I have worked at the Library of Congress for just over 10 years and am still amazed by what I find. When I first started, the various directories, credit reference books, telephone books, and salary surveys thrilled me. Sometimes I felt that there was a book or journal on every topic. That feeling really hasn’t …
ST&B & NASA Goddard Speakers Series begins its 7th Year on April 16, 2013 with Extraterrestrial Real Estate Assessment: Measuring Habitability on Mars with the Curiosity Rover with Dr. Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist and mineralogist, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [Update- For those of you who cannot attend, our Twitter account @librarycongress will live tweet Dr. …
March 19 will mark the 5 year anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. I would not be writing this blog post if it were not for the curiosity of one of our volunteers, Richard Halada, a local high school physics teacher. Richard was retrieving a book for us in the Adams’ Building …
Today’s guest post is by ST&B’s upcoming speaker Michael Chorost who will be at the Library on March 20 to talk about How to Put Your Brain on the Internet: Lessons From a Cyborg and sign copies of his books World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet (2011) and Rebuilt : …
Business Reference gets a fair number of questions about contracting with the United States government and since that is my area I tend to keep an eye out for good sources. Most people are considering becoming contractors so they get directed to FedBizOpps. Sometimes researchers want to know who got what contract or want general …
You check your smartphone so often that it might as well be a part of your body. Why not skip the tiny screen and keyboard and put your brain directly on the Internet? On Wednesday March 20th, 2013 from 11:30-12:30 the Science, Technology, and Business division is sponsoring the lecture How to Put Your Brain on …
Today’s post is from science reference librarian Stephanie (Sam) Marcus who has written My Favorite Day for Inside Adams. On a chilly winter day or night it’s nice to curl up with a good book. So why not a good science book? If you want to be entertained, you could chuckle at the adventures of Nobel …
Today’s post is from science reference librarian Margaret Clifton. She is also the author of Loving the Stars – Telescopes from Galileo to James Webb, Saving Energy: The Fall Back Position, Stars in his Eyes and Sun Spots this Summer. “And you thought they were cute” A wide variety of literature on Antarctica has been collected over …
The Sixteenth that I am referring to is the 16th Amendment to the Constitution which is the amendment that created the Income Tax. Ratification by the requisite number of states was completed on February 3, 1913 when Delaware became the 36th state to ratify. Thereafter, another six joined including New Mexico and Wyoming which also …
You might think this post will be about the battle between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49’ers in Superbowl XLVII (2013). This post is not about the players or the teams, but about a part of the game. Plain and simple, I am writing about the turf grass (natural and synthetic) because in …