Ruth Bailey Earl and Cathay Williams at the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, MS

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Originally published on Medium at https://medium.com/@librariesval/ruth-bailey-earl-and-cathay-williams-at-the-african-american-military-history-museum-in-hattiesburg-ffa36378e1d9 on May 22, 2016.  Ruth Bailey Earl and Cathay Williams at the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, MS @HburgAAMHM https://t.co/0vFyDNb4Zr — Valerie Hawkins (@librariesval) July 27, 2017 I first became aware of the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi just today, in …

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2019 19th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. ET

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19th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, August 31, 2019 8:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. ET http://www.loc.gov/bookfest Saturday, August 31, 8:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. ET Read the National Book Festival Blog for latest details and news. Come to the 19th Library of Congress National Book Festival, Saturday, August 31, at the …

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Library Ebooks Streaming and GLAM Toolshop

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The Library Ebooks Streaming List grew out of my wanting to have a Twitter List of the various electronic and online products out there for libraries — which I noticed are advertised not so much by what they can do, but by the various forms of content that they make …

Twitter Lists

Library Careers

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First, see the So You Want to Be a Librarian? LibGuide by Lee Richardson and Barbara Rochen Renner on the UNC-Chapel Hill website. For how the page came to be, check out this session by Richardson and Renner for the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Virtual Conference (2019), So You …

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2018 18th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, September 1, 2018 9 a.m.–7:30 p.m. ET

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18th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, September 1, 2018 9 a.m.–7:30 p.m. ET http://www.loc.gov/bookfest Saturday, Sept. 1, 9 a.m.–7:30 p.m. ET Read the National Book Festival Blog for latest details and news. National Book Festival Mobile App from the Library of Congress National Book Festival Get the app …

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17th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, September 2, 2017 10 a.m.–5 p.m. ET

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17th Library of Congress National Book Festival #NatBookFest Saturday, September 2, 2017 10 a.m.–5 p.m. ET More than 100 Authors and Presenters http://www.loc.gov/bookfest Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. ET National Book Festival. The Main Stage of the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival will be livestreamed throughout the …

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Annual Events and Bookstores and Reading

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The Annual Events List is described as being a “List of annual conventions and conferences, especially libraries and tech”. And so of course there’s all sorts of events listed. The list itself has been a list on the move, now being hosted on its third Twitter handle! Never could decide …

Twitter Lists

Crowdfunding and The Struggle Continues

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The Crowdfunding List is one of my more recent Twitter Lists, whose intent, initially, was to list the Twitter accounts of the various online crowdfunding websites and apps, which grew out of the Online Fundraising Tools page I created for the American Library Association Professional Tips Wiki of the ALA …

Twitter Lists

Studs Terkel Radio Archive to launch FROM Windy City Times

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The Studs Terkel Radio Archive ( STRA )—consisting of more than 5,600 programs in various genres created at Terkel’s hometown fine arts radio station WFMT in Chicago between 1952 and 1997—will become available to the general public on what would have been Terkel’s 106th birthday: Wed., May 16. The STRA …

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Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

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A kind of online archive of videos and films I’ve collected on Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress of the Library of Congress. Tweets by LibnOfCongress   It’s a Wonderful Life (7/9) Movie CLIP – Mary The Old Maid (1946) HD Dr. Carla Hayden: “Of all the titles I’ve had …

African Americans in Libraries and Librarianship