Dewey Library - PQ2668.O77 S4813 2019

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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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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

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

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Join the Business Reference Section of the Science, Technology & Business Division for a focused research orientation to resources for researching old companies. Whether you are trying to find out more about your great grandfather's small business, the value of that old stock certificate in your attic, or just curious about a company from the past, learn how to find materials both at the Library of Congress and in your local public library and historical society to help answer your questions. The session covers both print and electronic sources. All researchers are welcome.

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

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

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

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In this session, Manuscript Reference Librarian Edith Sandler will demonstrate how to search for and access personal papers and organizational records documenting the history of the civil rights movement in the 20th century. Time will be included at the end of the session for Q&A about research strategies or steps on specific research projects. All researchers are welcome.

Please note that the maximum class size is 30 researchers unless otherwise indicated.

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.

Patrons are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes prior to the orientation. Seating is available on a first-come basis. Registration does not guarantee entry after the orientation start time.

For more information, please visit: https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/satorient/

Date: Saturday, January 25, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

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

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

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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

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

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Join Manuscript Reference Librarian Lara Szypszak for a focused orientation to resources located in the Manuscript Reading Room. This session will share the letters of love from members of congress to their spouses, writers to their paramours, artists to their muses, and more. Celebrate Valentine’s Day (better late than never) with notes of romance found in the Manuscript Division’s collections, and also learn how to find materials for your research projects utilizing 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. See the following link for Maps and Floor Plans in the Jefferson Building: https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/thomas-jefferson-building/first-floor/

Date: Saturday, February 15, 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST

Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Building, Room 139B

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The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

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

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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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Notice: Library buildings are closed to the public until April 1. Public events are canceled until May 11.

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

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

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.

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.

In order to improve patients’ overall health and well-being, we need better information about their social determinants of health – the social, behavioral, and environmental factors – which influence the health and well-being of individuals and communities.

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.

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.

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.

By using an enterprise risk management approach, state Medicaid agencies can meet new federal program integrity requirements, serve more clients, improve the quality of care, and contain costs.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode of On the Evidence, University of Rhode Island's Annette Bourbonniere, Webility Corporation's Jennifer Christian, and Mathematica's Yonatan Ben-Shalom discuss research on workers who miss work because of an injury or illness and how to help them remain in the labor force.

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.

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.

Principals and assistant principals play a key role in improving student outcomes, but assessing leaders’ effectiveness is hard and finding the right measure takes time. School leaders influence students in complex and indirect ways, making it difficult to measure these effects.

For this episode of On the Evidence, we spoke with the principal investigators for the project: Dave Jones, an associate director in the Health Unit at Mathematica, and Dave Frisvold, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congress passed the largest economic stimulus package in our nation’s history, one of several ways Congress is helping America weather the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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

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.

While many of us try to cope with the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and process the trauma, anxiety, and global loss, recent research might help guide the way forward.

The guest for this episode of On the Evidence is Ralanda Nelson, the new associate director for diversity at Mathematica.

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.

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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