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New Business Reference Guide: The Fashion Industry
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This guide was compiled to accompany a 2012 exhibit mounted in the Business Reference Alcove of the Science and Business Reading Room of the Library of Congress to highlight resources related to the fashion and apparel industries, including books, journals, and databases available at the Library of Congress. |
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Upcoming Lecture: Author to Discuss Fashion Industry Impresario Eleanor Lambert
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Through enthusiastic and tireless promotion of American fashion designers, Eleanor Lambert elevated the American fashion industry from a rag-trade status to international respectability. She advanced the careers of numerous American designers and also created the International Best-Dressed List, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the Cody Awards and the twice-a-year Fashion Week in New York City. |
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<br>Fashion historian John A. Tiffany will discuss his book "Eleanor Lambert: Still Here" at the Library of Congress at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, in |
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the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
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New Science Reference Guide: History of Media Technology and Opera
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By 1880, listeners connected by telephones turned opera into the first electronic home entertainment, leading to the first stereo sound transmission (1881) and the first consumer headphones (by 1888). Thomas Edison indicated in his 1888 patent caveat that the purpose of movies would be the delivery of opera. Opera provided early movies with known titles, stories, stars, and music. The earliest recording to sell a million copies was an opera aria, and opera was also the first commercial digital recording. |
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<br>This guides lists a selection of books, essays, and websites on the history of media technology, with an emphasis on opera. |
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New Webcast: The Fandom of the Opera
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A lecture by Mark Schubin on how a 400-year-old art form helped create modern media technology. |
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New Science Reference Guide: Leftovers. Being Festive and Frugal
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As Fiona Beckett notes in her The Frugal Cook: Buy Cleverly, Waste Less, Eat Well (2011), "the very word 'leftover' has a dreary sound to it, conjuring up visions of drab, reheated meals, odd dun-coloured soups and tired-looking salads. But it doesn't have to be like that. With a little imagination your leftovers can not only be turned into delicious meals for you and your family, but feasts for your friends." Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past (1911), a webcast highlighting the Library's 19th- and 20th-Century culinary and household manual collections (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/foodthrift.html), shows how our ancestors economized in hard times by making good use of leftovers. It is our hope that titles, such as The Turkey Trots Once More: 200 Ways to Recycle Holiday Leftovers; the Use-it-Up Cookbook; and Leftovers Made into Gourmet Meals will make your life a little less stressful and save you a penny or two this holiday season. Enjoy |
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New Webcast: "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America"
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Marc Levinson discusses his book, "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America" at the Library of Congress |
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Upcoming Lecture: When Washington Bailed Out Mom and Pop
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Economic historian Marc Levinson will present "When Washington Bailed Out Mom & Pop" at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the Library of Congress in the Mary Pickford Theater, located on the third floor of the Madison Building at 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Library's Science, Technology and Business Division, the event is free and open to the public. |
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<br>Levinson is the author of "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America," which was published i |
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New Webcast: Big Ice Sheet Doing Big Things- Why its a Big Deal
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This loss of ice in areas of the World such as Antarctica and Greenland is causing an increasing rate of sea-level rise, making it critically important to provide accurate predictive models as a basis for policymakers and citizens to take action. The challenges to science are great, and a more detailed understanding of ice-sheet dynamics is urgently needed. In an illustrated lecture, the fourth in a series of programs in 2011 presented through a partnership between the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Library of Congress, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, scientist Robert Bindschadler presents his theories as to why this is occurring. |
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New Science Tracer Bullet: Nuclear Energy
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The use of nuclear power to generate electricity began in the late 1950s. About one-third of all electric power worldwide now comes from nuclear power plants; 20.7 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption, including electrical energy generation and transmission losses, is attributed to nuclear power. |
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<br>This guide to nuclear energy is not intended as a comprehensive bibliography, but highlights selected works about the production, distribution, and transmission of nuclear energy.
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Upcoming lecture: How Opera Created the Modern Media World
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The first demonstration of stereo-sound transmission--in 1881--came from an opera house. The first consumer headphones were also used for opera, as part of the first form of subscription electronic home entertainment. In 1910, 10 years before the first licensed commercial radio station, a transmitter in the Metropolitan Opera House broadcast operas, and one form of wireless opera broadcasting is even older, dating to the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. |
