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Womyn's Braille Press. Womyn's Braille Press ( WBP) was an American feminist organization run by blind women from 1980 to 1996. Their primary goal was to make feminist and lesbian literature accessible for women who are blind or print disabled. They produced tapes, braille prints, and even circulated a newsletter for twelve years.
Resource Description and Access. Resource Description and Access ( RDA) is a standard for descriptive cataloging initially released in June 2010, [1] providing instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data. Intended for use by libraries and other cultural organizations such as museums and archives, RDA is the successor to Anglo ...
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated ( Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy ), and one resigned ( Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [9]
A library bookshelf in Hong Kong classified using the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries, an adaptation of the Dewey Classification scheme. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.
Congress System. The "Congress System" was an effort to maintain peace and stability in Europe through regular Congresses of the great powers, similar to the Congress of Vienna, to address pressing issues and resolve disputes through negotiation and coordinated action. The system of regular formal Congresses was short-lived, primarily due to ...
The John Adams Building is the second oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Built in the 1930s, it is named for John Adams, the second president, who signed the law creating the Library of Congress in 1800. The building is in the Capitol Hill district of Washington D.C. next to the library's main building (now ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, [a] and national origin. [4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and ...
D – History (General) DA – History of Great Britain – History of Ireland – History of the British Isles. DAW – History of Central Europe. DB – History of Austria – Liechtenstein – Hungary – Czechoslovakia. DC – History of France – Andorra – Monaco. DD – History of Germany. DE – History of the Greco-Roman World.