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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! (May 15)

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have you made America’s favorite cookie recently? How about trying out this 1940 recipe from the Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)? Chop your own chocolate and read more about it! 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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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 75 Years Ago: “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND,” The Wilmington Morning Star, June 07, 1944

Across the world on June 7, 1944, newspapers rushed to press with the first word on the Western Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in France. For days before, front pages in the homefront news were filled with word of Allied battles on all fronts with hints of an imminent invasion of the French coast. Finally on June 7, news arrived… “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND” declared the Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, DE). Follow the headlines from issue to issue and read more about it! (And then follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!)




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: PERFORMING BLACK WOMANHOOD - HISPANIC DIVISION EVENT

When: March 1-2, 2019
Where:
Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor

PERFORMING BLACK WOMANHOOD: A COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE ARTS

Friday, March 1
[Pop-up Display] -- Pop-up display highlighting the contributions of women of color in the arts across the Black Atlantic.

Saturday, March 2 -- 10:00-11:00 a.m.
[Research Orientation, Hispanic Reading Room] -- A research orientation focusing on collections about women in the arts from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Learn how to find materials in different formats acrosss the Library's reading rooms.

Saturday, March 2, 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
[Panel: La vem a baiana]
 -- Adjoa Oseo, University of Liverpool (Dark Beauty, Bright Ambition: Navigating Black Stardom in the Jazz Age NY/LON), Dr. Camara Dia Holloway (Independent Scholar, Finding Ady: Recovering the Story of a Black Surrealist Muse, and Sala Elise Patterson, Independent Scholar.

Contact: tguz@loc.gov

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Division and the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.

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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: "The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik" -- 3/06 @ 6 PM

Forrest Gander and Patricio Ferrari will read their translations of Alejandra Pizarnik's French poems found in The Galloping Hour (New Directions, 2018).

Never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime, these poems draw from personal life experiences and they echo readings of Pizarnik's beloved/accursed French authors--Charles Baudelaire, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, and Antonin Artaud. Anna Deeny Morales will follow with a reading of her translations of Pizarnik's Diana's Tree, forthcoming this year. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Russian Jewish parents, Pizarnik is considered one of Latin America's most powerful and intense lyric poets of the 20th century. A discussion will follow the reading.

Date & time: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor.
Contact: cgom@loc.gov

(Copies of The Galloping Hour will be sold).

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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: Tomorrow!--Reading and Conversation "The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik"

Join us tomorrow Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. for our reading and conversation: "The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik." The event will be held in the Hispanic Reading Room, located on the 2nd floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.

About the event:

Forrest Gander and Patricio Ferrari will read their translations of Alejandra Pizarnik's French poems found in The Galloping Hour (New Directions, 2018). Never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime, these French poems draw from personal life experiences and they echo readings of Pizarnik’s beloved/accursed French authors — Charles Baudelaire, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, and Antonin Artaud. Anna Deeny Morales will follow with a reading of her translations of Pizarnik's Diana's Tree, forthcoming this year. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Russian Jewish parents, Pizarnik is considered one of Latin America's most powerful and intense lyric poets of 20th century. A discussion will follow the reading. 

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Division and the European Division of the Library of Congress. Presented in collaboration with the Alan Cheuse International Writing Center and George Mason University.

Click here for more information.

 




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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: "Soy Cubana": Documentary Screening and Discussion

The documentary Soy Cubana charts the daily lives of four middle-aged women from Santiago de Cuba and their efforts to draw on a broad repertoire of musical genres in creating their own a capella style in an era of studio production and hi-tech sounds. Dr. Joseph Scarpaci, Director of the Center for the Study of Cuban Culture and the Economy, is the co-producer, creator, and translator/interpreter of the documentary. He will provide a short introduction before the screening and a Q&A will follow.

Date and Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2019--4:00 p.m.
Location:
Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Hanke Room (conference room) / Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor

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

Hayden Library - GE45.M37 L57 2019




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Water and wastewater engineering: design principles and practice / Mackenzie L. Davis

Barker Library - TD345.D36 2020




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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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Assessing wastewater management in India M. Dinesh Kumar, Cecilia Tortajada

Online Resource




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After geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration / Holly Jean Buck

Dewey Library - TD171.9.B83 2019




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Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology / Sonia Contera

Dewey Library - QH324.25.C66 2019




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Advancing environmental education practice / Marianne Krasny

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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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Climate change from the streets: how conflict and collaboration strengthen the environmental justice movement / Michael Méndez

Dewey Library - GE235.C25 M45 2020




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Treatment marshes for runoff and polishing / Robert H. Kadlec

Barker Library - TD756.5.K333 2020




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Waste management in the palm oil industry: plantation and milling processes / Phaik Eong Poh, Ta Yeong Wu, Weng Hoong Lam, Wai Ching Poon, Chean Shen Lim

Online Resource




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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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Water technology: an introduction for environmental scientists and engineers / Nick Gray

Online Resource




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Technical proceedings of the 2007 CleanTech conference and trade show

Online Resource