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Friday, October 3, 2008 - 13:30
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 09:50
Melissa Renspie, Senior Communications Officer at OCLC, reports that, "our latest publication, a report on library, archive and museum collaboration by our contractor, Diane Zorich, and Program Officers Günter Waibel and Ricky Erway, "Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums," (.pdf: 334K/59pp) is now available on the RLG Programs Web site at http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2008-05.pdf.MORE »
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A Summary ViewMonday, September 29, 2008 - 05:00
Part of my work for the Jefferson Encyclopedia is to canvass the Information Files here at the library. I look for research reports and documentary references that Monticello researchers have done over the years. Many people never knew that there was information out there on a particular topic. ...MORE »
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A Summary ViewThursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:22
A patron asked us about a very unusual quotation the other day: apparently someone, sometime said that Thomas Jefferson was "...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father..."; this was supposedly a comment made by Jefferson's...MORE »
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:13
It was announced this week that the Homestead Resort in Bath County intends to restore the historic bathhouses that surround their famed mineral pools (now called the Jefferson Pools). Thomas Jefferson is just one of the thousands of Virginians,...MORE »
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 15:32
For your reading enjoyment, here are some other possible names for this blog that we either came up with ourselves or that were submitted by creative family, friends and coworkers:
- A Nickel's Worth
- From TJ to you
- Blogocello
- Commonplace Review
- "Your Tomgnosis", Jeffereuna, or TJ Ousia (from a contestant armed with a Greek dictionary)
- Blog of the Revolution
- Sage of the Blogosphere
- Monticello Rumblings
- Annalou and TJ Too
- When in the course of blogging events MORE »
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A Summary ViewMonday, September 15, 2008 - 05:00
Picking up a recent Economist magazine, an article discusses how desalination of the oceans for usable water is becoming less expensive these days. San Diego has built a large plant, as have a few Australian cities. What does this have to do with Jefferson? It is science related, thus...MORE »
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