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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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• Happy Anniversary, Ailey!

  - 2008-06-01

  Ailey troupe celebrates 50 years. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater marked its golden anniversary on March 30, and the company is going all-out in honor of the occasion: Its 18-month celebration will include international and U.S. tours, an exhibition at the Library of Congress and the launch of a host...

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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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• Moving image cataloging; how to create and how to use a moving image catalog

  - 2008-02-01

  Moving image cataloging; how to create and how to use a moving image catalog. Yee, Martha M. Libraries Unlimited 2007 273 pages $45.00 Paperback Third millennium cataloging Z695 Yee (cataloguing supervisor, UCLA Film & Television Archive) teaches students of library science...

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• Mystery Writers of America to Honor Kate's Mystery Books & the Library of Congress, Center for the Book at 2008 Edgar(R) Awards

  - 2007-11-26

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSTo: NATIONAL EDITORS

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• Library of Congress joins UNESCO for online global library

  - 2007-10-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — The world's biggest library, the US Library of Congress, has teamed up with UNESCO and libraries from around the globe in an ambitious project to digitize priceless cultural material and make it available on the Internet. "When The World Digital Library is launched, and we're looking...

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• PBS affiliates, local schools do their part

  - 2007-10-03

  A number of PBS affiliates across the USA, inspired by the release of Ken Burns' The War, are producing mini-documentaries about their own local war stories and encouraging high school and college students to collect oral histories. The materials they gather are being sent to the...

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• Video: Ad Council and Library of Congress Launch New Lifelong Literacy Campaign

  - 2007-10-02

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSTo: NATIONAL EDITORS

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• Library of Congress's National Book Festival Attracts More Than 120,000 Book Lovers to the National Mall

  - 2007-09-29

  To: ENTERTAINMENT EDITORSTo: ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS

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• ATS Corporation Awarded Library of Congress Contract Valued up to $14 Million

  - 2007-09-24

  MCLEAN, Va. -- ATS Corporation ("ATSC" or the "Company") (OTCBB:ATCT.OB), today announced that it has been awarded the Global Legal Information Network ("GLIN") contract in support of the Law Library of Congress ("LLOC"). The contract award has a five year period of performance including the base year and four option...

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