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Tuesday, January 09, 2018
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Highlights of the Upcoming Computers in Libraries Conference
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Jane Dysart, program director of Information Today, Inc.'s Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference, posted a sneak peak of the 2018 event--to be held April 17-19 in Arlington, Va.--on her blog.
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Early Bird Rate for the NFAIS Annual Conference Ends Jan. 16
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The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) announced that Jan. 16, 2018, is the deadline for registering with the Early Bird rate for its 60th annual conference, which will be held Feb. 28-March 2 in Alexandria, Va.
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Bookstores Struggle With Demand for Trump Tell-All Fire and Fury
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Shelf Awareness reports that the "furor over Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Holt) continued on Friday and over the weekend," with attacks from the president himself as well as his supporters.
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SSRN Adds EngRN Preprint Server for Engineers
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SSRN launched the Engineering Research Network (EngRN), a new dedicated network on its platform. Gregg Gordon, SSRN's managing director, says, "EngRN will enable engineers to share early stage research--preprints, working papers and data--prior to publication."
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GPO Digitizes Last Section of the Congressional Record
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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has finished the digitization of the historical Congressional Record, which dates back to March 5, 1873. The last release of the project covers the debates and proceedings of the two chambers of Congress from 1873 to 1890.
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The Year in Congress: How to Define an 'Accomplishment'
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by George H. Pike
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It is challenging to think about the accomplishments of the 115th Congress in 2017 without also remembering overwhelming partisanship, divisiveness, and dysfunction; the battles over immigration, the Affordable Care Act, and taxes; and the continuing saga of the current presidential administration. There is no question that all of this must be factored into any consideration of Congress' work in the past year.
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