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• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-03-08

  Educational exemptions from copyright rules should extend to digital transmissions, APTS, CPB and PBS told Library of Congress LOC March 3. In reply comments on LOC rulemaking on promoting distance learning, they asked that exemptions currently covering college courses be extended to K-12 education. Public broadcasters also reiterated...

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• 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

• Deciding the stop and frisk cases: A look inside the Supreme Court's conference

  - 1998-07-01

  I. INTRODUCTION In our system of constitutional decision-making, the Supreme Court makes law as an institution in its formal written opinions. The Court and its individual members make their official legal marks in the printed pages of the United States Reports. In June 1968, in Terry v. Ohio" and Sibron...

  Tags: arrest, conference, Johnson, Katz, Marshall, officer, Ohio, suspicion, The Library of Congress, Yale University

• Assessing the role of the NAACP in the civil rights movement. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

  - 1993-03-22

  The National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP did much to further the civil rights movement, though Martin Luther King's prominence to some extent denied the NAACP the recognition it had earned. Formed in 1909 to advocate making African Americans the social and political equals of whites, the...

  Tags: conference, Johnson, leader, Leadership, MARKETING, Mitchell, president, South, strategy, The Library of Congress, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Washington