The number of full-time library workers is down 20% from the end of 2008, when there were more than 1, 000 positions, as Harvard centralizes functions such as preservation instead of handling them separately at each library.
The Twitter archive might be its biggest and most challenging effort, but it's not the first time the Library of Congress has sought to document the digital world.
"It remains a library, for the first time a reference library available to everyone, " said Ms Taverne.
Local reports said the sign was posted by a student working part-time in the library.
And you could spend little time in the library, or a great deal...
She worked in the Oklahoma City library at the time of the bombing.
Imagine we wanted to continue with this glorious new e-book technology but at the same time wanted to preserve the library and the bookshop?
After spending a lot of time falling asleep at the library while facing the philosophy books, I determined that the concept of destiny is a construct that allows man a gentle release from facing the terror of his existence, and that a Hyundai full of twenties would pretty much offer the same benefits.
And speaking of trending topics, the extinction of Reader signifies the mainstream rejection of RSS as a hands-on tool for organizing a living library of real-time information flow.
He had no mechanical ability, but his wife, Edith, whom he met at Brandeis, recalls that when they went to the college library Walt would spend time scanning architecture magazines.
When the Catholic Habsburgs defeated the Protestant Palatine Elector Frederick V in 1620, they reduced Heidelberg Castle to ruins and carried off the contents of the library as spoils of war - by this time totalling over 3, 500 manuscripts and 13, 000 printed works - to the Vatican Library in Rome where they remain to this day.
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In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
But the 56-kbps hookup should satisfy first-time surfers charmed by access to the vast library of the Web and by letters that arrive in a matter of minutes instead of days.
In 1924, it was put on display in the Library of Congress, for the first time ever.
Juniper Books' collection-development service attracts people who want a library but haven't had the time or inclination to amass a collection of books.
At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage.
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The overall interface of ThisLife is elegant, laying thousands of images out in a browse-friendly library that is organized left to right by time.
Memories of the dispute are evoked at a new exhibition at Maerdy Library, featuring photographs and newspaper reports from the time.
The software consists of authoring templates, element inspectors, a time axis, a user interface inspector, an extensive javascript library, publishing and validation tools and a content delivery server.
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Mark Purcell, the National Trust's libraries curator, said the book, which bears the signs of having been chained when it was in the abbey library, was a very rare survivor of its time.
We were far ahead of the market when we made our Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs available online on www.naxos.com (www.hnh.com at the time) in 1996 and when we launched our Naxos Music Library in 2002.
The YouTube phenom would be comprehensible if the site enabled a surfer to get quickly to a library of the ten cleverest TV ads of all time, say, or the five funniest home videos of the year.
The group attended an event at Levenshulme Library on Friday afternoon but refused to leave at closing time.
In contrast: the 12-volume paperback edition of Dance to the Music of Time presented by its author, Anthony Powell, to an Oxford library.
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Bird says she only has time to blog four to five hours a night, given her full-time job as children's librarian at the New York Public Library.
Also, staff members at the county library branch on campus, where Quick worked part-time for about a year, "had fond things to say of him, " Levy said.
However, this impulse can become destructive: if you spend a lot of time alphabetizing your spices or setting up eighty categories for your home library, consider simplifying your approach.
According to the Library of Congress, there were indeed women lawyers at the time.
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