Jewish life in oriental countries : a list of books and manuscripts exhibited at the New York public library March 30th to December 31st, 1926

Prepared and arranged by Joshua Bloch

Espacios del agua en el territorio urbanizado. Los Angeles, California

Los Ángeles, en California, muestra de forma excepcional la hidrología de las grandes metrópolis en zonas de paisaje árido, basadas en grandes obras de ingeniería civil que concentran en la ciudad el agua de ámbitos geográficos muy extensos mediante aportes elevados de energía, al tiempo que canalizan la evacuación como residuo de los recursos locales. La desertización creciente derivada de este modelo sugiere la necesidad de alternativas de baja energía, basadas en la operatividad de la forma y de los sistemas vivos, para devolver al espacio y al territorio competencias de depuración, almacenaje y control de inundaciones. La construcción del suelo como infraestructura extensiva de captación, filtrado y reutilización modifica el funcionamiento hidrológico de la ciudad, reduciendo deslizamiento y escorrentía para conservar el valioso patrimonio de lluvia local y convierte la fábrica urbana en un gran sistema polivalente de gestión hidráulica. La recuperación de las cuencas locales de menor escala devuelve al agua y sus espacios su papel principal como articuladores de la forma urbana, marcando la localización de áreas húmedas y verdes. La naturaleza urbana se aleja del referente decorativo de pradera inglesa a favor de una concepción más utilitarista, entendida como una máquina orgánica integrada que resuelve la depuración, contribuye a la construcción de suelo y a la climatización a nivel metropolitano.

Public Library, Orihuela, Alicante (1992)

In Collaboration with Pedro L. Valle López

Public Library, Madrid (1990)

Proyecto de la biblioteca pública de Fuencarral, Madrid

Reseña. Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970

Reseña bibliográfica de Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970

Energy and Lighting Performance of Buildings in the Neighbourhood Ciudad de los Angeles, Before and After Refurbishing.

The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness is funding the SHERIF Research Project, which falls under the INNPACTO pr ogram. This project aims to increase the rate of the existing building refurbishment fro m the energy efficiency point of view by designing a facade system that must be an economica l, flexible and integrated solution 1 . Under this project has been performing several task s regarding the constructive characterization and energy evaluation of the therm al behaviour of facades on existing buildings . In order to perform the latter task, in which this article will focus, has been developing a survey of various buildings in the nei ghbourhood Ciudad de los Angeles, which has as main objective the comparison between the ac tual energy and light behaviour of different buildings, prior and posterior to any ref urbishment works have been undertaken. The evaluation of the actual performance of buildin gs before and after being refurbished is aimed to determine the impact of the work developed as well as learn from the work performed for future interventions.

Urbanization patterns and their impacts on social restructuring of urban space in Chilean mid-cities: The case of Los Angeles, Central Chile

El artículo analiza las relaciones entre los cambios de uso en el territorio rural de la región del Biobío y sus efectos en el crecimiento urbano y demográfico de una ciudad de tamaño medio. En forma específica se estudia el desarrollo de la industria forestal y sus efectos sobre el proceso urbano de Los Angeles.

Public library consumer health information pilot project: results of a National Library of Medicine evaluation

In October 1998, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched a pilot project to learn about the role of public libraries in providing health information to the public and to generate information that would assist NLM and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) in learning how best to work with public libraries in the future. Three regional medical libraries (RMLs), eight resource libraries, and forty-one public libraries or library systems from nine states and the District of Columbia were selected for participation. The pilot project included an evaluation component that was carried out in parallel with project implementation. The evaluation ran through September 1999. The results of the evaluation indicated that participating public librarians were enthusiastic about the training and information materials provided as part of the project and that many public libraries used the materials and conducted their own outreach to local communities and groups. Most libraries applied the modest funds to purchase additional Internet-accessible computers and/or upgrade their health-reference materials. However, few of the participating public libraries had health information centers (although health information was perceived as a top-ten or top-five topic of interest to patrons). Also, the project generated only minimal usage of NLM's consumer health database, known as MEDLINEplus, from the premises of the monitored libraries (patron usage from home or office locations was not tracked). The evaluation results suggested a balanced follow-up by NLM and the NN/LM, with a few carefully selected national activities, complemented by a package of targeted activities that, as of January 2000, are being planned, developed, or implemented. The results also highlighted the importance of building an evaluation component into projects like this one from the outset, to assure that objectives were met and that evaluative information was available on a timely basis, as was the case here.

Art influences on Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Los Angeles's influence on Johnny Truant

"...is a novel that combines literature and art to create a unique postmodern object. It was published just over a decade ago, and in that time numerous scholars and students have written papers and articles on it. Within these articles, the themes are usually about deconstruction, the house as a digital object, the house's lack of homeliness, or characters who claim authorial presence. Danielewski distance himself from that role. The house and its impossible labyrinth are the central feature of the book. A house should provide stability, but this house shifts its rooms and walls at random. A house should protect its occupants, but this one kills people. This house links itself into an infinite amount of information through its use of the internet as an influence and a stylistic device, but it has nothing but an absence in its very foundation, an empty labyrinth with an unseen monster."

Digital Curation Program of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a digital library that strives to serve the public through digital collections accumulated from a wide variety of partners. Our chosen topic for the DPLA exhibit project is Perspectives on the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War remains a controversial topic of national interest, making it a topic of depth and of many perspectives. Our goals with this exhibit were to gather different perspectives of the war through personal stories, the media, presidential administrations of the war, military personnel, and the general public, including famous figures. We strove to demonstrate the variety of perspectives on the Vietnam War through a variation of digital objects and content that will be engaging for users: both black and white and color photos, videos, and audio files. Furthermore, we wanted to ensure that our digital materials are of high quality, properly documented, and easy to search and find thus all of our objects are from DPLA and are from usable original sources. This poster will describe our processes for organizational, object selection, building our exhibit, attainment of our goals, and detailed steps of our overall operation. The poster will also include details about the minor issues and bumps that occurred while reaching our final product as well as the team members’ perspectives on the project as a whole including: problems, words to for the wise, and triumphs.

How Does the Denver Public Library System Respond to its Customer's Requests for Global Information?

The interaction between globally available information and public library users is a changing one. Global information is readily available yet provider and user struggle to find efficiencies of time and resources. As a primary resource of global information the Denver Public Library (DPL) is approaching this challenge by providing changing technology to a changing user and by providing a customized approach to immigrant populations. DPL provides global information to library users through collections, programs and Internet. Internet and collections global information usage cannot be directly measured due to privacy restrictions. Only 12.5% of general user programs focus on global information. Four percent of budget serves the immigrant users. This is greater than national averages.

By-laws of the Peoria public library. Revised December, 1904.

Mode of access: Internet.

Dedicatory exercises. The Frank S. Stevens public library building.

Mode of access: Internet.