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Patrick Tayluer on the Art and Origin of Sea Shanties

October 9, 2024

2024 CCDI Junior Fellow Janiya Peters Uses Audio to Explore the Cotton Gin as a Technological Artifact

October 9, 2024

Make Yourself Laugh at Comedy Night!

October 9, 2024

Trusts, Combinations, and Charles R. Flint

October 9, 2024

Join us for Family Days at the Library: Celebrate Halloween on October 19th!

October 9, 2024

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• “LatinoLand” and Hispanic Heritage Month
• The Season of Edgar Allan Poe: Autumn, Halloween and The Falling Darkness
• Finding Latinos in Film

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• Andrew Holleran and the Violet Quill
• Thomas Jefferson Knew his Greek
• An Interview with Patrick Hastings, Education Outreach Specialist

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Make Yourself Laugh at Comedy Night!
• For the Second Year in a Row, our Literary Ambassadors are Honored for their Genius
• Comedy Night Is Going to Be Fun-tastic!

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• El programa de español de la Oficina del Derecho de Autor amplía acceso a información sobre el derecho de autor
• Copyright Office Spanish Language Program Broadens Access to Copyright Information
• #ICYMI: Recap of the Copyright Office’s Webinar on Leveling Up Your Copyright Public Records Search

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Patrick Tayluer on the Art and Origin of Sea Shanties
• By the People: Help Transcribe the AFC’s Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection!
• Fiona Ritchie’s Thistle and Shamrock Signs Off

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

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• Nynorsk: The Literary Language of Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse
• Indian Independence League Files in the World War II Records from Burma Collection
• Fifty New Recordings from the PALABRA Archive Now Available

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Purrservation: On Cats, Audiences, and Whys
• Is this going to work at all? My summer exploring the non-invasive analysis of organic colors.
• Explainette!? A 1950’s Training Time Capsule

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• The Bloody Benders: Homestead of Horrors
• Junior Fellow Spotlight: Zoe Harrison
• Celebrate the Small Press Expo at the Library

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Trusts, Combinations, and Charles R. Flint
• Hispanic American Business Icons Webinar on October 15
• Truss: Bird or Bridge?

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Chair in Technology and Society Ainissa Ramirez on Why Everyone Deserves a Chance to Find Science Fascinating
• Weather Control, Vichy France, and Early America: A Summer of Research as a Kluge Center Intern
• Roth, the Patient as a Nice Jewish Boy

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Join Us on 10/29 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on What’s in a Legal Gender? A Guide to European Gender Determination Laws
• Watch a Recording of the 2024 Congress.gov Public Forum
• The Law Library of Congress Invites Applications for the 2025 Guggenheim Scholars Program

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Annegret Fauser and Tim Carter Fellowship at the Library of Congress Music Division
• The Henry Mancini Papers: A Centennial Celebration
• New Finding Aids at the Music Division of the Library of Congress

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Join us for Family Days at the Library: Celebrate Halloween on October 19th!
• Teens Collect Memories at the Library of Congress
• Traces of Homelands

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions September 2024
• New BARD Additions: August 2024
• NLS Music Section Moves to John Adams Building on Capitol Hill

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• A Look at Our Hispanic Heritage: Remembering Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba”
• This Coming Friday at the Packard Campus Theater (October 11, 2024)
• Traveling the Airwaves: Carlos Gardel on NBC Radio

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• 2024 CCDI Junior Fellow Janiya Peters Uses Audio to Explore the Cotton Gin as a Technological Artifact
• Junior Fellow Spotlight: Avianna Miller
• Connecting Communities Digital Initiative – An Interview with Michelle Minor

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Copper Mining and Its Monumental Structures
• New Gift of Artist Takuichi Fujii’s Drawings
• All Aboard for Pikes Peak

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• Breaking Down Barriers to Access: An Interview with Liz Caringola
• What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: August 2024
• Nominations sought for the 2024-2025 U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term Web Archive

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Five Questions with Ralph Pantozzi, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress
• Five Questions with Jessica Fries-Gaither, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress
• New Video: Primary Sources in a K-12 Classroom

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Intern Spotlight: The Shifting Reputation of Christopher Columbus as Seen in the Christopher Columbus Collection at the Library of Congress
• Of Note: Not THAT Kind of Husbandry
• George Washington’s Uncle Writes Home: The Letterbook of Joseph Ball

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Virtual Orientation to the Geography and Map Division: Tuesday 10/8
• Cardinal Borgia’s Unusual Map of the World
• Unearthing the 20th Century’s Ground-Breaking Soil Surveys