Did you see the news about a fantastic, new exhibition that is opening here on Dec. 13?
?Exploring the Early Americas? will give people a glimpse of the future of not just our exhibits, but also the educational power of our collections and primary-source materials. This will be the Library?s most high-tech exhibition to date, …
Archive for November, 2007 (12 posts)
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The full draft report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control is now on the Web and the comments period is open until Dec. 15.? Electronic comments are preferred.
Incidentally, the webcast of the group?s presentation on Nov. 13 has apparently been one of the most heavily viewed in the entire history of …
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The National Endowment for the Arts has released its latest study lending more support to the notion that when students read less for pleasure throughout their lives, their overall reading achievement also declines. An analysis of several studies indicates that test scores and voluntary reading tend to go hand in hand.
From The New York …
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I blogged briefly a few months ago about our experience over the course of several nights with some movie stars and a couple of hundred members of the crew who were shooting ?National Treasure: Book of Secrets.?
I was at the movie?s official Web site earlier today, and what did my eyes behold after clicking ?enter …
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When I lived in New York City, it was a Friday evening ritual on my way home from work to pick up a copy of ?Time Out New York? to find out what was going on in the city, especially culturally. But who knew they sometimes write about important goings-on in DC, too?
The current issue …
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I?ve previously blogged about the working group that has been assiduously looking at the Future of Bibliographic Control.
Today the working group will present its draft report at 1:30 p.m. EST at the Library. A live webcast will be available.
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I can imagine affecting my best Andy Rooney voice as I type this, but did ya? ever notice how I tend to blog a lot more on Fridays? Well, the phone usually rings less and I am pulled into fewer meetings, so I try to squeeze in a few moments to blog.
At any rate, our …
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USA Today writes about a pair of different map exhibits?one in Chicago, and another that begins Dec. 13 at the Library of Congress. (Full disclosure: In today?s hard-copy version of the newspaper, the story mistakenly referred in a single instance to the exhibit?s being held at the National Archives.)
The famed 1507 Martin Waldseem?Map will be …
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I recently did an interview with Lisa Guidarini of the blog ?Bluestalking Reader.? (It occurs that I never asked about the name of her blog: Is it ?blue stalking,? or ?blues talking??)
An excerpt:
LG: What?s been the most memorable part of your job, since becoming Director of Communications?
MR: Wow, where to start? Every day is memorable …
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