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Add Your Signature to “Message in a Bottle” and Help Us Get to 2 Million!

December 5, 2023

Rebel Music Publisher, Honest John Playford at 400!

December 5, 2023

World AIDS Day: Legislating AIDS Care in the United States

December 5, 2023

Q & A: Guy Lamolinara, at the Center for the Book

December 5, 2023

Marguerite Harrison: Debutante, Newspaperwoman, and Undercover Spy.

December 5, 2023

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• Q & A: Guy Lamolinara, at the Center for the Book
• Beer Runs to the White House and Other Long-ago Radio Delights
• “Maestro” — A Look at Leonard Bernstein’s Papers at the Library

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• “In Our Own Language”: Lenape Hymnals in the Rare Book Collection
• In The Footprints of the Prophets: Hebrew Incunabula from the Duke of Sussex’s Library
• A Pair of Shakespeare First Folios at the Library of Congress

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Add Your Signature to “Message in a Bottle” and Help Us Get to 2 Million!
• Native American Authors for Your Reading List
• New at the Library: Literary Papers of Wyandot Poet Hen-Toh

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Over One Million Card Catalog Records Digitized in Copyright Public Records System Pilot
• Native American Heritage Month Highlight: Reservation Dogs
• Checking in with the Copyright Claims Board Nearly Eighteen Months After Opening Day

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Song Hunting in the Appalachians with Karpeles and Cowell: In the Footsteps of Cecil Sharp Part 1
• AFC’s Community-driven Archives Discussion Part 2: Zooming in on Approaches and Impacts
• Now Available: the AFC’s Community-driven Archives Discussion Event (Part 1)

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

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• Travesía de Palabras Indígenas entre México y el Archivo de la PALABRA
• Journey of Indigenous Words between Mexico and the PALABRA Archive
• What Were Pakistani Women Reading in the Sixties? A Glance at “Ak̲h̲bār-i k̲h̲avātīn”

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• The Impact of Jikji: A Conversation with UNESCO Documentary Heritage Unit Chief, Dr. Fackson Banda
• Of Inks and Skins, and the Stories They Tell
• What is the Planograph?

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• Marguerite Harrison: Debutante, Newspaperwoman, and Undercover Spy.
• Behind the Byline: Burris Jenkins Jr
• How Thanksgiving Cuisine Earned a Place at the Table

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Cancer Moonshot Panel Webinar will Discuss AI and Cancer on December 5
• New “This Month in Business History” Entries for United Farm Workers, César Chávez, and Dolores Huerta
• Geyer’s: Businesses and “How they Face the World” (part 3)

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Why Send a Poem Into Space?
• The Kluge Center: The History of its Space
• Of Astronettes and Parastronauts

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• World AIDS Day: Legislating AIDS Care in the United States
• Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – December 2023
• Chickens, Trucks, and Tariffs: A 1960s Trade War

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Rebel Music Publisher, Honest John Playford at 400!
• Chief Adjuah, a Journey to New Orleans
• It Runs in the Family: Heartwarming Photos from the Music Division

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• What’s the History of my Hometown? Activities & Collections to Explore
• Where’s the Turkey? Activities for Exploring a State-by-State Historical Menu
• How To Collect Family Recipes: Inspiration From The Library’s Cookbook Collection

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions: November 2023
• Braille Music Basics: Intervals
• New BARD Additions: October 2023

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• This Coming Thursday and Friday at the Packard Campus Theater (Dec. 7 and 8, 2023)
• Film Loans from the Library of Congress — December 2023
• This Thursday (November 30) at the Mary Pickford Theater at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Celebrating CHamoru Nobenas with Lola Quan Bautista
• CCDI Junior Fellow Spotlight: Majestie Varnado, “Heavy is the Hair: Evolution of African Hair in America from the 17th c. to the 20th c.”
• CCDI Junior Fellow Spotlight: Olivia Hewang, “Identity and Solidarity: Asian American Activism in the 1960s and 70s”

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Another Miracle on 34th Street
• Take a Hike!
• P&P Abroad | Eyes on Oslo, Then & Now

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• Embracing FFV1 in Matroska Container as a “Preferred Format” in the RFS
• What’s new online at the Library of Congress – November 2023
• Jump in! An Interview with Thomas Crowley

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Explore the History of Your Family and Community
• See you in Nashville for NCSS 2023
• Library of Congress Self-Paced Professional Development Modules Now Online

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Love and Intrigue at Princeton: Newly Opened Letters from Einstein’s Love Affair with Margarita Konenkova
• Happy Thanksgiving: Reflecting on the Simple Joys of Daily Life
• Home Rule and Go-Go “Live! at the Library,” November 30, 2023

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Climate Migrants of the 1930’s Dust Bowl
• Atlas of the Ottoman New Order
• GIS Day 2023: Climate Cartographies