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• Dumas Malone

  - 2005-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

  Tags: CAREER, MARKETING, president, professor, The Library of Congress, University of Virginia, Yale University

• Obituaries: Cloyd Dake Gull

  - 2003-06-01

  Cloyd Dake Gull, ASIST president in 1960, passed away in the Washington area on May 1. Born in 1915, Gull had a long and industrious career in the information profession. H was involved with federal, government and special libraries, and he participated in the development of MEDLARS. He held numerous...

  Tags: CAREER, deputy, Government, Indiana University, president, SOFTWARE, The Library of Congress

• Dumas Malone

  - 2003-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

  Tags: CAREER, MARKETING, president, professor, The Library of Congress, University of Virginia, Yale University

• Ticker tape

  - 2002-09-02

  Confidential: Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president, was the father of all of slave Sally Hemings' children, according to nationally known genealogist Helen Leary. At a Library of Congress lecture, she argued that "much of the evidence marshaled against the Hemings-Jefferson relationship has proved to be flawed by reason of...

  Tags: advertisement, CAREER, The Library of Congress, White House

• The "Experience LC" program: a personal narrative

  - 1998-10-01

  After inaugurating a new corporate solo librarian position for the past year, I felt a strong need to recharge my professional development batteries. In 1998, I attended both the Special Libraries Association SLA conference in Indianapolis, IN, and the American Library Association ALA conference in Washington, DC, and found each...

  Tags: American Library Association, CAREER, conference, librarian, photograph, PRODUCTIVITY, The Library of Congress