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The Library Information Office manages the distribution of lockers at the start of every academic year. More information regarding Butler locker assignments is provided close to the beginning of the academic year, typically in late August.
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Library visitors may also purchase access to the Libraries, which includes physical access to most library spaces between 9am and 11pm (or during library operating hours within that window), borrowing privileges, use of public computers in library spaces, and access to most e-resources on public computers. Information for visitors to Columbia about services provided by the libraries may be found on our Visitors Services page.
Onsite Services in our offices in Washington, DC, are available by appointment. To submit claims, request certified copies of certificates or copyright deposits, or request searches, visit our Public Information Office by making an appointment here. Copyright Office Reading Room services are available in the James Madison Memorial Building, room LM-463.
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Our free consulting services help you prepare for censorship and implement vital intellectual freedom best practices within your library or school. We create and edit policies, strategize plans for working with communities and families, and provide workshops and programs about the First Amendment, privacy laws, internet filtering, and intellectual freedom.
Subject matter experts from the Office for Intellectual Freedom are available to speak at workshops and professional development sessions on topics such as collection development, professional ethics, and law and policy concerning intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, internet filtering, the First Amendment and more.
We create webinars designed to educate librarians and the public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom in libraries, often focusing on single topics, such as collection development, book challenges, or meeting rooms.. Our webinars are recorded. After the live event, many of the recordings are accessible at the OIF YouTube channel or available through ALA E-learning.
As libraries contend with the unprecedented rise in censorship attempts and attacks on intellectual freedom through adverse legislation, ALA OIF seeks to provide additional support and resources by expanding upon its legal initiatives, to ensure a coordinated and strategic approach to counter groups organizing censorship efforts.
Using the legal basis of intellectual freedom principles, the L4L programs provide training for both legal professionals and library professionals so they will have the expertise necessary for deflecting censorship challenges. The first stage of both programs will be to develop a cadre of trainers (Train-the-Trainer) who will then be empowered to facilitate regional trainings. Trainers and participants will be supported and engaged via an online community and learning hub.
The first cohort of Law for Librarians trainers is meeting for a weekend of training Summer of 2024 to begin their two-year commitment to training and supporting librarians and library workers in their region. The group consists of both school and public librarians, and they will work together with local, state, and regional colleagues.
State library and school library association chapters and state library agencies are encouraged to apply to receive a $10,000 grant to establish or bolster a statewide Intellectual Freedom Helpline. The online application is available here.
In addition to operational funding, grant recipients will be able to send IFH volunteer leaders to an in-person training led by ALA OIF staff and subject matter experts during a national convening. The convening of project leaders from the 10 states selected will take place with ALA staff in Chicago, IL, in October (date TBD). Travel expenses and lodging will be covered or reimbursed.
Ten associations and/or agencies will be selected to receive Intellectual Freedom Helpline grants to establish or expand a state intellectual freedom challenge support system. Award funds must be spent in support, development, and promotion of the project, but cannot be paid out to external parties to do or develop this work on behalf of the organization or agency.
State library associations, school library associations, and state library agencies are encouraged to apply starting in April, 2024. A link to apply and to the application instructions can be found here.
Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF)
FTRF was established in 1969 as a First Amendment legal defense organization affiliated with the American Library Association. FTRF is a separate corporation from the American Library Association, working in close liaison with the ALA.
One of a suite of three rooms in the splendid 1906 Italianate building designed by Charles F. McKim for the institution's founder, Pierpont Morgan, the room is located at the north end of the entrance rotunda that separates Morgan's library from his study.
Our History
USCIS benefits from a legacy of more than 100 years of federal immigration and naturalization administration. Explore our organizational timeline and read about key turning points in U.S. immigration history.
Historical Library
Our library was founded to track the history and implementation of federal immigration and naturalization policies. From our website, you can search our library catalog, read about our collection, and e-mail our library staff. Note: please visit the Genealogy Program to learn how to access the records of individual immigrants.
Research Guides
Consult our online guides to see how research with federal immigration records can provide a better understanding of the history of federal immigration and nationality policies, as well as the agencies and people who administered them.
Please note that our office does not maintain the records of individual immigrants. If you are conducting genealogical research and want to obtain historic immigration and naturalization records, contact the fee-for-service Genealogy Program.
Your question about editing the path makes no sense. This is a COM DLL and not a file you simply load. To change the path, this file would need to be re-registered somewhere else. Moreover, why on earth would you want to do this in the first place?
Office 16 does quite a bit of trickery when it comes to paths. If you look in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs", you will see a number of folders that get "mapped in" as virtual folders when an office component loads. For this reason, I don't think that even re-registering the DLL is a good plan. It might be harmless.. in fact it should be harmless.. but I myself wouldn't do it unless I was willing to hose and need to re-install office.
If you do indeed want to reference a different DLL and not that one, you need to use an application called regsvr32.exe. Regsvr32 looks in a DLL for an entry point called "DLLRegisterServer" (for registration) and "DLLUnRegisterServer" (for removal). It simply calls the function in the DLL to setup the registry with the proper paths to use the component.
The reason for doing the /u is because the functions DLLRegisterServer and DLLUnRegisterServer are just code, not some sort of automated process. The old one might leave things behind that the new one doesn't clobber. If there is no old one.. or it got deleted, it is fairly low risk simply to register the new one without the other step.
I am a bit confused about Microsoft Office 365. I keep seeing that MS is trying to push everyone to the online version of Office. Our libraries offer MS Office on the public use Internet computers but, currently only a locally installed version.
Device-based licensing for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise is available as a license only for some commercial customers and some education customers. For commercial customers, the license is Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (device) and is available only through Enterprise Agreement/Enterprise Agreement Subscription. For education customers, the license is Microsoft 365 Apps for Education (device) and is available only through Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES). For more information, read the blog post on education availability. For commercial availability, contact your Microsoft account representative.
Microsoft office 365 subscriptions provide per-user licenses, which means that the apps can be installed and used on up to five phones, five tablets, and five PCs or Macs simultaneously means a total of 6 ,but Microsoft announced a preview for the new device-based licensing for Office desktop apps, but this feature is available only for certain educational and commercial customers. As commercial customer, you must have an Enterprise Agreement/Enterprise Agreement Subscription, and the SKU is Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (device). Also You cannot directly license a given device, you must add them to a group first.
UN Geneva is an active knowledge hub for the international community and researchers on multilateralism and international cooperation. Consequently, its library and archives open their doors not only to UN staff and members of the diplomatic corps but to researchers, students and practitioners from all walks of life.
The Organization offers opportunities to exchange knowledge, encourages cooperation, innovation and inspires new ideas through the Library and Archives collections, events, cultural activities, and the Museum.
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