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Call No: AE 1.102:D 63/4
Title: Making archives accessible for people with disabilities / Frank H. Serene.

Author: Serene, Frank H.
Imprint: [Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, 2008?]

Type: Book 16-4 wk
Location: Docs Shelves FL4 A-W

Call No: AE 2.106/3:3/100-102/
Title: Code of federal regulations. 3, The President.

Author: United States. President.
Imprint: Washington : Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration : For [...]

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The library recently purchased Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition Online).  From the publisher’s description:
Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. It has not been revised, however, since the Bicentennial Edition, which was published in 1975 and provided data through 1970. The period [...]

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Two students working in the larger “General Reference” unit of the library have been diligent at typing up lists. Student N. and C. have typed up the a good chunk of the Federal Security agency books and all of the the Federal Trade Commission books. I’ve discarded 177 of the FTC documents. That’s equivalent to [...]

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Volunteer Student M. finished discard list of Health Education and Welfare of 100 volumes. That list was posted today. She began working on a new list from Federal Trade Commission. A big, full chart.
I sent a query out to Admin asking about staging area for these discard books. No word on carts or empty shelving [...]

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Today Student Volunteer K. finished the excel map of the documents shelves on the main floor of the library. Each three-feet documents shelf is represented by an excel cell that has been labeled with the beginning of the SuDoc class stem. With this map complete I can now begin to compare the space of documents [...]

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Volunteer Student M. continued to type discard lists for the WTIC Commerce publications from the 1950s through 1960s. This series is crazy because it has maybe 50-80 separate titles bound into a book about 2-inches thick. It’s a lot of work to discard these books.
I took an easier route. I began typing a list [...]

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