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Akha notebook 908

Description: Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives about animals, opium, love, nature, and spirits originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 18-87.
Date: March 21, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 910

Description: Handwritten notes and English translations of songs and narratives originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 87 and 88 and an untranslated ritual narrative.
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Performance of Lai Haraoba pena ballads and dance

Description: Video of a festival featuring dance and pena performances. Elders are shown assembling the pena. Pena cholom is where a group of pena balladeers play together organized by ranks where the highest ranking balladeer plays first, and so on. The structure and components of the pena are described. Other instruments similar to the pena are shown, like tingteila of the Tangkhuls, and Laa of Kabui (Rongmei). The final segment includes a voice-over in English describing spirituality and symbolism of pen… more
Date: 1999
Duration: 2 hours 19 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Audio Visual Research Centre
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Elicitation of common words

Description: Elicitation of common nouns including body parts, family members, household items, clothing, and the natural world, and question words. Kushal Singh helps translate. Recorded in the Altodi Raji hamlet.
Date: November 16, 1998
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
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CIMI's Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Search and Retrieval of Distributed Cultural Heritage Information

Description: This paper discusses the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)'s international effort to provide distributed search and retrieval of cultural heritage information. A primary aspect of CIMI's work utilizes ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995, and American National Standard protocol for information retrieval. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently approved Z39.50 as ISO 23950. CIMI chose Z39.50 to enable uniform access to existing and emerging digital c… more
Date: January 2, 1998
Creator: Moen, William E.
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The Challenges of Training and Retraining Mature Learners

Description: Article discussing research on the aging process from physical, cognitive, and social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educators for the workforce of the new millennium.
Date: 1998
Creator: Ennis-Cole, Demetria & Allen, Jeff M.
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Field notes from elicitations

Description: Field notes from elicitations of common nouns (body parts, family members, colors, natural objects) and sentence structure. Sentence examples demonstrate negation, interrogatives, conditionals, and pronouns in Raji.
Date: 1998/2004
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
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In the Shadow of the Tiger

Description: Documentary about life in the villages surrounding the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal (Shiltong, South Paro, North Paro, Rajabathkava, and Bothia villages). Villagers and government officials describe a project by the World Bank to create wildlife reserves for endangered species, specifically the Bengal tiger. Villagers struggle to grow enough food, and elephants trample their fields. They were told to resettle elsewhere, but refused to leave their ancestral lands. Selling firewood is a main… more
Date: 1998
Duration: 53 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Grundström, Veena & Karlsson, Beppe
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The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education

Description: This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.
Date: 1998
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Sarkees-Wircenski, Michelle & West, Lynda L.
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An Evaluation of the Federal Government's Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Final Report

Description: This document reports the results of the evaluation study commissioned in response to the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Board's request for an assessment of GILS. The study began in September 1996, data collection ended in March 1997, and the final report was completed in June 1997. The goal of the study was to understand how: GILS serves various user groups, GILS improves public access to government information, agencies are progressing with their implementations, and GILS work… more
Date: June 30, 1997
Creator: Moen, William E. & McClure, Charles R.
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