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Introducing House Roll Call Votes in the Congress.gov API

May 13, 2025

Louis Michot and Leyla McCalla: Homegrown Plus

May 13, 2025

"The Tale of Genji:" 1,000 Years of Romance

May 13, 2025

This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus (May 16-17, 2025)

May 12, 2025

A Teen "Take": Solving Mysteries With Science and History

May 11, 2025

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

Recent Posts

• “The Tale of Genji:” 1,000 Years of Romance
• Raúl Ruiz, La Raza Collection Lands at the Library
• Ashley Dickerson, Powerlifting Librarian

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• President James Monroe: Political Historian
• The Revolutionary Smith Sisters of Glastonbury
• An Alternate Ending to Romeo and Juliet

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2008
• An Interview with Library of Congress Crime Classics Editor Leslie S. Klinger
• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2007

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• A.I., Art, and Copyright: The Human Element That Makes All the Difference
• Looking Back at the First African American Winners of an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar
• Inside the Copyright Office’s Report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Louis Michot and Leyla McCalla: Homegrown Plus
• Jack and the Northwest Wind: A Jack Tale Text from the American Folklife Center
• Lao Buddhist New Year Festival in Southern Louisiana Collection Now Online

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

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• Echoes of al-Andalus at the Library of Congress
• Now Online: The WW1-Era POW Camp Newspaper “Hindostan” in Hindi and Urdu
• Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• 125 years of Binding, Part Three: Annexed
• Get Lost! (and Other Lessons I Learned from the Stacks Survey)
• 125 years of binding, Part Two: The Library Binding Branch

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• Improving Machine-Readable Text for Newspapers in Chronicling America
• 250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
• AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Small Business, Big Impact: National Small Business Week
• James Cash Penney: An Indefatigable Salesman
• Financial Literacy Pathways: A Personal Finance Resource Guide

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes Michael Auslin
• Kluge Center Welcomes Costica Bradatan
• Kluge Center Welcomes Shannon Mattern and Nelson Tebbe

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Introducing House Roll Call Votes in the Congress.gov API
• Join us on 5/22 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar: “How to Handle AI? – Italian National Regulation in the Context of European Law”
• Marine Barracks Washington, D.C.: Pic of the Week

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• New Research Guide: James Reese Europe Resources at the Library of Congress
• A Second Stradivari Viola Finds a Home at the Library of Congress
• By the People: Transcribing Cue Sheets for Silent Film

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• A Teen “Take”: Solving Mysteries With Science and History
• Jade Snow Wong’s Childhood in San Francisco’s Chinatown
• Enjoy a Musical Family Day on May 17th!

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions – April 2025
• New BARD Additions: February and March 2025
• New BARD Additions: January 2025

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus (May 16-17, 2025)
• The Quest for Arch Oboler
• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus (May 9 – 10, 2025)

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Community Collections Grants Spotlight: Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora: Los Pleneros de la 21
• Maya Freelon Reclaims Childhood for Enslaved Children at Historic Stagville
• Recording of CCDI’s Fall 2024 Awardee Project Celebration Now Available Online 

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Our Best Resource for Historic American Architecture, Engineering, and Landscapes
• Happy 225th Birthday, Library of Congress!
• The Greatest Show on Mud: Edwin Martin’s Photographs of Traveling Circuses

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• Documenting Industry in a Changing World: Inside the Industry Associations Web Archive
• DC Chapter of AI4LAM Holds First Meeting
• Collections Digitization Enhances Access: An Interview with Hanna Fogle

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Women’s Suffrage: Analyzing Conditional Arguments in Historical Primary Sources
• The Price of Pollution: Helping Students Visualize Relationships Between Economic Concepts and Environmental Issues with a 1909 Political Cartoon
• Kent State: Exploring Accounts of a Tragic Event Through Primary Sources

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Of Note: Family, Fashion, and Filipino American History
• Staff Favorites: Finding Culture, War, and Handmade Surprises with Cataloging Librarian Joy Orillo-Dotson
• Finding Forgotten Suffragists: Researching Ruza Wenclawska at the Library of Congress

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• A Unique Perspective – Unusual Topographic Maps in the Collections
• Exploring Map Surrounds
• Balti-more or Less That Way: How a Port City Moved