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University of Phoenix–Washington DC Campus: Private for-profit Special-focus institution: 203 1976 [29] HLC: University of the District of Columbia: Public Master's university: 3,577 1851 [30] ACEN, ABFSE, AND, ASHA, JRCERT, MSCHE: University of the Potomac–Washington DC Campus: Private for-profit Special-focus institution: 534 1989 [31] MSCHE
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the 400,000 square foot (37,000 m 2) steel, brick, and glass structure, an example of modern architecture, in Washington, D.C. This library was Mies's only public library, and his only building constructed in Washington, D.C. [citation needed] The building was completed in 1972 at a cost of $18 million.
University of Arizona Global's undergraduate population is 43 percent white, 31 percent black, 16 percent Hispanic, 4 percent 2 or more races, and 2 percent Asian. Sixty-eight percent were eligible for Pell Grants. [74] According to SEC reports approximately 71 percent of the student body is female, and the average age is 35. [75]
The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (Library of Congress, 2000) Cole, John Young. Jefferson's legacy: a brief history of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1993) Cole, John Young. "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815–2005." Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385–398. in Project MUSE
It is a national-level program based at the Library of Congress that seeks to promote free access to the documentary heritage of the United States. It does this by providing cataloging for archives and historical societies around the country that do not have access to national online databases. [1]
[1] [2] DCLA's first president was Ainsworth Spofford who was also Librarian of Congress; most of DCLA's initial monthly meetings were held in the Library of Congress. [3] [4] It changed its name to District of Columbia Library Association in March 1901 and became a chapter of the American Library Association on June 28, 1922. [2] [5]
The National Archives administers 15 Presidential Libraries and Museums, a museum in Washington, D.C., that displays the Charters of Freedom, and 15 research facilities across the country. [11] The agency's online catalog makes available over 160 million records ranging from before the start of the republic to the modern government.
Information science (often termed as library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.