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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
7/30/19
The Library of Congress Wants Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers
Nearly 16,000 pages of diaries, letters, speeches and other documents are available on the library’s crowdsourcing platform.
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6/25/19
10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage
by Andrew Fletcher
Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress.
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SOURCE: Roll Call
12-12-2018
Library of Congress Adds More Classics to National Film Registry
"Brokeback Mountain," "The Shining," "The Lady From Shanghai" are among selections.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-21-18
James H. Billington, 89, Dies; Led Library of Congress Into Digital Age
He led the Library of Congress for nearly three decades, taking over at the dawn of the digital era.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-17-18
Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online
According to the Library of Congress, its collection of Roosevelt’s papers has become the world’s largest, with 276,000 documents and more than 460,000 images.
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SOURCE: Slate
12-27-17
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Tweet. Good.
Instead, it will then begin to “acquire tweets on a selective basis.”
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SOURCE: Roll Call
2-22-17
Carla Hayden says Frederick Douglass "might have a lot to do with the fact that I am a librarian”
She’s the new Librarian of Congress.
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SOURCE: Fine Books Magazine
4-2016
John Y. Cole Named Library of Congress Historian
It’s a new position dedicated to serving as the top technical expert and adviser on the history of the Library of Congress
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SOURCE: NYT
6-12-15
Many Choices for Obama in Replacing Billington at Library of Congress
Only 10 presidents have had the opportunity to nominate a librarian of Congress to oversee America’s largest trove of intellectual treasures and to serve as the chief of the sprawling research institution for the nation’s lawmakers.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-10-15
Library of Congress Chief Retires Under Fire
The move comes after the library’s leader, James H. Billington, presided over a series of management and technology failures documented by government watchdog agencies.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-29-15
A grandmother’s trove of Civil War photos goes to Library of Congress
Collector Robin Stanford has gathered rare stereo photos of war and slavery for 40 years.
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SOURCE: AP
2-3-15
Rosa Parks' archive opening to public at Library of Congress
Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks' archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12-1-14
The Great Paper Caper
by Jill Lepore
Someone swiped Justice Frankfurter’s papers. What else has gone missing?
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SOURCE: Library of Congress Blog
5-19-14
The Library of Congress Civil Rights History Project
by Mark Hartsell
The database, the first of its kind, makes available to researchers information about civil rights oral-history collections at public libraries, museums, universities and historical societies in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
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SOURCE: LC
4-25-14
Library of Congress ... The John Adams Building at 75
Seventy-five years ago, the Library opened a second building on Capitol Hill to house its growing collections.
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SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune
12-4-13
Fully 70 percent of films from silent era are lost, according to Library of Congress report
The report also advocates developing preservation programs.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
11-14-13
Library of Congress to preserve public broadcasting archive with recordings from 120 stations
40,000 hours of content is being digitized to become the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
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SOURCE: Library of Congress
9-5-13
Library of Congress working to save pulp magazines
The Library is preserving the lurid colorful colors of the pulpy, trashy magazines of yesteryear.
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SOURCE: CBS News
7-30-13
Library of Congress races to preserve TV history
(CBS News) CULPEPER, Va. -- There are moments that define America, and the record of many of them are stored in a vault in Culpeper, Va.But these videotapes, some 50 years old, are deteriorating, and there is a race to preserve the history they contain."I think an important thing is to capture people's memories, to take people back to the day when they first saw Carol Burnett tug on her ear, or the day when Walter Cronkite couldn't hardly finish his sentence in November 1963, when Kennedy was shot," says Rob Stone, the Moving Image Curator of the Library of Congress....
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SOURCE: WaPo
5-1-13
Va. Quarterly Review, founded in 1925, makes Library of Congress director its 1st black editor
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A top literary journal founded in 1925 has hired a Library of Congress director to be its new editor.The Virginia Quarterly Review announced Wednesday that W. Ralph Eubanks will take over as editor, effective June 3....
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