Library of Congress

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/22/2020
  

  Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize

  Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”

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• SOURCE: John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress
  5/4/2020
  

  Virtual Conversation on the Future of Democracy: Yuval Levin, May 13

  The John W. Kluge Center's upcoming online events include this conversation with Yuval Levin on democratic institutions in crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  2/19/20
  

  Library of Congress acquires major archive of African American photographer Shawn Walker

  The Walker archive — 100,000 photographs, negatives and transparencies capturing life on the streets of Harlem from 1963 to now — will be the library’s first full archive of work by an African American photographer accessible to the public.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/31/20
  

  It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo.

  The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public. 

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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.