A staff member here at the Library pointed me to this article in The New York Times about a revamped test immigrants must pass before they may become citizens.
The article talks about the pros and cons of both the old test and the new.? The aim, according to the story, was to get away from …
Archive for September, 2007 (15 posts)
Posted in: History, LC Web site, Libraries, News
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What an exciting day!? With the National Book Festival just hours away, things are really hopping here.
I began early this morning trying to meet Dr. Billington at the White House for some joint media interviews with Mrs. Laura Bush, but my entrance was delayed by a ?suspicious package? on 17th Street that turned out to …
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There has been a bit of a blogospheric brouhaha over what the Library of Congress charges to make its entire Copyright database available (see here and here, for example)?enough so that we have now put out this statement:
Regarding Pricing on Bulk Access to Copyright Cataloging Information
Recent questions and concerns have arisen regarding the cost of …
Posted in: Cataloging, Congress, Copyright, News
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It?s called the ?National Book Festival,? so this year we?re doing something a little different to help make it even more truly national.
This year we have launched a ?Young Readers? Toolkit? on the NBF Web site. There we provide a whole set of tools to help you host your very own book festival in your …
Posted in: Books, Education, Events, LC Web site, News
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Tonight the final touches will be put on the Library?s West Side Story exhibition (thus the headline), which opens tomorrow, Sept. 26, and remains on view in the foyer of the Performing Arts Reading Room (room 113 of the Library?s James Madison Memorial Building) through March 29.
?West Side Story: Birth of a Classic? marks the …
Posted in: Exhibitions, LC Web site, Music
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Beginning this Sunday, Sept. 23, many Americans will be rapt as they watch the stories from Ken Burns? latest series, ?The War,? on PBS.
The series focuses on firsthand accounts of those who were affected by World War II?much like the goal of the Library?s Veterans History Project.
If you get a chance, check out VHP?s companion …
Posted in: History, LC Web site, News, veterans history project
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Some strong but, unfortunately, inaccurate words have been used regarding a small handful of the 50,000+ oral histories of the Veterans History Project (part of the Library?s American Folklife Center).
News reporters and others have been using terms like ?fraud? or ?misrepresentation? to describe the incorrect listing of 24 veterans on the VHP Web site as …
Posted in: LC Web site, News, veterans history project
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A pair of senators have gone ?on the Record??the Congressional Record, that is?to praise the 20-year tenure of Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, which was marked on Sept. 14, 2007.
Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts each made statements in the past several days in honor of the milestone.? The …
Posted in: Congress, Events, History, News
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