The re-classification of a children's book on Native American history in a Texas library has caused an uproar among consumers, activists and library organizations nationwide. Last month, a citizen ...

The roots and traditions of the Library of Congress of the United States are firmly embedded in eighteenth-century European ideals and practices, but specific to what was to become the United States.

A full-code demo from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to predict the type of a college course by analyzing grade counts for each type of course. General naive Bayes classification ...

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When S.R. Ranganathan, born in Siyali (now Sirkazhi) in Mayiladuthurai district in 1892, finished post-graduation and took up teaching of mathematics, he must not have realised that he would be ...