Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.

Please join us for our April topical webinar:

Caught in the Web? Online Tools for Business Research

With so many options available, identifying the best ways to meet your research needs online can be a challenge. Please join our business librarians for an overview of freely available tools for business research, for beginning and intermediate-level users. Topics discussed will include: types of business information, effective use of online search engines, the importance of the deep web, identifying reliable sources of business information, and more. By the end of this program participants will be able to successfully search a research topic online, navigate selected Internet sources, and discover resources and services offered through the Library of Congress Business Reference Section.

Date: Wednesday, April 3
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm EDT
Registration: Please register via Eventbrite

How to Attend:

Web discussions are held in real time via webinar software, which allows participants from around the country and the world to join us. Registration is required. Confirmation and log on instructions will be sent via email. Please read the Library of Congress Comment and Posting Policy.

Technical requirements: Participants must have access to an Internet-connected computer or device with speakers or headphones. There is also a telephone option for listening to audio.

ADA: Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov. Registration for the program is also required.

Questions? Ask A Librarian.

While North America and Europe account for the bulk of all coronavirus cases globally, half of new cases reported in India have come from Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu alone

Replying to a letter from NHAI, the ministry said the NHAI in letters dated April 11 and 14 has highlighted reasons for resuming the collection of user fee on national highways, saying that the Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed a lot of activities with effect from April 20, including commercial and private establishments and construction activities.

Besides construction activity, the home ministry has allowed commercial and private establishments to resume operations. Toll collection falls under this category. Interstate and intra-state movement of all trucks and other goods or carrier vehicles has also been allowed.

Online Resource

The value of IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) transactions in April fell to about Rs 1.21 trillion in April, from about Rs 2.02 trillion in March

International Mineral Processing Congress (10th : 1973 : London, England)

Retail investors continued to enter markets via systematic investment plans

Vågnes, Øyvind, 1972-

Smardon, Richard C., author

Wells, April. author

Microsoft is one of the leaders in the cloud computing segment segment, besides Alphabet (Google) and Amazon, making the stock attractive

Debt categories continued to see redemptions. Credit risk funds saw a bulk of the outflows at Rs 19,238 crore, registering the worst month for the category in 13 months

Aversion to debt products has contributed to renewed interest in the category

Australia. Parliamentary Delegation to the Republic of Korea and Japan

Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2006

The decline in hiring is led by industries like hotel/restaurant/travel/airlines (-91%), auto/ancillary (-82%), retail (-77%) and accounting/finance (-70%). The job market across cities registered a double-digit dip in hiring. The decline was led by metros wherein Delhi declined by 70% followed by Chennai (-62%), Kolkata (-60%) and Mumbai (-60%).

Applications open next Wednesday, April 15 for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year through a competitive selection process. Kluge Fellowships are offered for a period of four to eleven months.

Since the inception of the Kluge Center, dozens of Kluge Fellows have gone on to distinguished academic careers; many have made lasting contributions as public intellectuals. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program. The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to contemporary challenges.

You will be able to apply here. And in the meantime check the fellowship requirements and eligibility information here.

The application deadline is currently set for July 15, but we will be revisiting this deadline as the COVID-19 situation develops. Please email scholarly@loc.gov if you are currently applying or interested in applying for this fellowship and are having trouble meeting the deadline. Kluge staff will be in touch with you.

Online Resource

The Library of Congress Preservation Directorate is excited to present a Topics in Preservation Series (TOPS) for Preservation Week 2020! From April 27-May 1, we are hosting webinars every day at 11am (EST). The five, hour-long webinars will feature preservation related projects conducted at the Library of Congress. Register now for any, or all, of the following webinars at http://LOCPreservation.eventbrite.com or at the links below. For more information and resources related to preservation at the Library of Congress, visit https://www.loc.gov/preservation/

Keeping it Cool – Designing the Library’s New Gutenberg Bible Display Case

Monday, April 27th, 11am – 12pm Register here

The Library of Congress’ Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Even though its three volumes are displayed on a rotating basis, the concerns about the adverse effects of long-term display required the Library’s’ conservation staff to create a purpose designed display case that would mitigate these adverse effects. The speakers will talk about the design process, present various features of the new case, and share with the audience some lessons learned now that the case is fully functioning for a little over a year.

Presented by Elmer Eusman, Chief, Conservation Division and Nancy Lev-Alexander, Head, Collection Stabilization Section

Acquiring and Developing an Offsite High Density Collections Storage Facility

Tuesday, April 28th, 11am – 12pm Register here

In addition to operating state-of-the art preservation quality storage facilities at Ft. Meade, the Library operates a rental property which meets its needs for interim storage.  This webinar discusses the Library’s experience in acquiring and developing this facility.  Cabin Branch (located in Landover, MD) shows a way to control costs without compromising on collections care.  The webinar will explain how the Library of Congress designed an interim storage warehouse with collections safety foremost in mind, while keeping cost under control by working with the developer to focus on the features most critical to safeguarding our collections.

