Confronting the climate challenge: U.S. policy options / Lawrence H. Goulder and Marc A.C. Hafstead
Transportation, energy use and environmental impacts / Marcio de Almeida D'Agosto
Human-Friendly Robotics 2019: 12th International Workshop / Federica Ferraguti, Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini, Marcello Bonfè, editors
Automation 2020: towards industry of the future: proceedings of Automation 2020, March 18-20, 2020, Warsaw, Poland / Roman Szewczyk, Cezary Zieliński, Małgorzata Kaliczyńska, editors
Law Library: News & Events: Uncover historical treasures at the Herencia Transcribe-a-thon on March 19!
To celebrate the launch of the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents campaign, we will be hosting an on-site transcribe-a-thon here at the Library of Congress on March 19, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET!
Register to join us in person in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building for a fun evening of transcribing with fellow volunteers. You do not need to read Spanish, Latin, or Catalan to participate in this project!
Can't make it to the event? We will have a virtual transcribe-a-thon happening ALL DAY on March 19! Register as a virtual attendee to join a worldwide community of transcribers.
Want to know more about how to host a Transcribe-a-thon so you can join in virtually? Register for our upcoming webinar on instructions and tips for hosting a successful transcription event! We’ll cover how to join in on March 19 and how to organize independently.
Law Library: News & Events: National Book Festival Presents Jeffrey Rosen and Dahlia Lithwick on RBG, March 19
On March 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the Jefferson Building, National Book Festival Presents Jeffrey Rosen in a discussion of his new book, “Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty and Law,” with Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate. Book sales and signing to follow. Co-sponsored by the Law Library of Congress.
Click this link to register for this FREE event and purchase a copy of "Conversations with RBG" (purchase of book not required for attendance).
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This event is part of the Law Library's NIGHT OF LAW at the Thomas Jefferson Building. We also invite you to join our 5:00 p.m. activity, Transcribe-a-thon for Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. Be sure to register for both events!
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Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, for violin and strings / Johann Sebastian Bach ; reconstructed and edited by Marco Serino
Marche fatale: Fassung für grosses Orchester = version for large orchestra / Helmut Lachenmann
Computational processing of the Portuguese language: 14th International Conference, PROPOR 2020, Evora, Portugal, March 2-4, 2020, Proceedings / Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira, Sandra Aluísio, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Teresa Gonçalves (ed
Atypical demonstratives: syntax, semantics and pragmatics / edited by Marco Coniglio, Andrew Murphy, Eva Schlachter and Tonjes Veenstra
Focus realization in Romance and beyond / edited by Marco García García, Melanie Uth
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII: proceedings of a conference held at The Hotel at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 11-15 November 2018 / edited by Peter J. Teuben, Marc W. Pound, Brian A. Thomas, Elizabeth M.
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVI: proceedings of a conference held at Stazione Marittima, Trieste, Italy, 16-20 October 2016 / edited by Marco Molinaro, Keith Shortridge, Fabio Pasian
Dispatches from planet 3: thirty-two (brief) tales on the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond / Marcia Bartusiak
Workers' compensation: analysis for its second century / H. Allan Hunt, Marcus Dillender
Progress in performance management: industry insights and case studies on principles, application tools, and practice / Marc Helmold and Warda Samara
The social question in the twenty-first century: a global view / edited by Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, and Marcel van der Linden
House Prices: change the city worl ; The Global Urban Competitiveness Report (2017-2018) / Pengfei Ni, Marco Kamiya, Haibo Wang, editors
A global history of runaways: workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850 / edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum
Motivating public employees / Marc Esteve, Christian Schuster
The new Arab man: emergent masculinities, technologies, and Islam in the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn
Aperiodic crystals: from modulated phases to quasicrystals / Ted Janssen, Gervais Chapuis and Marc de Boissieu
Ligated transition metal clusters in solid-state chemistry: the legacy of Marcel Sergent / Jean-François Halet, editor ; with contributions by R. Arratia-Perez [and 18 others]
Quality systems in the food industry / Marco Fiorino, Caterina Barone, Michele Barone, Marco Mason and Arpan Bhagat
Lepton flavor violation from low scale seesaw neutrinos with masses reachable at the LHC /: Xabier Marcano.
A microscopic theory of fission dynamics based on the generator coordinate method / Walid Younes, Daniel Marc Gogny, Jean-François Berger
Herencia Digital Transcribe-a-thon TOMORROW! March 19th 8AM EST-5PM PST
Anyone can participate in writing word for word transcriptions that will ultimately enrich our catalog records and make the historical content in this collection of Spanish documents more accessible.
To participate, please register via Eventbrite
About the virtual transcribe-a-thon
You can join in as an individual or organize a transcribe-a-thon event wherever you are.
- Register through Eventbrite so we can get a full count of contributing volunteers!
- Follow the day's progress via hourly updates here in History Huband shared on our twitter (@Crowd_LOC)
- We’ll share live updates on campaign activity so be sure to let us know how it’s going wherever you are! We hope you’ll share your event details and let us know what you’re finding in this rich collection.
- Let us know what you’re up to!We’re always here to answer your questions, but we’ll have some extra opportunities for you to connect with Community Managers and collection experts.
- Twitter chats: 11am and 2pm EST
- Follow the conversation for tips and tricks! Community managers and collection experts will also share more about this amazing collection and answer your questions!
- Office Hours (via WebEx!): noon and 3pm EST
- Talk directly with community managers and collection experts to share what you're finding and get answers to your questions! Join using the links below.
- Other ways to reach us:
- Tweet at us anytime!
- Send us an email at crowd@loc.gov.
- Twitter chats: 11am and 2pm EST
- Have fun! Connect to history and your fellow volunteers through transcription.