Brief History of Library Automation: 1930-1996 An automated library is one where a computer system is used to manage one or several of the library’s key functions such as acquisitions‚ serials control‚ cataloging‚ circulation and the public access catalog. When exploring the history of library automation‚ it is possible to return to past centuries when visionaries well before the computer age created devices to assist with their book lending systems. Even as far back as 1588‚ the invention of
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to wait nearly 100 years to win a right you strongly believed in. Well women in the 1800s-1900s could imagine‚ they were denied access to vote even after they protested and fought for their right. Women demanded to be seen as full citizens of the United States. Even though women had to wait quite some time to get these rights‚ they still changed the course of history. I know it changed the course of history because it’s 2016 and women can vote. Sojourner Truth strongly believed that women had the
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Summary Living in early 20th century Greenwich Village are two young women artists‚ Sue and Johnsy (familiar for Joanna). They met in May‚ six months previously‚ and decided to share a studio apartment. Stalking their artist colony in November is "Mr. Pneumonia." The story begins as Johnsy‚ near death from pneumonia‚ lies in bed waiting for the last leaf of an ivy vine on the brick wall she spies through her window to fall. "I’m tired of thinking‚" says Johnsy. "I want to turn loose my hold
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Summary of Article The article examined was conducted by Ulmer‚ Edinger‚ & Calhoun (2011)‚ to explore the feasibility of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and sleep interventions for veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD and insomnia. The experimental design‚ randomly assigned veterans to a treatment or control group (Ulmer et al.‚ 2011). Ulmer et al. (2011) hypothesized CBT for insomnia and imaginal rehearsal therapy (IRT) for nightmares would improve sleep quality significantly. The Data Analysis
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Euthanasia – Summary General information Euthanasia is the act of consciously ending a person’s life because of terrible suffering that can be caused by incurable cancer. The word itself comes from Greek and means “good death” which describes its procedure pretty well. Assisted suicide means to assist or encourage another person who has already decided to commit suicide. Seen from the legal position‚ both of these acts are illegal under English law. Depending on the circumstances‚ the maximum penalty
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Held captive In the story “Held Captive” there is a girl named Kate‚ who is stranded on an airplane within a force field. Kate is a tall‚ skinny‚ 17 year old girl who feels like her purpose is to rescue everyone from this force field and the evil that occupies the city. With the help of her friend‚ Jack she will overcome her fears and weaknesses. The story “Held Captive” is held in the city outside the airport and force field. Dark grey skies‚ broken down buildings and rubble in the streets surround
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|[pic] |School of Creative Industries Art Design |[pic] | | |Media & Performing Arts | | |BTEC Extended |Assignment Title: Script 1 | |Diploma
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actual history. He does this by placing several of his stories in "alternate" histories‚ meaning that many details to the time period are accurate‚ but some event has been changed. This is seen in Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Watchmen is set in an alternate history during the presidency of Richard Nixon. The story includes other altered historical events such as the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen alters history such
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Nowhere placed loneliness After watching the film‚ I only feel loneliness. As Giuseppe Tornatore’s first English-language film‚ “The Legend of 1900” was renowned in the end of the twentieth century. It tells a story of a pianist’s legendary life. On the luxury cruise Virginian‚ An orphan is abandoned in the first class. He is named after the year he was found‚ 1900. Nineteen Hundred becomes a prodigy with special piano talent‚ as he slowly grows up. He performs piano on the cruise‚ and everyone is deeply
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undervalued technologies have become hugely important throughout their existence in places like the Third World and have become overshadowed by novelty inventions like the V-2 rocket or the Concorde jet. In The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 written by David Edgerton‚ a well-known and leading British historian that has challenged conventional analyses of technology for over twenty years‚ offers an alternative way of understanding technology‚ technological change‚ and the role of
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