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By: Matt Raymond
Readers probably think I am just a little bit obsessed with the Library?s 1507 Waldseem?World Map, which opens Dec. 13 in the dazzling new ?Exploring the Early Americas? exhibit. Thankfully, it would seem that I am not alone. Clicking over to Reuters? main page for U.S. news, I found that their story on the map …
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By: Matt Raymond
In advance of the Dec. 13 opening of ?Exploring the Early Americas,? Wyatt Mason of The New York Times Magazine penned a thought-provoking piece on the naming of America (with a suitably Colbert-esque headline), focusing on the new ongoing exhibit?s 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseem? As Mason writes, the seven-letter word that names our …
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By: Matt Raymond
Did you see the news about a fantastic, new exhibition that is opening here on Dec. 13? ?Exploring the Early Americas? will give people a glimpse of the future of not just our exhibits, but also the educational power of our collections and primary-source materials. This will be the Library?s most high-tech exhibition to date, …
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By: Matt Raymond
The full draft report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control is now on the Web and the comments period is open until Dec. 15.? Electronic comments are preferred. Incidentally, the webcast of the group?s presentation on Nov. 13 has apparently been one of the most heavily viewed in the entire history …
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By: Matt Raymond
I blogged briefly a few months ago about our experience over the course of several nights with some movie stars and a couple of hundred members of the crew who were shooting “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” I was at the movie’s official website earlier today, and what did my eyes behold after clicking “enter …
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By: Matt Raymond
When I lived in New York City, it was a Friday evening ritual on my way home from work to pick up a copy of ?Time Out New York? to find out what was going on in the city, especially culturally. But who knew they sometimes write about important goings-on in DC, too? The current …
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By: Matt Raymond
I?ve previously blogged about the working group that has been assiduously looking at the Future of Bibliographic Control. Today the working group will present its draft report at 1:30 p.m. EST at the Library. A live webcast will be available.
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By: Matt Raymond
It has been suggested that I should consider altering the opening line from my recent post about a poetry reading I attended: ?Attending poetry readings seems like one of the great fringe benefits of my job, except that occasions such as last evening?s are free and open to the public at large.? The implication was …
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Several folks who read the blog via RSS feeds have been requesting the full text of posts rather than just excerpts. Ask, and it shall be given unto you. You should now receive the full text of all posts if you subscribe to our syndication feed. (By the way, I wrote that headline even though …
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By: Matt Raymond
Seeing as how we now have a few more readers than, well, zero, I wanted to try my first ?open thread.? This one is topic-specific and might also become another recurring feature, asking a simple question: What are you reading? (Aside from this blog, of course.) It?s a natural question for this blog. After all, …
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