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Folklife News & Events: 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: Las Tesoros de San Antonio

Please Join us for our next Homegrown Concert:

2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: Las Tesoros de San Antonio: Tejano Singers from San Antonio, TX

Beatriz "La Paloma del Norte" Llamas
Blanquita "Blanca Rosa" Rodríguez

Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor
Thomas Jefferson Building
The Library of Congress

A conversation with two NEA fellows, accompanied by music from Mariachi Esperanza: Henry Gomez (Director), virhuela, Moises Perez, trumpet, Jose Luis Vaca, violin, and Rafael Aguirre, guitarron

Las Tesoros de San Antonio are a group of elder women performers who teamed up to preserve Mexican and bicultural musical expressions through their singing and storytelling. Janet “Perla Tapatia” Cortez, Beatriz “La Paloma del Norte” Llamas, Blanquita “Blanca Rosa” Rodríguez, and Rita “La Calandria” Vidaurri each had impressive singing careers that soared both locally and internationally from the 1940s to the1960s before tapering off in later years. Through the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio, these women reemerged and teamed up as the group Las Tesoros in the 2000s. Although Janet “Perla Tapatia” Cortez and Rita “La Calandria” Vidaurri passed away in recent years, Llamas and Rodríguez continue to perform and maintain the legacy of the group.

All four women grew up in the West Side of San Antonio, Texas. Each singer, with her personal style and grace, forms part of this unique ensemble that represents the important sound of the Mexico/Texas border. They were all inspired by and connected to many other important Tejana singers, including the great Lydia Mendoza (1982 NEA National Heritage Fellow) and the internationally renowned Eva Garza.

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

More information is at this link!




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Folklife News & Events: Botkin Event on African American Dolls and Puppets February 18

African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community
Various speakers and artists, moderated by Camilla Bryce-Laporte

February 18, 2020, 11:30am-2:00pm
119 First Floor
Thomas Jefferson Building

African American artisans utilize ancient skills and innovative technologies to create dolls and puppets that are both whimsical and starkly serious. Their creations — incorporating clay, textiles, wood, glass, and found objects — embrace the somber reality of African American experiences and optimism for a boundless future. Working alone and in communities these artisans create dolls and puppets that articulate Black beauty, strength, style, spirituality, and truth. Their works, embodying older traditions and innovative vocabularies for storytelling, are designed to amuse, educate, and heal. Dolls of each of 8 makers will be displayed on tables from 11:30-12:00 pm and 1:30 pm-2:00 pm.

Folklorist Camila Bryce-Laporte will present six makers as they discuss their work and the stories behind that work. This will be followed with a question and answer session from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.

This program may deal with sensitive subjects and is aimed at adults rather than children.

Some of the dolls will be for sale through the auspices of the Library of Congress sales shop.

Click here for more information.




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ACS Energy Letters
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[ASAP] Detecting the Onset of Lithium Plating and Monitoring Fast Charging Performance with Voltage Relaxation

ACS Energy Letters
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Nondestructive testing to identify concrete bridge deck deterioration / Nenad Gucunski ... [et al.]

Barker Library - TA440.N68 2013




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A fracture approach for FRP-concrete structures 2012: held at the ACI 2012 Spring Convention ACI SP 286, Dallas, Texas, USA, 18-22 March 2012 / editors: Maria Lopez, Christian Carloni

Barker Library - TA444.F73 2012




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Numerical modeling of concrete cracking / edited by Günter Hofstetter, Günther Meschke

Barker Library - TA440.N86 2011




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The economics, performance, and sustainability of internally cured concrete: held at the ACI Fall 2011 [i.e. 2012] Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 21-25 October 2011 [i.e. 2012] / editors, Anton K. Schindler, Jiri G. Grygar, W. Jason Weiss

Barker Library - TA440.E358 2012




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Resistance of concrete to chloride ingress: testing and modelling / Tang Luping, Lars-Olof Nilsson, and P.A. Muhammed Basheer

Barker Library - TA445.T36 2011




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Bio-aggregate-based building materials: applications to hemp concretes / edited by Sofiane Amziane, Laurent Arnaud

Barker Library - TA441.B56 2013




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Concrete: microstructure, properties, and materials.

