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New Online: Occupational Culture of Home Health-Care Workers
Published: 21/02/2019This post by Stephanie Hall of the American Folklife Center was first published on the center’s blog, “Folklife Today.” An important new oral history collection documenting the lives ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Caught Our Eyes: A Thought-Provoking Farm Security Administration Negative
Published: 21/02/2019Digital Conversion Technician Brittany Long added this image to our “Caught Our Eyes” sharing wall a few months ago, with a two-word comment: “Representation Matters.” Brittany ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Primary Sources for Musical Learning: Squirrel Hunting, Singing, and Thinking in Elementary School
Published: 21/02/2019In addition to being fun, by design children’s songs teach valuable critical thinking skills. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Medieval Church and State, and the nun who faked her own death
Published: 20/02/2019In the high summer of 1318, a nun of the priory of St Clement near York – Joan of Leeds – staged a daring escape from her convent. She left behind a life of poverty, self-denial, chastity and obedienc ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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African-American History Month: First Pan-African Congress
Published: 19/02/2019This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It coincides with the centenary this month of the first Pan-African Congress. The problem of the 20th century is the problem ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Defining Shared Values in our Growing Digital Content Management Section
Published: 19/02/2019When 10 new staff members joined the Digital Content Management (DCM) section last year, our unit more than doubled in size. We were excited to expand the groundbreaking work done by our web archiving ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Five Questions with Gretel von Bargen, 2018 Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute Participant
Published: 19/02/2019This post was written by Gretel von Bargen, a high school International Baccalaureate biology teacher and a 2018 Einstein Fellow. Gretel participated in the one of the sessions of the 2018 Library of ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Thematic Research Collections: What’s the Big Deal?
Published: 18/02/2019I wanted to share some interesting things I’ve come across in my research for my thesis project. The project focuses on digital tool development as a way for librarians, research […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Internet Archive helps make books accessible for students with disabilities
Published: 16/02/2019The Internet Archive will be part of a team that is working to address a key challenge for students with disabilities: getting books in accessible formats. This participation aligns with an existing I ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org
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The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive and the General Maritime Treaty of 1820
Published: 15/02/2019Over the past two years, The National Archives and the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been working together to develop the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive. Five thousand files f ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Susan B. Anthony: Birthday Toast and Cartoon Roast?
Published: 14/02/2019No one relishes being made fun of, especially when celebrating a birthday. But Susan B. Anthony, who was born February 15, 1820, will perhaps not turn over in her grave if we acknowledge just how prom ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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African-American History Month: A Forgotten Tribute to President Abraham Lincoln
Published: 14/02/2019This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Researcher and Reference Services Division. Abraham Lincoln was fond of poetry: He wrote poems, read t ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Presidential Memorials and Public Memory
Published: 14/02/2019Some might argue that existing presidential shrines add a touch of majesty, yet the article provokes the questions: What are the many ways in which the U.S. memorializes its presidents, and why? Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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LGBTQ+ history: Maud Allan and ‘unnatural practices among women’
Published: 14/02/2019It is safe to say that no lawsuit of modern times has attracted such universal and painful interest. Maud Allan was a much-celebrated dancer on the West End stage in the early 20th century. She capti ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Recordings and Resources Now Available from ALA Midwinter
Published: 14/02/2019OCLC Research presented in a number of ways at ALA Midwinter, now videos and slides are available. Read moreSource: www.oclc.org
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A Love Letter to the People Who Build the Internet Archive
Published: 14/02/2019When you visit a public library, you get to meet the librarians and others who build and care for those collections. You know there are people who empty the garbage cans, who put back the borrowed boo ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org -
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ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is
Published: 13/02/2019With many thousands of software items up at the archive, we’re both very useful and also very intimidating, depending on how exactly you know what you’re looking for. While it’s grea ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org -
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Soldiers, At Ease: Finding Your Career in Libraries
Published: 13/02/2019I saw myself through to the end of my seventh year, and with reluctance and eagerness I retired my uniform, my rank, and my identity. I had aspirations to learn […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com
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Join us to discuss seven centuries of Irish history
Published: 13/02/2019Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 March 2019 Dominus Hibernie/Rex Hiberniae: pre-modern Ireland, 1200-1801 Tickets from £30 From 21 to 23 March 2019, we welcome historians of medieval and early modern Irelan ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Ain’t I a Woman? A Suffrage Story for Black History Month
Published: 12/02/2019Many people are familiar with the "Ain't I a Woman" speech given by Sojourner Truth, but fewer know the story behind the speech--or the different accounts of the speech and its delivery. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Rare Books: “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
Published: 12/02/2019This is a guest post by digital library specialist Elizabeth Gettins. It coincides with the posting of additional illustrations from the Library’s 1895 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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