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Archive: December 2010 (6 Posts)

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Pic of the Week: At Your Service

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

As you walk through the main center door of the Science and Business Reading Room, you see the Book Service Desk straight ahead. Because the Library’s books stacks are closed to the public, this is where researchers turn in paper call slips to retrieve items from the General Collections and pick up delivered items.  Thousands …

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Pic of the Week

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

We decided to follow the lead of our Law Library colleagues at In Custodia Legis with a Picture of the Week series.   In this series we will show you interesting things we  see in and around the Library of Congress John Adams Building. With that said, our first photo features one of the John Adams Building owls that  greets vistors …

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

One in a Septillion

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

While winter has not yet officially arrived, some of us have been given a taste of the season to come with cold temperatures, frigid winds, frost, ice, and even powdery snow. When I think of winter, I think of twinkling ice crystals falling from the sky and colliding to become intricate snowflakes. Each winter there …