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Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!

October 2, 2023

This Thursday (October 5) at the Mary Pickford Theater at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

October 2, 2023

Film Loans from the Library of Congress -- October 2023

October 2, 2023

This coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Packard Campus Theater (Oct. 5, 6 and 7, 2023)

October 2, 2023

Brazil de Mis Amores

September 30, 2023

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• An African American Family History Like No Other
• Missed You Much: The Library’s ASCAP Concert Bursts Back into Life
• “Books That Shaped America” Series Starts

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text
• In Your Mind’s Eye: Strange Mental Architecture to Help You Remember
• From Captivity to Capsized: Wild Rose O’Neal Greenhow

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Poet Laureate Explores the Library’s Historic PALABRA Archive
• Meg and Maria: How the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature connected with Sonia Manzano
• Like the Moon Surrounded by Stars: Classic Poetry from South Asia in the Library’s Collections

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Pushing Boundaries: Hispanic and Latin American Creators Who Redefine Success
• Digitizing Over 9 Million Historical Record Pages and Counting
• Our Summer of Artificial Intelligence: Copyright Office Hosts Two Webinars on Copyright and AI

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!
• AFC Announces New Research Guide on the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship
• Botkin Folklife Lecture Premiere: Paddy Bowman and Lisa Rathje

4 Corners of the World: International Collections at the Library of Congress

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• Shaping Latina/o Representation at the Movies with Junior Fellows, Scholars, and Filmmakers
• La Música en la Época de Cervantes
• The Intersection between Texts and Textiles across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: a Display and Talk at the Library of Congress

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Treating Photographs from the Nancy Pelosi Papers: A Photograph Conservation Intern’s Journey
• Preservation Intern Profile: Gabrielle Alongi
• A Blast to the Past: Testing Decades Old Predictions

Headlines and Heroes: Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print

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• Women’s Wedding Fashion: 1900-1910
• Lets Talk Comics: SPX, SDCC, and more!
• You’re Invited! Announcing September Events.

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Five Questions: Georgette Green, Business Reference and Research Specialist
• Labors in Bronze
• Webinar Recording Now Available – African Americans in Business: Doing Historical Company Research

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• The Kluge Center: The History of its Space
• Of Astronettes and Parastronauts
• On Young Black Scholars Navigating Historically White Places 

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Law Library at the National Book Festival – Pic of the Week
• Upcoming U.S. Law Webinars – October 2023
• Talavera Ceramics: At the Intersection of Art, History, and Law in Mexico

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Brazil de Mis Amores
• By the People: Transcribing Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
• Be Like Duff McKagan and Experience Treasures in the Music Division’s Collections

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Can You Solve It? Attend Family Mystery Day On October 21
• Pawpaw: The Story of America in One Fruit
• Junior Girl Scout Day at the Library of Congress

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: M—Henry Mancini
• Ich habe genug. Reflections on Bach’s Cantata BWV 82, Performed by Roderick Williams and the Bach Collegium Japan
• New BARD Additions: February 2023

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• This Thursday (October 5) at the Mary Pickford Theater at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
• Film Loans from the Library of Congress — October 2023
• This coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Packard Campus Theater (Oct. 5, 6 and 7, 2023)

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!
• 2023 CCDI Libraries, Archives, Museums Recipients: Boone County Public Library
• 2023 CCDI Higher Education Recipients: University of New Mexico

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Late 19th-Century Fall Fashions
• Finding Pictures: Illustrating Civil War Medicine
• Vinyl Memories

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• What’s new online at the Library of Congress – September 2023
• Reflections on the 2023 Web Archiving Conference
• The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Five Questions with Kelsey Beeghly, the 2023-2024 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress.
• The Library’s Online Research Center and Reading Room Pages: A New Look for Powerful Portals
• Oppenheimer in the News: Newspaper Articles from the 1940s and 50s

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• A Stitch in Time: Sewing a 1920s Dress Inspired by Hazel MacKaye
• Five Questions for Manuscript Division Intern Lindsay Musil
• Say Yes to (Born-Digital) Access! New Online Resource Guide: Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Tracing General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
• More Places in Civil War History
• Lost at Sea: The Treasure Maps of the Library of Congress