Today in History - March 12

On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, one of the world's foremost industrialists, offered the city of New York $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries.  Continue reading.

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Join foreign law specialist George Sadek on Thursday, March 26, at 2:00 p.m. DST for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on the role of legislative bodies in Arab League member states. This series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress.

The Arab League, founded in Cairo on March 22, 1945, with seven members and now comprising 22 states. The session will outline the League's purpose, membership, headquarters, Secretary General, and charter. It will identify the bicameral or unicameral legislatures of member states, explain how parliamentarians are elected or appointed and their eligibility requirements, and analyze legislative processes across the region, including in states with suspended legislatures such as Kuwait and in conflict affected countries such as Yemen, Libya, and Syria.

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Announcing NLS Braille eReader software update

NLS has released an update to the software used by the HumanWare NLS Braille eReader. Patrons can download and install the software, called EBH version 3.0.1_Build 3486, upon connecting to Wi-Fi. (No update is required for patrons using the Zoomax model of the NLS Braille eReader.)

This software update addresses a bug in EBH software version 3.0 that prevented patrons from logging into BARD or downloading BARD books due to expired tokens. It improves the HumanWare NLS Braille eReader’s handling of BARD Login token expirations and ensures that tokens are not malformed due to concurrent access.

If your HumanWare eReader is not connected to the Internet, you do not need to install this software update. 

—The BARD Support Team

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