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Archive: February 2018 (4 Posts)

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What’s for Lunch: 2018 Earth and Space Science Talks at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the ST&B Division

Posted by: Angel Vu

Lecture series coordinators Sean Bryant and Stephanie Marcus, Science, Technology and Business Division, contributed to this blog post. With March just around the corner, we are preparing to kick off our annual Earth and Space Science lecture series, now in its twelfth year.  The series is a partnership between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center …

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Endangered Business Data

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

What is endangered business data? It can probably mean a lot of things, but what comes to my mind first is this: business information and data sets that are inaccessible, nonexistent, or in danger of becoming so. For example, there could be gaps in coverage, print sets lost, microform copies decomposing or unreadable without proper …

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The Project: Mapping Business History with LC Collections

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

This is the second post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post here. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to begin tackling the many questions I posed in my first post. I read blogs (The Signal‘s excellent ”Digital Scholarship Resource …

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A “Reliable Source” for the Assurance of Adequate Accommodations

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

In June 2017 the Washington Post featured a story about The Negro Motorist Green Book published from the mid 1930’s until the late 1960‘s and used by African American travelers in the United States. I had heard about them and figured we had them, which we do (New York Public Library has digitized a number …