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Archive: March 2011 (8 Posts)

She Works Hard for the Money

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Women’s Bureau was organized in 1920 as an agency within the Department of Labor to represent the needs of working women.  As part of its mission, it published many books and pamphlets about women’s issues and the working conditions of women.  Since March is Women’s History Month, I thought this would be a good …

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Pic of the Week: The book2net Scanner

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

We welcomed this new addition to the Science and Business Reading Room last week. Researchers can now digitally scan material from our general collections and save the file to their USB flash drive (aka jump drive, thumb drive, and memory stick).  Our Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room also has a book2net scanner. You can …

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Celebrate Einstein’s Birthday with Pi

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

The month of March brings us a multitude of celebrations, events, and observances such as  Daylight Saving Time, the Ides of March, St. Patrick’s Day, Vernal Equinox, and Women’s History Month. Also this year (2011) in March we celebrate Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Purim. We should add two more things to celebrate …

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Pic of the Week: Architectural Drawing

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Today’s Pic of the Week is a colorful drawing of the proposed interior of one of our reading rooms by our building’s architects, Pierson & Wilson. This drawing epitomizes the amount of detail, labor, and materials that went into the construction of the Adams Building- from the green formica wall paneling (Formica Insulation Co., Cincinnati, …