Presented by Steve Herman, Chief, Collections Management Division; Rohn Roache, Assistant Chief, Collections Management Division; Nancy Lev-Alexander, Head, Collection Stabilization Section

Assessing the Condition of the United States National Collection

Wednesday, April 29th, 11am – 12pm Register here

A national research initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation “Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Collection” is undertaking the task to objectively assess the condition of books held in collecting institutions of the United States by performing an in-depth scientific analysis on a representative sample.

The research focuses on analyzing the same 500 volumes from five different research libraries in five different climatic zones through the time period 1840-1940. Research to date has shown some extremely interesting trends. This presentation will focus on the analytical techniques used in the program and show what this means to the preservation of print collections throughout the United States.

Presented by Fenella France, Chief, Preservation Research and Testing Division

Environment, Housing & Building Materials Testing to Protect our Collections

Thursday, April 30th, 11am – 12pm Register here

Challenges to preserving the national collection come from both inherent risks in the collections themselves and from materials in the immediate environment. The Library’s quality assurance program is focused on analyzing all materials that come into contact with collections or are part of the surrounding environment. The quality assurance (QA) program involves testing of materials used for housing, storage, and in conservation treatments, as well as evaluation, definition, and dissemination of standards for the use of these materials.

 This presentation will give specific examples of QA testing, new developments in quantification and identification of volatile organic compounds, fast and accurate test methodologies, examples of collection inherent material challenges, and assessment of off-gassing from potential building and housing materials to determine safety for special collections.

Presented by Dr. Eric Monroe, Supervisory Physical Scientist

Would You Like to Save Your Game?

Friday, May 1st, 11am – 12pm Register here

Libraries, archives and museums are facing an ever increasing amount of interactive media in their collections, including software applications, time based artworks and video games. These materials provide unique challenges in regards to acquisition, description and preservation, and many institutions are working to develop new approaches to ensuring the long term preservation of and access to born digital cultural artifacts. The Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) holds over 5,000 videogames amassed through copyright deposit and private donation. This collection contains not only a wide array of formats from 5.25” floppy disks to modern console cartridges, but also packaging, documentation, and adjacent materials such as magazines. The Preservation Reformatting Division and NAVCC work together to describe, reformat, and preserve these complex digital objects and preserve this important part of culture. This webinar will highlight different aspects of the preservation workflow.

Presented by Amanda May, Digital Conservation Specialist; David Gibson, Processing Technician; Laura Davis, Project Specialist

Click here for more information about the webinars.

The rise in currency in circulatiom is perplexing when economic activity has nosedived. Generally, CIC should rise in tandem with growth in economic activities, as people need cash to transact

During March-April 2020, PSBs sanctioned loans worth Rs 5.66 lakh cr for more than 41.81 lakh accounts

The borrowers represented the micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs), retail, agriculture and corporate sectors, which was indicative of an economic revival, said finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s office in a tweet on Thursday.

Brokers urge exchange and Sebi to work out an amicable price, as over 11,000 lots of open interest in the April contract were standing and couldn't be carried forward or squared off yesterday

MCX said that it had settled the contract according to the formula in the contract, which has been followed for the last 15 years

Physical sales were very limited due to the lockdown and sovereign gold bonds were one of the few avenues available to invest in the precios metal

A disruption in supply chain means that the arrival of commodities across the nation's main mandis remained a cause of concern

In value terms, April imports dropped to $2.84 million from to $3.97 billion a year ago

Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (28th : 2006 : Nashville, Tenn.)

This would mean that nearly all the job growth in the 11 years since the Great Recession had vanished in a single month

Economists had forecast that exports would shrink by 11% while imports would contract by 10%.

The Labor Department's closely watched monthly employment report on Friday also showed the unemployment rate surging to 14.7% last month, shattering the post-World War Two record of 10.8%

As of May 5, more than 7.5 million Canadians had applied for some form of federal employment aid, according to government data.

In normal times, the combined number of cars produced by Mexico and Brazil every month is half a million

The circular also addresses the confusion that there cannot be a change in option by the employee during the year, coming as a relief for employers

A huge asteroid is set to safely pass earth earth on April 29, 2020 and though the asteroid will not hit the earth excitement is building among both professional and amateur astronomers to catch a glimpse of this asteroid.

Online Resource

Online Resource

Rotch Library - HT169.57.L75 C36 2009

Rotch Library - DS485.A895 S65 2015

Rotch Library - D1056.2.M87 M873 2019

Rotch Library - DS486.D3 G87 2018