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Library of Congress Recognizes Work of Jewish Women’s Archive

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Library of Congress Recognizes Work of Jewish Women’s Archive
BROOKLINE, Mass., March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Gail Reimer, Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA), announced today that the Library of Congress has recognized JWA by including its website, jwa.org, in its historic collection of Internet materials.

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From Dewey to the Library of Congress

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The Dewey system was developed in 1876 by Melvil Dewey and allows for unlimited expansion possibilities and cataloging generally keeps different subjects together in physical locations. This system allows smaller libraries to use more general categories, while keeping the whole system of rule, in all libraries.

The first half of the 20th Century was dominated by the use of Dewey, but he started in the 1960s, and a change should be based on the use of the Library of Congress system, because the claim of conscience that Dewey failed in two respects. The first is that they do not deal with shared libraries with Pound at two different locations, and the second is that any new issues that have not been easy in the catalog, without major changes to the system. The subjects were chosen long ago, and many new books must fit certain categories. The themes available are not all the shares of common interest, as they did before.

The Library of Congress system develops over time and was more than one person as the Dewey system was created and at the same time. The first part of the LC system was developed in 1898. The LC system consists of 21 main groups, without the letters I, O, W, X and Y. A second letter contains is represented used to discuss the issue further and even a third letter is in the right category used to specialize. Used after the third character is a decimal point and an infinite number of categories can be used.

Another division is the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), principally in Europe, Japan, Russia will be used, and Latin America. This system has been done on the fifth edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification and was first presented in 1895 by bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. This classification has been, is that it has been used primarily for the identification of a document used to find the content and not only able to document how the CSD is primarily for.

Book catalogs were between 16 and 18 People’s Century. They were portable and inexpensive to make, but difficult to update. Book catalogs replaced card catalogs in the late 19th Century. They were popular until the 1990s. Three types of cards are generally used for each item in the library. The first type is the name of the author in the first row. The second type had the title in the top row. The third type is the subject of the article in the top row. Superior card catalogs were book catalogs more than one person could use both and new records could be easily integrated into the drawers. It was even easier to use in 1901 when the Library of Congress began selling copies of its catalog cards to other libraries. There were 5738 subscribers mapping in 1935.

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Blacks4barack Selected to be Part of U.s. Library of Congress Historic Collection !

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Blacks4Barack selected for the OFU. S. CongressHistorical Library Collection! Cleveland, Blacks4Barack site Ohioan Greg Jones has been selected to be presented as part of the Library of Congress U. S. historical collection “Presidential Campaign 2008. Blacks4Barack available worldwide through the website LOC digital collection. Next will be sent to a part of the application Blacks4Barack.

“The United States Library of Congress has selected your site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet resources on the transition of presidential elections in time of crisis to do. The library’s traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preservation and serving collection materials of historical importance Congress and the American people to promote education and science, to digital material, including websites. We ask permission to collect your site and put in the research collections Library. We also ask that we be allowed to display archived version (s) of your site has been selected. URL below: Blacks4Barack. blogspot. ComWith your consent, the Library of Congress or its agent in collecting the contents of your website at regular intervals in the time involved. The library collection available to researchers onsite at the facilities of the library. The library would also make the collection available to researchers by hosting the collection on the public access to off-site library web site. The Library hopes that you are their vision of conservation materials to access the Internet stocks, researchers around the world on it. “chosen on our site to help future generations learn more about the historic campaign of 2008 is a real honor, “said Greg Jones, director of the National Blacks4Barack a multiethnic society, net / grassroots organization Jones started in February 2007 with the mission to promote and strengthen support for Barack Obama. “I must thank all colleagues of Obama supporters nationwide who have helped us in many ways complementary,” Jones. Greg Jones to discuss also the producer and host of a radio Internet Talk Radio Obama Nothing ‘But The Truth with Greg Jones, “which is 2 hours of entertainment news and political opinions, and questions today Obama debate. The show airs live every Sunday at 8pm (EST) through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed on the website Blacks4Barack. About the U.S. Library of Congress: The Library of Congress is the oldest in the nation cultural institution of the federal government and serves as a research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, records, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The mission of the Library of ‘increase its capacity available to serve the Congress and the American people and support and a universal collection of knowledge and creativity to preserve for future generations. The Library of Congress has three buildings on Capitol Hill. The Thomas Jefferson Building (1897) is the original separate Library of Congress. (The library began in 1800 at the Capitol SU.) John Adams Building was built in 1938 and the James Madison Memorial Building was completed in 1981. THANK YOU WARRIORS! B4B