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Taking to the Skies

December 8, 2023

Your Roadmap to Success: Write a Business Plan in December

December 8, 2023

Bite-Sized Legal Research Tutorial: Military Legal Resources

December 8, 2023

Remembering Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Willa Cather on Her 150th Birthday

December 7, 2023

Carl Sagan: Childhood Dreams of Space Flight

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• Carl Sagan: Childhood Dreams of Space Flight
• Q & A: Guy Lamolinara, at the Center for the Book
• Beer Runs to the White House and Other Long-ago Radio Delights

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• The Dim Gray Bar Press Archive
• “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

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Remembering Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Willa Cather on Her 150th Birthday
• Add Your Signature to “Message in a Bottle” and Help Us Get to 2 Million!
• Native American Authors for Your Reading List

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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• The Green Man, Vernacular Christianity, and the Folk Saint
• 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

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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• Your Roadmap to Success: Write a Business Plan in December
• 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

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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• Bite-Sized Legal Research Tutorial: Military Legal Resources
• The State Library of New South Wales – Pic of the Week
• Bite-Sized Legal Research Tutorial: Navigating the Library of Congress Catalog

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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• Crafting from the Collections: Holiday Cards
• What’s the History of my Hometown? Activities & Collections to Explore
• Where’s the Turkey? Activities for Exploring a State-by-State Historical Menu

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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• Taking to the Skies
• Another Miracle on 34th Street
• Take a Hike!

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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• Tracing General Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Apply Now! Summer 2024 Professional Development at the Library of Congress
• Explore the History of Your Family and Community

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• A New Look at an Old Ledger Reveals Stories About African-American History
• 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

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