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Journal of a homecoming: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal / Aimé Césaire ; translated by N. Gregson Davis ; introduction, commentary, and notes by F. Abiola Irele

Hayden Library - PQ3949.C44 C3413 2017




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History of violence / Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Lorin Stein

Hayden Library - PQ2712.O895 H5713 2018




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Vision/division: L'œuvre de Nancy Huston.

Online Resource




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A new history of French literature / edited by Denis Hollier ; with R. Howard Bloch [and 7 others]

Online Resource




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Vision/division: l'oeuvre de Nancy Huston / sous la direction de Marta Dvorák et Jane Koustas

Online Resource




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Career stories: Belle Epoque novels of professional development / Juliette M. Rogers

Online Resource




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Translating war: literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Angela Kershaw

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Checkpoint / Jean-Christophe Rubin ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ2678.U357 C4413 2017




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Tristan Corbière: oysters, nightingales and cooking pots: selected poetry and prose in translation / translated by Christopher Pilling ; edited by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe ; with an introduction by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe

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Awu's story: a novel / Justine Mintsa ; translated and with an introduction by Cheryl Toman ; foreword by Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury

Hayden Library - PQ3989.3.M535 H5713 2018




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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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Do you hear in the mountains... and other stories / Maïssa Bey ; translated by Erin Lamm

Dewey Library - PQ3989.2.B477 A2 2018




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Je découverte... Maurice Sixto / écrit par Mirline Pierre ; dessiné par Fritzgérald Muscadin ; caricaturé par Ralphaël [i.e., Raphaël] Paquin

Barker Library - PQ3949.2.S59 Z55 2019




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The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; translated by Irene Testot-Ferry

Barker Library - PQ2637.A274 P413 2018




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Return to the enchanted island / Johary Ravaloson ; translated by Allison M. Charette

Dewey Library - PQ3989.3.R38 R47 2019




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Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

Dewey Library - PQ2668.O77 S4813 2019




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Patron Services: History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust. Participatory Research Sprint.

Help us examine historic newspapers on microfilm in order to find out what Americans could have known about the Holocaust through reading their local newspapers.  Articles found during the sprint will be added to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded Project.

When: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 4-7 pm (drop-in hours)

Where: Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, James Madison Building, Room 133

Please RSVP through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/Nov2019Sprint

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

Please contact Erin Sidwell with any questions about the sprint: esid@loc.gov

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

 

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Patron Services: CORRECTION - Orientation to the Manuscript Division

Join the Manuscript Division for a focused research orientation to resources located in the Manuscript Reading Room. Learn how to find materials for your research projects and how to utilize 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.

 Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

 Location: Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ-139B

 Click here for more information and to register.

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

 

 

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Patron Services: Research Orientations to the Library of Congress

The Researcher & Reference Services Division at the Library of Congress is offering research orientation sessions on the following dates in room 139B of the Jefferson Building.  You may register for a single session by selecting a date and completing the online form .  The sessions, taught by librarians, will cover search strategies for finding items in a variety of formats at the world’s largest library.   Individuals requiring accommodations for any of these events are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

General Orientation Sessions
Mondays, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.:

Jan.13th

Feb.10th

March 9th

March 16th

April 13th

April 20th

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.:

Feb.6th

March 5th

April 2nd

Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Jan.11th

Feb.1st

March 14th

April 11th

Genealogy Orientation Sessions

Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Feb.12th

March 11th

April 8th

May 13th

Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Feb.8th
March 7th
April 4th

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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

Click here for more information and to register.

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or 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: 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

Click here for more information and to register.

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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Multiple Measures Are for Principal Evaluation, Too: Using Teacher Surveys to Better Understand Principal Performance

Evaluating the performance of school principals can be challenging. As we noted in previous posts, principals’ roles are complex and multi-faceted.




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How Learning Collaboratives Can Help Address Today’s Pressing Policy Challenges

Researchers and policymakers across a number of fields have long understood the power of peer-to-peer learning.