Barker Library - TA439.M364 2014




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Reinforced concrete design / Abi O. Aghayere, P. Eng., Drexel University, George F. Limbrunner, PE, Hudson Valley Community College (emeritus)

Barker Library - TA444.L44 2014




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Advances in green binder systems, 2012: held at the ACI Spring 2012 Convention, Dallas, Texas, USA, 18-22, March 2012 / editors: Narayanan Neithalath, James Hicks

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Progress in polymers in concrete: selected, peer reviewed papers from the 14th International Congress on Polymers in Concrete (ICPIC 2013), April 17-20, 2013, Shanghai, China / edited by Ru Wang and Zhenghong Yang

Barker Library - TA443.P58 I57 2013




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Structures Congress 2013: bridging your passion with your profession: proceedings of the 2013 Structures Congress: May 2-4, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineer

Barker Library - TA440.S87 2013




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Fiber reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: at the Fall 2012 ACI Convention and the Fall 2013 ACI Convention: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21-25 October 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 10-24 October 2013.

Barker Library - TA444.F53 2015




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Modeling of FRP strengthening techniques in concrete infrastructure: held at the ACI Fall 2011 Convention: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21-25 October 2011.

Barker Library - TA443.P58 M63 2015




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Self-sensing concrete in smart structures / Baoguo Han, professor, School of Civil Engineering Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China, Xun Yu, associate professor, Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. USA, Jinp

Barker Library - TA440.H26 2014




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Thermal stresses and temperature control of mass concrete / Zhu Bofang, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, and Chinese Academy of Engineering

Barker Library - TA440.Z485 2014




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James K. Wight: a tribute from his students and colleagues: held at the ACI Fall convention, Washington, DC, USA, 26-30 October 2014 / editors: Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos, Mary Beth D. Hueste

Barker Library - TA439.J36 2016




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Eco-efficient and sustainable concrete incorporating recycled post-consumer and industrial byproducts: held at the ACI Fall 2013 Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 20-24 October 2013 / Editor: Moncef L. Nehdi

Barker Library - TA441.E286 2013




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Reduction of crack width with fiber: held at the ACI Fall 2016 Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 23-24 October 2016 / editors, Corina-Maria Aldea, Mahmut Ekenel

Barker Library - TA444.R43 2016




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10th ACI/RILEM International Conference on Cementitious Materials and Alternative Binders for Sustainable Concrete (ICCM 2017): Montreal, Canada 2-4 October 2017 / editor, Arezki Tagnit-Hamou

Barker Library - TA438.I58 2017




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Sulfate attack on concrete: a holistic perspective: held at the ACI Fall 2016 Convention: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: USA, 23-24 October 2016 / editors, Mohamed T. Bassuoni, R. Doug Hooten, Thanos Drimalas

Barker Library - TA440.S85 2017




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Composites with inorganic matrix for repair of concrete and masonry structures: held at the ACI Spring 2017 Convention, Detroit, Michigan, USA, 26-30 March 2017 / editors, Gianmarco de Felice, Lesley H. Sneed, Antonio Nanni

Barker Library - TA439.A57 2017




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History of concrete: a very old and modern material / Per Jahren, Tongbo Sui

Hayden Library - TA439.J34 2017




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Development of ultra-high performance concrete against blasts: from materials to structures / Chengqing Wu, Jun Li, Yu Su

Barker Library - TA439.W8 2018




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Stem cells: biology and engineering / Phuc Can Pham, editor

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The Origin of a New Progenitor Stem Cell Group in Human Development: An Immunohistochemical-, Light- and Electronmicroscopical Analysis / Hubert Wartenberg, Andreas Miething, Kjeld Møllgård

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Biometrics under Biomedical Considerations Amine Nait-Ali, editor

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Evolution and selection of quantitative traits / Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona, Michael Lynch, Arizona State University

Hayden Library - QH452.7.W35 2019




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Integrative structural biology with hybrid methods / editors, Haruki Nakamura, Gerard Kleywegt, Stephen K. Burley and John L. Markley

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The Lysenko controversy as a global phenomenon: genetics and agriculture in the Soviet Union and beyond / William deJong-Lambert, Nikolai Krementsov, editors

Hayden Library - QH429.2.L97 L975 2017




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Genome editing and engineering: from TALENs, ZFNs and CRISPRs to molecular surgery / edited by Krishnarao Appasani, with a foreword by George M. Church

Hayden Library - QH440.G46 2018