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Patron Services: Prints and Photographs Research Orientation

Come learn about the resources of the Prints and Photographs Division. One of the division’s reference librarians will provide an overview of the wide range of pictorial materials in the Prints and Photographs Division and will offer tips on how to make the most of its online offerings and future visits to the reading room.

Date:  Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, 11:00-12:00 EST

Location:  Library of Congress James Madison Building, Room 337

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Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: Saturday Research Orientation: Manuscript Division

Join Manuscript Reference Librarian Lara Szypszak for a focused orientation to resources located in the Manuscript Reading Room. This session will share the letters of love from members of congress to their spouses, writers to their paramours, artists to their muses, and more. Celebrate Valentine’s Day (better late than never) with notes of romance found in the Manuscript Division’s collections, and also learn how to find materials for your research projects utilizing the Manuscript Reading Room’s resources in-person and remotely. The session includes general information on conducting research in the Manuscript Reading Room and time for Q&A about research strategies or steps on specific research projects. All researchers are welcome. See the following link for Maps and Floor Plans in the Jefferson Building: https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/thomas-jefferson-building/first-floor/

Date: Saturday, February 15, 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST

Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Building, Room 139B

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Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: Conversations with African Poets and Writers, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah

The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: History Unfolded Research Sprint

The Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room is hosting a participatory research event with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for their History Unfolded project. In mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began systematically to deport Hungarian Jews. Help us learn how the United States press reported on these deportations by researching microfilmed newspapers from across America.

Contribute to History Unfolded: https://newspapers.ushmm.org  

Space is limited, so please RSVP: http://bit.ly/Feb2020Sprint

Where: Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, LM-133, 1st floor, Madison Building

When: Monday, February 24, 2020, Drop-in anytime between 4pm and 7pm

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Patron Services: Law Library Classes – March 2020

The Law Library of Congress offers free webinars and in-person classes in Washington, D.C. The in-person classes are held in Madison Building, Room LM-201.

 “Orientation to Law Library Collections" (10am-11am) – Thursday March 5.  This session is designed for patrons who are familiar with legal research, and would instead prefer an introduction to the collections and services specific to the Law Library of Congress.

WEBINAR "Orientation to Legal Research (OLR): Statutes” (11am-12pm) – Thursday March 19. This entry in the OLR series provides an overview of U.S. statutory and legislative research, including information about how to find and use the U.S. Code, the U.S. Statutes at Large, and U.S. federal bills and resolutions.

"Orientation to Legal Research (OLR): Tracing Federal Regulations” (10am-11am) – Tuesday March 24. This entry in the OLR series provides an overview of U.S. federal regulations, including information about the notice and comment rulemaking process, the publication and citation of regulations, and the tracing of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, to the proposed rule in the Federal Register, to the regulation’s docket.

WEBINAR "Congress.gov"  (2pm-3pm) - Thursday March 26. This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the Congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will be highlighted.

To register, visit the Law Library’s “Webinars and In-Person Orientations” webpage, http://www.loc.gov/law/opportunities/seminar-orient.php .

For maps of the Madison and Jefferson Building see, https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/.

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov

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Patron Services: Women Photojournalists: an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Library staff will collaborate with the public at this event to expand and improve information in Wikipedia, the world’s most-used reference source. While we will initially focus on women whose work is represented in Library collections, this event is designed to improve articles about any women photojournalists. Anyone with an interest in learning to use Wikipedia, or in researching women in the arts, is encouraged to attend.

Date: Sat, March 21, 2020, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Building, Programs Lab, Room LJ-G25 & LJ-G27

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Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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Patron Services: CANCELLED - Orientation to the European collections of the Library of Congress

Notice: Library buildings are closed to the public until April 1. Public events are canceled until May 11.

 


 

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What’s in Our Water? New Research on Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water and Their Public Health Implications

In this episode of On the Evidence, Cindy Hu, a Mathematica data scientist, discusses the prevalence of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in our drinking water, as well as their health implications and ways to address them through public policy.




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The Power of a Data-Informed Partnership: Working with Community-Based Organizations to Address Social Determinants of Health

With their multi-faceted understanding of the communities in which they operate, community-based organizations bring a valuable lens that could help health systems learn how certain social services received in the community affect health, and how other factors may dampen an intervention’s effect.




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Proactive, Holistic, and Risk-Based: Plotting the Course for Program Integrity in State Medicaid Agencies

By using an enterprise risk management approach, state Medicaid agencies can meet new federal program integrity requirements, serve more clients, improve the quality of care, and contain costs.




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What Doctors Need to Fulfill the Promise of Electronic Health Records

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.




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Prescribing Social Services: Leveraging Data to Diagnose and Treat the Social Determinants That Affect Health

This post describes how health care systems and providers have been—and can be—critical partners in collecting and acting on social determinants of health data.




