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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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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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Three Things Primary Care Stakeholders (Mostly) Agree On

Simply put, 2019 has been a big year for primary care in the United States. Whether you follow federal or state healthcare news or simply follow investor-entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Twitter, it’s likely you’ve seen how the conversation about primary care has been elevated.




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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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Children’s Health Influenced by Parents’ Work Schedules and Child Care Transitions

A strong economy requires a dynamic workforce that can adapt to the labor market’s demands. This often means workers will have schedules outside the traditional 9 to 5.




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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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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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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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The Complex Relationship Between Changing Work Schedules, Child Care, and Child Well-Being

On this episode of On the Evidence, we talk about a report that looks at the complicated relationships among nonstandard or changing work schedules, the availability of child care for those schedules, and child well-being. Our guests are Angela Rachidi and Russell Sykes, who coauthored the report.




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Are Schools Creating Engaged Citizens? How Would We Know?

In the 21st century, the civic purpose of public education is often overlooked in debates that tend to focus on education’s economic effects. But the civic purpose is arguably more important than it has ever been.




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Employee Ownership Is at the Heart of Mathematica

Mathematica is proud to be 100 percent employee owned. Employee ownership is a critical component of who we are, and it shapes how we work together as colleagues.




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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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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: The Pivot Point

Time will tell what improvements artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive algorithms can bring to healthcare, and at what cost, but it is past time to tackle the bigger ethical considerations that loom large over the future of the industry.




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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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Learning in the Midst of a Pandemic: Four Key Education Takeaways

We are living in unprecedented times. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, more than 130 countries have closed schools entirely, impacting 80 percent of the world’s student population.




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Can Algorithms Be Fair, Transparent, and Protect Children?

On this episode of On the Evidence, three researchers discuss how they work with child welfare agencies in the United States to use algorithms—or, what they call predictive risk models—to inform decisions by case managers and their supervisors.




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During Challenging Times, How Can Schools Learn From Each Other?

The field of education evolves constantly and is now changing rapidly because of COVID-19. In the face of this pandemic, we continue to refine our practices.




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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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Parenting and Working During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Liah Caravalho, public affairs specialist, shares her experience working from home while parenting during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Beyond choices: the design of ethical gameplay / by Miguel Sicart

Barker Library - GV1469.34.C67 S52 2013




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Handbook of digital games / edited by Marios C. Angelides, Harry Agius

Online Resource




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Online gaming and playful organization / Harald Warmelink

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.W37 2014




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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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The game culture reader / edited by Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 G362 2013




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Children's virtual play worlds: culture, learning, and participation / edited by Anne Burke & Jackie Marsh

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 C45 2013




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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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A game design vocabulary: exploring the foundational principles behind good game design / Anna Anthropy, Naomi Clark

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 A58 2014




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The art of failure: an essay on the pain of playing video games / Jesper Juul

Barker Library - GV1469.3.J87 2013




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Introduction to game analysis / Clara Fernández-Vara

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.F46 2015




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Understanding Minecraft: essays on play, community and possibilities / edited by Nate Garrelts

Hayden Library - GV1469.35.M535 U73 2014




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Gaming in social, locative, and mobile media / Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 H58 2014




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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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Make a 2D RPG in a weekend: with RPG Maker VX Ace / Darrin Perez

Online Resource




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Game love: essays on play and affection / edited by Jessica Enevold and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 G36 2015




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Online game pioneers at work: interviews with some of the top online game pioneers of our times / Morgan Ramsay ; foreword by Richard Bartle

Online Resource




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Game play: paratextuality in contemporary board games / Paul Booth

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.B66 2015




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Online games, social narratives / Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.M344 2014




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Translation and localisation in video games: making entertainment software global / Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.B47 2015




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Video game narrative and criticism: playing the story / Tamer Thabet

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 T48 2015




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Make a 2D RPG in a weekend: with RPG Maker MV / Darrin Perez

Online Resource




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Virtual character design: for games and interactive media / Robin J.S. Sloan

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.C48 S56 2015




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War/play: video games and the militarization of society / John Martino

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 M375 2015




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Parables of the posthuman: digital realities, gaming, and the player experience / Johathan Boulter

Hayden Library - GV1469.34 .P79 B68 2015