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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Join the National Digital Newspaper Program in 2019! Applications due Jan. 15, 2019

from on Twitter: Be part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a digital resource of newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. Applications due Jan 15:




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate International Women's Day With Us!

Celebrate International Women's Day today with us and explore how change-making women in American history appeared in the contemporary news using the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection. Our most recent post in Headlines and Heroes highlights fifteen amazing American women, including Clara Barton, Ida B. Wells, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, of course, investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Use the linked Recommended Topic guides to learn more about them and make your own discoveries. Read more about them and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate 15 Million Pages with Us! Find Out More and Join our Twitter #ChronAmParty Today (May 21)!

Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: READING AND CONVERSATION WITH ANA LUÍSA AMARAL

Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral will participate in a conversation and reading from her new book of poems What’s in a name? (New Directions, 2019) translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Amaral is one of Portugal’s most exciting poets whose work has been described as “small hypnotic miracles […] reminiscent of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson”. This event will include a display of special editions of authors that have shaped Amaral’s literary work and scholarship, like Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Sponsored by the Hispanic Division in collaboration with Instituto Camões and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. 

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-conversation-with-ana-luisa-amaral-tickets-58858781199

Date and time: Monday, April 8, 2019 / Book display (4:00-5:00 p.m.) / Reading and Conversation (5:00-6:00 p.m.)
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building (2nd floor), Library of Congress.

Copies of 
What’s in a Name will be sold at the program.

Click here for more information.




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: Join us tomorrow -- Reading and Conversation with Portuguese Poet Ana Luisa Amaral

Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral will participate in a conversation and reading from her new book of poems What’s in a name? (New Directions, 2019) translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Amaral is one of Portugal’s most exciting poets whose work has been described as “small hypnotic miracles […] reminiscent of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson”. This event will include a display of special editions of authors that have shaped Amaral’s literary work and scholarship, like Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Sponsored by the Hispanic Division in collaboration with Instituto Camões and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. 

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-conversation-with-ana-luisa-amaral-tickets-58858781199

Click here for more information.




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: CORRECTION: Next Monday!: Reading and Conversation with Portuguese Poet Ana Luisa Amaral

Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral will participate in a conversation and reading from her new book of poems What’s in a name? (New Directions, 2019) translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Amaral is one of Portugal’s most exciting poets whose work has been described as “small hypnotic miracles […] reminiscent of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson”. This event will include a display of special editions of authors that have shaped Amaral’s literary work and scholarship, like Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Sponsored by the Hispanic Division in collaboration with Instituto Camões and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. 

Date and time: Monday, April 8, 2019 / Book display (4:00-5:00 p.m.) / Reading and Conversation (5:00-6:00 p.m.)
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building (2nd floor), Library of Congress.

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-conversation-with-ana-luisa-amaral-tickets-58858781199

Click here for more information.




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: Art Showcase and Workshop With Chicano Artist Mario Torero -- May 3 @ 4:30 p.m.

Leading Chicano Movement artist/muralist Mario Torero will be talking about some of his artworks collected by the Library of Congress. A hands-on drawing workshop will follow.

Mario Torero is an important figure in the San Diego California Barrio Logan group of artists active in the Chicano civil rights movement. From 1988 to 1993 he was the Commissioner of the City of San Diego Commission of Arts and Culture, and taught at several San Diego colleges and schools. He is a co-founder of several local cultural organizations, including the Centro Cultural de la Raza, and the Chicano Park Murals Outdoor Museum. Torero's work has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Germany, and Japan. Some of his major murals are in San Diego, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Prague. He has writen articles for the San Diego Union, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and USA Today.

Date & Time: Friday, May 3, 2019 / 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor 

Library of Congress / 10 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540.

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic and Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Please request ADA accommodations at least five days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: TOMORROW -- Art Showcase and Workshop with Chicano Artist Mario Torero

Leading Chicano Movement artist/muralist Mario Torero will be talking about some of his artworks collected by the Library of Congress. A hands-on drawing workshop will follow.

Mario Torero is an important figure in the San Diego California Barrio Logan group of artists active in the Chicano civil rights movement. From 1988 to 1993 he was the Commissioner of the City of San Diego Commission of Arts and Culture, and taught at several San Diego colleges and schools. He is a co-founder of several local cultural organizations, including the Centro Cultural de la Raza, and the Chicano Park Murals Outdoor Museum. Torero's work has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Germany, and Japan. Some of his major murals are in San Diego, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Prague. He has writen articles for the San Diego Union, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and USA Today.

