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Posted in: Headlines & Heroes
By: Juliette Appold
Celebrate Native American Heritage month with R. Carlos Nakai's lecture on Native American flutes and learn about resources from the NLS Music Section, NLS General Collection, and from Library of Congress Collections.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
In this guest post, Kathleen O'Neill, Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division, announces the launch of a new workstation in the Library's Manuscript Division reading room.
Posted in: The Signal
On Saturday, October 22, the Library of Congress hosted a Halloween Family Day, featuring Goosebumps author R.L. Stine and Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne discussing 30 years of their series. The Library’s Informal Learning Office also hosted spooky art and reading activities for families in the Jefferson Building before the author program. One …
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Jan Grenci
When searching in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC), one fascinating image can often lead to another. That is what happened when I was looking for apple images for the latest Flickr album How Do You Like These Apples? I included this Currier & Ives lithograph from the Popular Graphic Arts Collection in the …
Posted in: Picture This
This post was written by Malea Walker, a reference librarian in the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress. It was originally published on the Headlines & Heroes blog. If you’re looking for a Halloween treat, take a break from the spooky and the scary and enjoy some of these Halloween themed …
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Cary O’Dell
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Our trip through the seedier side of Los Angeles ends this weekend with a more recent classic of the L.A. noir sub-genre and an all-star animated cast who find themselves embroiled in some shady and shadowing dealings. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
Learn about the relationship between copyright and translations and celebrate noted translator Gregory Rabassa, author of the English translation for One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Posted in: Copyright
By: Brian McCurdy
For this week's NLS Music Notes blog post, we take a deep dive into a piece that is often associated with the October tradition of Halloween: "Danse macabre" by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Suzanne Schadl
(This is a guest post by Catalina Gómez, Curator of the PALABRA Archive in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division) Following its annual National Hispanic Heritage Month tradition, the Hispanic Reading Room in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division (LAC&E) announces the digital release of 50 new streaming audio recordings in the PALABRA …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World