicals she is organizing this summer in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Reading Room. She is one of 40 students ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Behind the scenes of organising an exhibition: Modern Brazilian Paintings (1944)
Published: 13/07/2018Recently, the Sala Brasil Arts Centre at the Embassy of Brazil hosted the exhibition ‘The Art of Diplomacy: Brazilian Modernism Painted for War‘. It reunited a selection of paintings from ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Digital Humanities, Service to Graduate Students and Why Future Academic Librarians Should Care
Published: 12/07/2018This article presents a brief overview of the digital humanities and the reasons why future academic librarians ought to pay attention to it, and focuses on a somewhat neglected area of service--servi ... Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Movie Theater Etiquette: Ladies, Kindly Remove Your Hats
Published: 11/07/2018Summer movie season is upon us! Many of us escape into a cool, dark theater to see the latest blockbuster film during these hot months. And while we wait for the feature to start, we are reminded onsc ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Resource Sharing, Wikidata, Web Archiving Metadata, RDM featured in Recent RLP Webinars
Published: 11/07/2018Five webinar recordings from the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) are now available to watch on demand. Read moreSource: www.oclc.org -
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Five Questions with Ryan Reft, Historian, Manuscript Division
Published: 10/07/2018One of the great things about my job is that the work changes on a daily basis. At the risk of over-simplifying: I oversee Manuscript Division collections that relate to domestic policy, which include ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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The NHS at 70, part 2: publicising national health
Published: 6/07/2018Welcome back to this, the second of my short series of blogs celebrating the 70th birthday of the NHS and taking a look at what records at The National Archives can tell us about its history. (Read Pa ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Double Take: FSA Photographer at Work, Cameras in Hand
Published: 5/07/2018The following is a guest post by Jan Grenci, Reference Specialist for Posters, Prints and Photographs Division. This post is the latest entry in the occasional Double Take series, where we take a clos ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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My Job at the Library: Bringing Collections to the Public Through Books
Published: 5/07/2018This post is reprinted from “Baseball Nation: Still Indivisible,” the July–August 2018 issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. Issues of the magazine are available online. Su ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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The NHS at 70, part 1: ‘Here is our chance to do something big’
Published: 5/07/2018Today (5 July) marks the 70th anniversary of ‘the appointed day’, 5 July 1948, when Britain’s new National Health Service treated its first patients. Seventy years on, the NHS is firmly established as ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Memories of Independence Day with Primary Sources
Published: 3/07/2018As we take a moment to stop and celebrate the birthday of the United States of America, pause and think about the ways in which you and your family celebrated Independence Day when you were a child. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Inquiring Minds: Exploring the Culture of Jazz Through Music and More
Published: 3/07/2018Robert O’Meally spent two weeks in residence at the Library of Congress earlier this year researching all things jazz. He is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literatur ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Exploring new ways of visualising The National Archives’ First World War diaries
Published: 2/07/2018Since 2014, The National Archives has been opening up our collection of handwritten First World War diaries, which document the story of the British Army and its units on the Western Front. Using the ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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