Date/Time: Friday, May 3, 2019 / 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor 

Library of Congress / 10 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540.

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic and Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Please request ADA accommodations at least five days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Click here for more information.

 




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Digital Preservation Training Events 7/8 - 7/12

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07/03/2013 10:52 AM EDT

Next week there will be Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice at the University of Virginia. Bay Area Video Coalition's Preservation Access Program (http://www.bavc.org/preservation-access-program) and Minnesota Digital Library (http://www.mndigital.org/reflections/phase10.php) are both accepting applications for preservation and digitization.

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Digital Preservation Training Events 7/15 - 7/19

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07/12/2013 11:04 AM EDT

Next week will be Digital Preservation Advanced Practitioner Training in Glasgow, Preserving Digital Archives: Concepts and Competencies #1421 in New York, Digital Humanities 2013 in Nebraska, and two training courses at the University of Virginia.

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Digital Preservation Training Events 7/22 - 7/26

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07/19/2013 10:05 AM EDT

Next week will be Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections in Ann Arbor, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013 in Indianapolis, and workshops on project management and legal issues for digital collections.

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Digital Preservation Training Events 7/29 - 8/2

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07/26/2013 03:43 PM EDT

Next week will be Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use, Project Management and Workflow for Digitization Projects, and the Connecting to Collections Preservation Boot Camp.
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Digital Preservation Training Events 8/18 - 8/24

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08/16/2013 09:17 AM EDT

Next week will be an event on introduction to digital imaging and on personal digital archiving. See calendar or View Share widget (bottom left corner) for event listings, and click listings for further details. These links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Library of Congress of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organization or individual. The Library of Congress bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content.




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Digital Preservation Training Events 8/26 - 8/30

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08/23/2013 09:34 AM EDT

Next week will be an event by DPOE trainer Fang Wang presenting the DPOE basic digital preservation training modules with the American Association of Law Libraries. See calendar or View Share widget (bottom left corner) for event listings, and click listings for further details. These links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Library of Congress of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organization or individual. The Library of Congress bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content.






















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Sustainability in the anthropocene: philosophical essays on renewable technologies / edited by Róisín Lally

Hayden Library - GE196.S85 2019




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Modeling and data analysis: an introduction with environmental applications / John B. Little

Hayden Library - GE45.M37 L57 2019




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Deterioration and optimal rehabilitation modelling for urban water distribution systems / by Yi Zhou

Barker Library - TD481.Z46 2018




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Innovations for urban sanitation: adapting community-led approaches / Jamie Myers [and four others]

Barker Library - TD327.M94 2018




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Environmental nanotechnology. Nandita Dasgupta, Shivendu Ranjan, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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The quest for a universal theory of life: searching for life as we don't know it / Carol E. Cleland, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dewey Library - QH325.C54 2019




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Rates of evolution: a quantitative synthesis / Philip D. Gingerich, University of Michigan

Dewey Library - QH366.2.G524 2019




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Systems thinking and WASH: tools and case studies for a sustainable water supply / edited by Kate Neely

Barker Library - TD345.S97 2019




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Sustainable agriculture reviews. Inamuddin, Abdullah M. Asiri, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Trace environmental quantitative analysis: principles, techniques, and applications / Paul R. Loconto

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Environmental nanotechnology. Nandita Dasgupta, Shivenu Ranjan, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

Online Resource




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Sustainable and economic waste management: resource recovery techniques / edited by Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, Abhilash

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Zero Waste: Management Practices for Environmental Sustainability / edited by Ashok K. Rathoure

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Recent trends in waste water treatment and water resource management Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Papita Das Saha, Maria Francesco Di, editors

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Water, sustainable development, and the nexus: response to climate change / editors, Velma I. Grover, Amani Alfarra

Barker Library - TD390.W3845 2020




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Sustainable agriculture reviews. Inamuddin, Abdullah M. Asiri, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Integrating sustainability planning and the environmental review process / Carol Lurie, Matthew Egge, VHB Inc., in association with Environmental Science Associates, Inc., American Infrastructre Development Inc., Changing Climates Consulting, Ralph Thomp

Barker Library - TD195.A36 L87 2019




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Good enough: the tolerance for mediocrity in nature and society / Daniel S. Milo

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