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Archive: May 2007 (31 Posts)

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Future of Bibliographic Control Meeting

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The Library of Congress-led Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control has its next meeting Wednesday, May 9, in Chicago. While registration closed last week, you can go to the working group’s Web site here to see where the discussion is going. The background paper for the Chicago meeting is here (PDF). A final …

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Giving Back

Posted by: Matt Raymond

It’s an oft-cited fact that the Library of Congress takes into its collections a staggering 10,000 items every single day. So it’s nice to be able to talk, about what we try to give back, at least in the broadest sense of the term. Today I received the following report from Library Services (the largest …

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Virtual MacDowell

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The names ?Edward and Marian MacDowell? might not be immediately recognizable to a wide swath of the population. But try some of these names on for size: Aaron Copland, Willa Cather, Leonard Bernstein, Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, James Baldwin, and Thornton Wilder. Those are but a handful of the luminaries who spent some of their …

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A Budget for the Future

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Another busy day! I spent this morning in a hearing at the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, during which Librarian of Congress James Billington and our Chief Operating Officer, Jo Ann Jenkins, testified on the Library’s budget priorities for Fiscal Year 2008, which begins Oct. 1, 2007. The Librarian discussed requests including …

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Map Event Now Webcast

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The webcast from Monday’s big Waldseemüller Map event is now up. The previous link has also been updated. UPDATE: It has been suggested that the link to the webcast is broken, but it doesn’t appear so on my machine. Anyone else having trouble with it? UPDATE: The broken link has been corrected.

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A Note to Commenters

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Several commenters in recent days have been attempting to post off-topic comments in the form of a hack that is designed to circumvent certain copyright protections. These comments will not be approved, and any commenters who persist in this manner are subject to being banned from commenting. (See the disclaimer found above the comments box.) …