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  • 1908 Sewers: Monroe Street and Ward 7


    Knickerbocker Village — Authority Authority: 136
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    3 hours ago

  • What I am genealogically thankful for this year.


    Virginia Family Tree Genealogy — Authority Authority: 112
    I know this is a day late but I was thinking about it last night...what are the top ten things I am thankful for in genealogy this year?  It took me awhile to fill this list but here we go, in no particular order... State budget cuts this year did not severely hamper the Library of Virginia.  In past years, they ...
    1 day ago

  • Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?


    TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority Authority: 661
    Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system . The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post . But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading 2.0 list, here’s an except from Harvard Professor Robert ...
    2 days ago

  • They’re Back! The Exquisite Corpse Episode 5 is Up!


    educating alice — Authority Authority: 467
    “Hold everything,” said Boppo. Everyone obeyed as much as possible. Joe held the birthday card with their parents’ urgent cry for help. Nancy held the bull-whip in readiness. The baby held the last note in the “Star Wars” theme song. Einstein held his breath. Want to know if the baby and Einstein ever ...
    2 days ago

  • Millennium Arts Salon Kicks Off It’s All About Art: Celebrating 10


    Authentic Art Visions — Authority Authority: 123
    On Saturday, November 21st, The Millennium Art Salon held it’s first Annual Salon Club Membership Meeting and Drive at the MAS headquarters.  The meeting applauded the current and new members of the MAS board and volunteers, who are vital to program execution.  A full crowd of board members, volunteers, ...
    3 days ago

  • Most Indians still feel that US giving India short shrift


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 725
    Washington, Nov.24 (ANI): A majority of Indians across the United States feel that President Barack Obama gave too much deference to China during his recent Asia trip, and thus created doubts about whether Washington is on India’s side, reports the Christian Science Monitor.With Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...
    4 days ago

  • Presentation Announcement: Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe — FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web


    Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Authority Authority: 402
    Add this event to your desktop calendar program. Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on modeling bibliographic information based on a “Paper Tool” technique adopted from physics. The title of the talk is “ Re-Imagining the Bibliographic ...
    5 days ago

  • Library of Congress Investigators Said to Get Guns Back, Restart Criminal Probes


    American Conservative Daily — Authority Authority: 502
    The Library of Congress inspector general reportedly will resume investigations into old criminal cases that were put aside after the office lost its ability to buy and carry firearms.  
    5 days ago

  • Thomas Manns new report on the Library of Congress


    Cataloging Futures — Authority Authority: 110
    Wow, its been almost two years since weve seen a report from the LC reference librarian, Thomas Mann. Here it is: What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them, And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal ...
    5 days ago

  • Civil War era Presidential Elections


    Teaching the Civil War with Technology — Authority Authority: 107
    In this season of elections, I thought it would be interesting to share a website on Civil War era elections. Harper’s Weekly has created a website for researching historical elections from 1860 to 1912. According to the website, the Presidential Elections page features political cartoons from several different ...
    1 week ago

  • Photo Quote


    Doodlemeister's Weblog — Authority Authority: 117
    “A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” Dorothea Lange, Photographer 1895-1965 “White Angel Breadline” By Dorothea Lange, San Francisco, California, 1933 National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Social Security Administration
    1 week ago

  • How Many Books Dance on the Head of an e-Pin?


    The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority Authority: 557
    Can the model used in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records be extended to embrace e-works? Or should it be trimmed instead?
    1 week ago

  • New Resource: Tiny URLs for Links from the Library of Congress’ THOMAS System…


    Legal Research Plus — Authority Authority: 467
    A valuable web tool — tinyThom.as — that makes the links on the Library of Congress’ legislative website, THOMAS, permanent, has been introduced recently; see:Mighty Tiny ThomasCross-posted on LawLibraryBlog.
    1 week ago

  • Was Carl Cephas’ Separation From the Library of Congress Overdue?


    Arts Desk — Authority Authority: 144
    As the lead library technician for the Library of Congress’ music division, Carl Cephas specialized in retrieving obscure rock and jazz materials for patrons. To a handful of his coworkers and managers, he specialized in being a major headache. There was the time he told his supervisor Mary Wedgewood , “Fuck ...
    1 week ago

  • Image of Lincoln at Gettysburg


    Teaching the Civil War with Technology — Authority Authority: 107
    Since I have posted on The Gettysburg Address in the past , I thought I would share this USA Today headline article about a “new” image of Abe Lincoln at Gettysburg being found at the Library of Congress. The story discusses how an amateur historian was looking at photographs of the famous Gettysburg Address ...
    1 week ago

  • Paul McCartney Awarded The U.S. Gershwin Prize


    Rock on the Streets - Music News — Authority Authority: 437
    Paul McCartney will be awarded with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the U.S. Library of Congress . The former Beatle will be only the third person to receive the honer when he is presented with the ward at a special all-star tribute concert set for sometime in 2010. In a press conference on Monday ...
    1 week ago

  • Thursday, November 19, 2009


    Ink In My Coffee — Authority Authority: 128
    Interior, Library of Congress Thursday, November 19, 2009 Waxing Moon Uranus Retrograde I’m on the road all day, headed back to NY. I’ve got a post up on Kemmryk about loss , since this is the first anniversary of my grandmother’s death. I am so sore that I’m almost looking forward to the long bus ...
    1 week ago

  • Paul McCartney Wins Gershwin Prize


    andPOP.com — Authority Authority: 148
    Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, reports CBC. The former Beatle, 67, is the third person to receive the honour for songwriting, administered by the U.S. Library of Congress. “It is hard to think of another performer and composer who has had a more indelible and transformative effect ...
    1 week ago

  • Paul McCartney to be Awarded the Gershwin Prize For Popular Music in 2010


    The Silver Tongue — Authority Authority: 146
    Former Beatle, Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize For Popular Music, which is awarded by the US Library Of Congress, in the spring of 2010. McCartney will be the third musician to receive the prize. An all-star tribute concert to honor McCartney will take place around the same time the award is presented  ...
    1 week ago

  • Macca to receive Gershwin Prize for Popular Song


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 725
    Adelaide, Nov 18 (ANI): Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is set to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.The prize is a US Library of Congress honour, named for US composer brothers George and Ira Gershwin, many of whose original works are part of the Library’s huge collection.It has been previously been ...
    1 week ago

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