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• Acker Library updates "DAWIA ANNOTATED—current law"

  - 2008-07-01

  The Defense Acquisition University's Acker Library and Knowledge Repository recently updated "DAWIA ANNOTATED." The updated version includes annotations and footnotes showing the historical development of the original Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act and amendments to the act since 1990. This current version of DAWIA is a valuable resource to the...

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• University of Maryland-led Partnership Gets $235,000 Award to Help Preserve Documents, Tales From Historic Dot-Com Era; Library of Congress Award Part of National Digital Preservation Strategy.

  - 2004-09-30

  Byline: University of Maryland, College Park Byline: University of Maryland, College Park

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• Digital preservation program launches research grants initiative; Library of Congress partners with National Science Foundation to fund advanced research into preservation of digital materials.

  - 2004-06-17

  M2 PRESSWIRE-17 June 2004-US NSF: Digital preservation program launches research grants initiative; Library of Congress partners with National Science Foundation to fund advanced research into preservation of digital materialsC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06162004 ARLINGTON, Va. -- The National Digital Information Infrastructure...

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• Library of Congress . (People & Places).(appoints James M. Gallagher)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-11-01

  The Library of Congress has announced that James M. Gallagher has been appointed director of information technology services. Most recently, Gallagher was the acting deputy assistant attorney general/deputy chief information officer for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been with the Justice Department...

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• SALLY MCCALLUM (LITA/Gaylord Award).(winner of the 2002 Library and Information Technology Association Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-06-01

  SALLY MCCALLUM - has been named winner of the 2002 Library and Information Technology Association LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology. McCallum is chief of the Network Development and MARC Standards Office NDMSO at the Library of Congress LC. McCallum has worked at...

  Tags: Information Technology Association, network, NETWORKING, Strategy, The Library of Congress

• Library of Congress needs to improve digital information handling claims NANRC - Government Activity - Brief Article

  - 2000-08-04

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-4 August 2000-Library of Congress needs to improve digital information handling claims NANRC C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com According to a committee of the US' National Academies' National Research Council NANRC, the Library of Congress needs to improve its handling of digital information. Collections of...

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• In honor of Burton W. Adkinson

  - 1995-10-01

  A featured event of the upcoming ASIS 1995 Annual Meeting in Chicago will be the presentation of a medal to longtime ASIS member Dr. Burton W. Adkinson in recognition of his service as president of the International Federation for Documentation FID from 1963-1965. All attendees at the meeting will receive...

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• A royal roundup -- King Crow by Jennifer Armstrong and illustrated by Eric Rohmann / Library of Congress Book of Presidents by Martin W. Sandler

  - 1995-03-01

  A royal roundup. You might like to take a look at Jennifer Armstrong's King Crow, with beautiful, lush and dark illustrations by Eric Rohmann (Crown, 1995, ISBN 0-517-59634-2). In this story, the wise -- but vanquished -- King Cormac has been blinded and imprisoned by his conqueror, King Bregant. Cormac...

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• 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...

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