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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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Connecting town and gown through the library

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. One of RMA’s own contributed to the selection. million years ago).

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306-NT: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times, ca. 1900–ca. 1950

Unwritten Record

In December 1940, the Paris Bureau of the New York Times was seized by the Nazis and its Library of New Photos was transported to Berlin. The photographs that make up 306-NT were originally part of the New York Times photo morgue for the Paris Bureau of the newspaper. It operated until its closing in 1950.

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CILIP?s third Chinese accreditation at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

CILIP

The department is the third CILIP accredited learning provider in mainland China following Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou and Nanjing Agricultural University. It was founded in 1960, renamed from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 2004, was designated as one of the national key institutions of higher education in 1978. Gemma Wood.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. There's a lot to argue with about the methodology and the assumptions.

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CILIP?s first Thai accreditation at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

CILIP

CILIP is delighted to announce that two courses at Chulalongkorn (Chula) University have been awarded CILIP accreditation, recognising that they provide solid preparation for professional practice and a suitable base for anybody entering the library, information and knowledge management professions. About CILIP.