Finding General Electric
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Some ideas about free resources for anyone researching General Electric.
Posted in: Business
Archive: September 2019 (5 Posts)
Updated Beauty & Fashion Guides
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a second post about updates for Business Reference guides, and this post features guides for those studying the fashion industry and beauty business. I hope that both of them can help those doing research on the current state of the industry, but both also include resources for those wanting to look at the …
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides
Organic Molecules in Martian Mud: NASA Lecture with Astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode on September 12
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
On September 12, NASA Astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode presents "A Mud Matter: The Recent Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-billion-year-old Mudstones on Mars," at the Library's James Madison Building's third floor Mary Pickford Theater from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Walt Whitman’s View of Railroads: To a Locomotive in Winter
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter;" first appeared in print February 19, 1876 in the New York Daily Tribune as part of a preview of the volume Two Rivulets (1876). Published just seven years after the union of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter" considers the dynamic relationship between the railroad and nature.
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts
Peter Parley Explains the Moon to Children, Part 2
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the second post exploring Samuel Griswold Goodrich's Peter Parley books educating young and curious minds.
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Rare Books and Special Collections