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Libraries and sanctuary

CILIP

Libraries and sanctuary. John Vincent has been actively tackling social exclusion in libraries and other cultural and heritage organisations through The Network (www.seapn.org.uk) and the Libraries of Sanctuary project, that evolved from the Cities of Sanctuary.

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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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Data, analysis and the library: Joining the dots at the Department for Work and Pensions

CILIP

Here he speaks to Information Professional Editor Rob Green about how librarians and library services are now a central part of that function, and how the library service is supporting the wider needs of the Department. including leading the analysis for the Pensions Commission, Chaired by Adair Turner and which reported in 2005.

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Efficient QR codes

Imperial Violet

The 2005 edition changed that to be ISO/IEC 8859-1 (i.e. If you have a bigint library to hand then it almost certainly has the functions for that, but it's a rather obnoxious (and quadratic) amount of computation and a significant dependency. But you probably need to work with a variety of decoders. Each digit takes 3?

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“Don’t Be a Dope”: Will Eisner’s World War II Posters

Unwritten Record

Cartoonist and writer Will Eisner (1917-2005) was one of the most significant pioneers and innovators within the 20th-century comic book industry. Examples of preferred credit lines are as follows: National Archives photo no. 80-G-32500. Credit National Archives (photo no. 306-NT-186000). Courtesy National Archives, photo no.

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Feature Spotlight: Notes

Archive-It

Library of Virginia’s seed setting notes for the URL [link] In the example above, Roger Christman of the Library of Virginia has used these Notes in the seed settings to indicate how the Seed URL has changed over time. Library of Virginia’s collection overview notes about Facebook issues in 2015-2016.

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Feature Spotlight: Notes

Archive-It

Library of Virginia’s seed setting notes for the URL [link] In the example above, Roger Christman of the Library of Virginia has used these Notes in the seed settings to indicate how the Seed URL has changed over time. Library of Virginia’s collection overview notes about Facebook issues in 2015-2016.