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To Address the Social Determinants of Health, Start with the Data

Social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—have gained increasing interest among policymakers and practitioners as they struggle to improve the value and quality of U.S. health care.




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Siloed, Incomplete, and Neglected: The Trouble with State Administrative Data and What to Do About It

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Mathematica’s Beth Weigensberg talks about an article she co-authored describing findings from a 2013 needs assessment on the challenges state agencies faced in using their data to inform their programs.




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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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Exclusionary Discipline Is “Free”: How Federal Policymakers Can Promote Positive Approaches to School Discipline

The topic of exclusionary discipline is not only of professional interest to me—it’s personal. Helping my son navigate the middle grades was taxing. He attended a school that suspended him for defending himself when a classmate broke his iPad and then punched him during recess to instigate a fight.




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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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Partnering with States to Help Navigate Medicaid Solutions

Paul Messino offers insights on challenges states face as they implement health payment and delivery system reforms and the ways that Mathematica applies methods expertise, deep policy knowledge, and understanding of state contexts to help navigate to better outcomes.




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Going Back to School with Mathematica’s Former Teachers

Right now, more than 3.6 million public school teachers are preparing their classrooms, meeting with parents, reviewing lesson plans, and getting to know rooms full of students whose lives they will touch in countless ways.




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Supporting Learning in the Classroom: Back-to-School with REL Mid-Atlantic

Educators hold the keys to unlocking a brighter future for their students, whether engaging with parents, creating a supportive environment that values equity and inclusion, or improving instruction.




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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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The Journey to Becoming Data Driven

Too many conversations about the promise of using data to drive decisions lead with new steps, new requirements, new resource needs, and new expectations that are simply out of reach for too many. It doesn’t have to be that way.




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Helping Connect Youth to Jobs, Apprenticeships, and Internships with More Timely and Detailed Data

Each day, millions of people between the ages of 16 and 24 don’t attend school or head to work. Instead, these young people—often called opportunity youth—face greater risk of social exclusion, poverty, and falling behind without the skills to improve their lives.




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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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10 Ways to Extend the Reach of Your Work

We can’t expect policymakers, program administrators, and practitioners to stumble upon new evidence (let alone slog their way through multiple field-specific academic journals). As an evidence community, we have to do more to show them the way to research-based insights.




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Using Leading and Lagging Indicators for Medicaid and CHIP Quality Improvement

Medicaid and CHIP quality improvement often focuses on the big picture, but to be confident that new efforts will lead to improvement, we also need quality measures that can be captured earlier.




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Using Rapid-Cycle Evaluation to Inform Policy Decision Making

This video depicts how a program improvement approach—known as Rapid-Cycle Evaluation—can provide administrators with evidence about what works to improve services.




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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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Shift to At-Home and Online Learning Underscores the Importance of Culturally Responsive Education Practices in Schools

For this episode of On the Evidence, a principal and an education researcher share insights from research and the field on implementing culturally responsive practices.




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Echoes of the Past, Lessons for Today

In echoes of the past lie lessons for today: our country’s confrontation with AIDS can inform our battle against COVID-19.




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COVID-19 Revealed Longstanding Problems in Our Social Safety Net. It’s Time to Address Them.

The unfortunate truth about crises is that they tend to reveal longstanding problems that we chose to ignore—because we could, or at least thought we could.




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Supporting Families to Foster Children’s Safety and Well-Being

For National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Mathematica researcher Debra Strong and Elaine Stedt, the director of the Office on Child Abuse Neglect, share how the Regional Partnership Grant program is improving the safety, permanency, and well-being of children affected by adults’ substance abuse.




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Rajan Nanda: The man who fast-tracked Escorts' tractor business

It is interesting that Nanda tried his hands over multiple businesses but in his lifetime realised the need to focus on the core, which is, tractor beside construction and railway equipment




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The culture of digital fighting games: performance and practice / Todd Harper

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.V56 H37 2014




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Early modernity and video games / edited by Tobias Winnerling and Florian Kerschbaumer

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.E27 2014




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Portable play in everyday life: the Nintendo DS / Samuel Tobin

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 T63 2013