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Insights to Improve Food Security in Malawi

Senior Researcher Kristen Velyvis highlights the long-term impact of a program designed to improve nutrition and food security for more than 200,000 households with chronic food insecurity in southern Malawi.




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Embracing the Emotional Aspects of Public Policy Research

On the Evidence interviewed Mathematica’s Matt Stagner about his upcoming APPAM presidential address, his work on child welfare, and his reflections on public policy research. This interview is part of a series of episodes produced by Mathematica in support of the APPAM conference in November.




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Progress Together Toward a More Diverse and Inclusive Mathematica

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do means thinking critically about what diversity means and taking important steps to create a Mathematica where everyone feels welcome and can cultivate a meaningful career.




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The Most Rewarding Research I’ve Ever Done…

In 2013, I led a team of researchers who traveled to Minnesota, Kansas, and Missouri for a series of in-depth interviews with fathers for the Parents and Children Together (PACT) evaluation.




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What the Next Generation of Policy Researchers Is Studying

On this episode of On the Evidence, we feature six short interviews with the 2019 summer fellows about the research questions they pursued and what they have learned so far.




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Tips for Boosting the Reach and Impact of Policy Research

On this episode of On the Evidence, economists Jennifer Doleac and Kosali Simon share lessons from their experiences interpreting and translating policy research for media interviews, Twitter, podcasts, and elsewhere.




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Tips to Quickly Switch from Face-to-Face to Home-Based Telephone Interviewing

Across the United States and around the world, in-person survey data collection has been halted to protect against COVID-19 spread; now what?




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Gameworld interfaces / Kristine Jørgensen

Barker Library - GV1469.34.P79 J67 2013




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Gaming at the edge: sexuality and gender at the margins of gamer culture / Adrienne Shaw

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 S53 2014




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Gameworlds: virtual media and children's everyday play / Seth Giddings

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 G53 2014




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Players and their pets: gaming communities from Beta to Sunset / Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 C66 2015




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Building HTML5 games with ImpactJS / Jesse Freeman

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Advances in computer games: 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 1-3, 2015, Revised selected papers / Aske Plaat, H. Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters (eds.)

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Cultural code: video games and Latin America / Phillip Penix-Tadsen

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 P46 2016




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Values at play in digital games / Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 F63 2014




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Polished game development: from first steps to final release / Steven Goodwin

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Serious games: foundations, concepts and practice / Ralf Dörner, Stefan Göbel, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Josef Wiemeyer, editors

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Gameworld Interfaces / Kristine J{slash}orgensen

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Contemporary research on intertextuality in video games / Christophe Duret, Christian-Marie Pons, [editors]

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.C6464 2016




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The monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game / Mary Pilon

Hayden Library - GV1469.M65 P55 2016




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The advanced game developer's toolkit: create amazing Web-based games with JavaScript and HTML5 / Rex van der Spuy

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Playful identities: the ludification of digital media cultures / edited by Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul, Joost Raessens

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63.P52 2015




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Dangerous games: what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / Joseph P. Laycock

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.L395 2015




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Rated M for mature: sex and sexuality in video games / edited by Matthew Wysocki and Evan W. Lauteria

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 R37 2015




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Cross over to HTML5 game development: use your programming experience to create mobile games / Zarrar Chishti

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Computer games: 6th Workshop, CGW 2017, held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August, 20, 2017, Revised selected papers / Tristan Cazenave, Mark H.M. Winands, Abdallah

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Location-based mobile games: design perspectives / Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Mariani

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Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, adventure games, hidden objects / Anastasia Salter

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.S214 2017




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100 greatest video game franchises / edited by Robert Mejia, Jaime Banks, Aubrie Adams

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.A15 2017




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Gaming representation: race, gender, and sexuality in video games / edited by Jennifer Malkowski and Treaandrea M. Russworm

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 G38 2017




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Geogames and geoplay: game-based approaches to the analysis of geo-information / Ola Ahlqvist, Christoph Schlieder, editors

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.G465 2018




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Location-based gaming: play in public space.

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Designing immersive video games using 3DUI technologies: improving the gamer's user experience / Arun K. Kulshreshth, Joseph J. LaViola Jr

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Developing games on the Raspberry Pi: app programming with Lua and LÖVE / Seth Kenlon

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Let's Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game: With TypeScript, Socket. IO, and Phaser.

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Serious games and edutainment applications. Minhua Ma, Andreas Oikonomou, editors

Hayden Library - GV1469.15 S475 2017




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Super power, spoony bards, and silverware: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Dominic Arsenault

Hayden Library - GV1469.32.A76 2017




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Computer games: 7th Workshop, CGW 2018, held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers / Tristan Cazenave, Abdallah Saffidine, Nathan Sturtevant

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