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Archive: 2019 (46 Posts)

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Inspired by the National Parks

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

On Tuesday, January 7, and Wednesday, January 8, 2020 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. the Science and Business Reading Room will highlight our winter reading room display, "Inspired by the National Parks: Park Vistas, Plants, Animals and Fiber Art Quilts." For two days only, the reading room will host sixty fabric art quilts depicting scenes from our National Parks and some of their plant and animal inhabitants.

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Silent Sky: A Case Study in Researching the Pesticide Industry

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The sedge is wither’d from the lake,  And no birds sing — KEATS A recent Cornell Chronicle article reported that nearly 30 percent of birds in the North America have vanished since 1970.  Simultaneously, the population of raptors …

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The Cost of Independence: Highlights from the Early American Paper Money Collection

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Today’s guest post is by Anastasia “Tasha” Binkowski. Tasha is a Librarian-in-Residence working in the Rare Book & Special Collections and Manuscript Divisions. The Early American Paper Money Collection, newly rehoused in Rare Book and Special Collections at the Library of Congress, probably isn’t like any money you’ve ever seen before. These bills are roughly …

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Researching Old Companies? Come to Our Class on November 30

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Library offers Saturday orientations/classes and sometimes Business Reference takes their turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, we are teaching So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. We have given this class before and because there was interest, we are doing it again on November 30. While the …

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The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates: Lecture with NASA’s Nicholeen Viall November 7

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. NASA Observatories examining the atmosphere of the Sun are revealing extraordinary detail in the solar corona. Material from this mysteriously super-hot outer layer expands outwards to become the solar wind, accelerating beyond the speed of sound and bathing …

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Covent Garden’s Market

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Covent Garden Market was, and is, a beehive of activity. It sits near the Royal Opera House, St. Paul’s church, and the Theater Royal (on Drury Lane) and is only a short walk from Waterloo Bridge. Today it houses a number of shops and restaurants and is one of those places that everyone going to …

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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 …