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Exploring Map Surrounds

April 25, 2025

Catfish Row Comes to New York: The Genesis of "Porgy and Bess"

April 25, 2025

Submit Your Proposal to a March 2026 Symposium on Cultural Heritage and COVID-19, hosted by American Folklife Center

April 25, 2025

The Librarian as Hero: Ainsworth Spofford

April 25, 2025

Lotte Reiniger: Animation Innovator

April 24, 2025

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• The Librarian as Hero: Ainsworth Spofford
• A Precious Bible Blessed By Pope Francis at the Library
• Keeping Your Powder Dry

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• An Alternate Ending to Romeo and Juliet
• The Not-So-Great Gatsby
• A Little Note About A Giant Bible

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2006
• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2005
• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2004

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• 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
• Lifecycle of Copyright: 1929 Works in the Public Domain

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Submit Your Proposal to a March 2026 Symposium on Cultural Heritage and COVID-19, hosted by American Folklife Center
• Library of Congress Launches Seventh Season of “America Works” Podcast
• Chock It Up To Murder (Part Two): The Aftermath

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

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• Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)
• Fifty New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for National Poetry Month
• Exploring the spread of Islam in Somalia

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Get Lost! (and Other Lessons I Learned from the Stacks Survey)
• 125 years of binding, Part Two: The Library Binding Branch
• Celebrating the Mummers Parade: A Day at the Mummers Museum

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• 250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
• AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
• AHHA Intern Spotlight: Jala Robertson

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Lotte Reiniger: Animation Innovator
• Early Mercantilism and French Silk Worms: A New Rare Book Acquisition at the Library
• New Recording Available: Naa Oyo Kwate on Fast Food History

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes Costica Bradatan
• Kluge Center Welcomes Shannon Mattern and Nelson Tebbe
• Humanistic Research and Machine Learning: Exploring Editorial Cartoons with Newspaper Navigator

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Law Library Publishes New Report, “Minimum Wages for Seafarers on Foreign-Registered Vessels”
• A Conversation with the Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut and American Bar Association President William R. Bay
• Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – April 2025

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Catfish Row Comes to New York: The Genesis of “Porgy and Bess”
• Now Streaming: Leslie Odom Jr., Lectures, and Artist Conversations
• Two Women Composers, Two Commissions

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• National Poetry Month: Exploring Out Your Window and Out of this World
• Animal Antics for April Fools’ Day
• Celebrate Japanese Culture with Family Day on April 5

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 Month at the Packard Campus Theater — May 2025
• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus (April 25 – 26, 2025)
• This Thursday (7:00 PM April 17) at the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress (Washington, DC)

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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• Happy 225th Birthday, Library of Congress!
• The Greatest Show on Mud: Edwin Martin’s Photographs of Traveling Circuses
• Finding Pictures: Postcards – Wish You Were Here!

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• DC Chapter of AI4LAM Holds First Meeting
• Collections Digitization Enhances Access: An Interview with Hanna Fogle
• Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Mass Persuasion Campaigns: A New Primary Source Set for Educators
• Beulah Henry Finds Invention Inspiration in Everyday Items: Primary Sources in Three-Dimensional Science Learning
• The Congressional Record as a Primary Source for Teaching About the Cold War

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Finding Forgotten Suffragists: Researching Ruza Wenclawska at the Library of Congress
• An American Tourist in Nazi Germany
• Made at the Library: Shopping All the Way to the Woods with Rachel Gross

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Exploring Map Surrounds
• Balti-more or Less That Way: How a Port City Moved
• Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps