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- verb Present participle of
accession .
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Examples
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"accessioning," that I'm going to talk about here..
Museum Blogs 2009
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One large room was what I thought I needed for the tables, file cabinets, map case, desks, shelves for books, office supplies, book accessioning station and bill-paying desk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The job itself was laborious and, at times, maddeningly dull—accessioning, cross-indexing, circulating, and filing the thousands of dispatches, orders, and espionage and sabotage reports that flowed in from Washington and OSS field operations all over Southeast Asia—but it carried with it a grave responsibility.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Art lovers shriek that this sort of philistine "de-accessioning" violates the public trust and discourages benefactors from giving away their masterpieces.
Trading a Monet for a Solid Southpaw Joe Queenan 2011
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The job itself was laborious and, at times, maddeningly dull—accessioning, cross-indexing, circulating, and filing the thousands of dispatches, orders, and espionage and sabotage reports that flowed in from Washington and OSS field operations all over Southeast Asia—but it carried with it a grave responsibility.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Direct observation of sample accessioning, Southern blotting, PCR, and DNA sequence analysis
Laboratory Rotation 2010
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One large room was what I thought I needed for the tables, file cabinets, map case, desks, shelves for books, office supplies, book accessioning station and bill-paying desk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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One large room was what I thought I needed for the tables, file cabinets, map case, desks, shelves for books, office supplies, book accessioning station and bill-paying desk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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One large room was what I thought I needed for the tables, file cabinets, map case, desks, shelves for books, office supplies, book accessioning station and bill-paying desk.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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But Kahle (who doesn't own an e-book reader) objected to the way some libraries have begun to rely on Google's collections and "de-accessioning" paper copies -- that is, trashing them, which seems the sort of thing that happens only in science-fiction novels.
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