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• Library of Congress Installs Sorenson Communications Videophones Agency-Wide for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Staff

  - 2008-02-20

  SALT LAKE CITY -- Sorenson Communications[TM], the nation's leading provider of Video Relay Services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language ASL to communicate, today announced that the U.S. Library of Congress has implemented an agency-wide videophone communication system. Sorenson Communications has licensed 16 of its VP-200[R]...

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• "Editorials at a glance": cultural policy, gender, and modernity in the World War I Bureau of Cartoons.(Author abstract)(Editorial)(Video recording review)

  - 2007-03-01

  A Modern Paradox It is a simple drawing from a working-class newspaper, drawn by a prominent World War I cartoonist: a statuesque woman representing Columbia stands with her right hand resting on the shoulder of a young Red Cross nurse. The nurse, clad in...

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• Source material: sequestered from the court of history: the Kissinger transcripts.

  - 2004-12-01

  Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials. Kissinger fought...

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