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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Library of Congress"”.
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
Basic components of nineteenth century American nationalism influenced the creation of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and …
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Comparing Library of Congress subject headings to keyword searches involving LGBT topics: a pilot study
… difficult task, though an admirable one. The aim of this study is to provide a sample of language that patrons use to search for these topics. This sample can then be used to update Library of Congress Subject Headings, or to aid in reference interviews when suggesting keywords. This study used …
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Pedagogy and Primary Sources: Outcomes of the Library of Congress' Professional Development Program, Teaching with Primary Sources at Loyola
<p>Until recently, few K-12 teachers outside of social studies have integrated primary sources in classroom instruction. Integrating primary sources in educational practice does require an uncommon pedagogical understanding. Addressing this K-12 educator need is the Library of Congress. Recently, …
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Coincidence of user vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings: Experiments to improve subject access in academic library online catalogs
… needed to determine which retrieval processes in library online catalogs will increase the match success rate between user subject vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings. Random samples of user subject terms from Northwestern University Library's NOTIS/LUIS online catalog were …
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Consistency in choice and form of main entry, 1982 and 1989: A comparison of Library of Congress monograph cataloging with that of the British Library and the national libraries of Australia and Canada
… in the data appeared to be: the operation of an NLC/LC agreement on the use of one another's personal name headings under certain circumstances (1989 Canadian sample); a greater tendency by NLC to elaborate personal name headings (both Canadian samples); an NLA policy artificially …
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Automatic detection of research interest using topic modeling
We demonstrated the possibility of inferring the research interest of an MIT faculty member given the title of only a few research papers written by him or her, using a topic model learned from a corpus of research paper text not necessarily related to any faculty members of MIT, and a list of …
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A survey of American songs of peace from the colonial era to the present
… trace the evolution and historical development of American anti-war and peace songs. Researching the study has been an adventure into an unknown aspect of American history. No published account of a similar or related study was discovered. The Library of Congress has no catalogue classification …
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Adaptive Reuse and Renovation: A Learning Center, Huntley Meadows Park And The Huntley Villa
In doing research for the documentation of the Huntley Meadows Plantation for public record at the Library of Congress and assessing a possible use for this site for the Friends of Huntley, i saw a humble little piece of Virginian history decaying and being swept away by sprawling development. …
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Listening to the Lomax archive: the sonic rhetorics of American vernacular music in the 1930s
This dissertation brings to rhetoric a study of vernacular music that amplifies what is known about rhythmic practice in the rhetorical tradition. Responding to emergent conversations at the intersection of rhetorical and sound studies, this work engages with questions about sound and music’s …
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A Plan for Managing the Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library
… Henry Rare Book Collection, housed at the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian Institution, comprises the two scientists’ private libraries and was donated to the Smithsonian Libraries by Bell’s family in 1970s.</p> <p>The prominence of both Bell and Henry in the 19th century history of science and …
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No Sleep 'til Minsky's: A One-Man Tribute to Burlesque and Vaudeville.
… process began with research into the forms of vaudeville and burlesque, including films of period acts, study of autobiographies and biographies of burlesque performers, and study of historical scripts performed in the time period and stored at the Library of Congress.</p><p>The format of …
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Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works
<p>Much of Leonard Bernstein’s piano music is incorporated in his orchestral and theatrical works. The comparison and understanding of how the piano works relate to the orchestral manifestations validates the independence of the piano works, provides new insights into Bernstein’s compositional …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
… the cultural and political significance of a number of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society impacted …
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An Evaluation of Structured Navigation for Subject Searching in Online Catalogues
… and improving subject searching in online library catalogues is the focus of this study. Against the backdrop of current research and developments in online catalogues an analysis of the problems and prospects for subject access in the expanding online catalogue is presented. Developments …
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An Experiential Approach to Architecture: Design of an Architecture School and Student Housing
… on one's very existence." - An architecture of the Seven Senses: Juhani Pallasma As I sat down thinking about this quote images of the courtyard of the Salk institute, the central reading area of the Library of Congress, Tadao Ando's Church on Water and light, the step wells of Adalaj in …
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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History
… History is a field abundantly sown, with lots of room for growth. This essay digs through seminal and contemporary works of feminist design history to learn how to contribute to the field most thoughtfully. I find that future scholarship must meet four criteria in order to effectively meet the …
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Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’s Suffrage Protests in Washington, D.C., 1913-1920
<p>Since the founding of the United States, the task of determining who has the right to political participation has been difficult. As a result, many groups, including women, had to take dramatic steps to ensure their right to suffrage and access to public space. Beginning in 1913 with the first …
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Disciplinary discourse: explicating rhetorical and sociolinguistic networks in the archive and library
… explicates the disciplinary rhetoric of the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and its subsequent impact on the field of writing studies and the teaching of writing. Specifically, this inquiry includes four key aspects: theorizing the field of LIS as a metadiscipline that …
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
The music of Haiti draws upon many sources: Haitian folk traditions, traditional Western music, and the musics of Africa. Likewise, scholarly writing about Haitian music comes from an array of disciplines including ethnomusicology, musicology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Generally, the …
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Carta de amor: o documento de arquivo e os códigos sociais na segunda metade do século XIX e início do XX
… sobre os arquivos pessoais sob a custódia da Library of Congress (EUA), do National Archives (UK), dos Archives Nationales (FR) e do Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (PT). Desse modo, buscamos identificar a relação entre as cartas estudadas e as normas sociais vigentes por meio da análise de …
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