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Archive: January 2011 (7 Posts)

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BREAKING NEWS: Hawk Rescued from Main Reading Room

Posted by: Matt Raymond

A hawk that became trapped about a week ago in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building has been safely captured.  I will update this post a little later with details and images (and possibly video). UPDATE, noon EST: Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library’s weekly staff newsletter, The Gazette, provided …

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Time for Another Hawk Update

Posted by: Matt Raymond

(Previous posts from last week are here and here.) The hawk is still in the Main Reading Room. The rescue team found a trap that she was attracted to (which is good news for humane capture); however, the hawk had swooped in and took just enough of the bait late Sunday afternoon and was able …

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Watching Our Researchers Like a Hawk

Posted by: Matt Raymond

You know that poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Allan Poe?  The one where a guy holes himself up in a room surrounded by books, only to be pestered by a bird looking over his shoulder?  Yeah, that one. Well, a few of our researchers might have been getting a similar feeling lately, but on …

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There’s No Place Like (a New) Homepage

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Starting Monday, Jan. 10, our homepage at www.LOC.gov–our virtual “front door,” if you will–is getting a new look. Periodically, the Library changes its homepage (and other parts of its site, of course) to make it more useful and more responsive to users’ needs.  This is one of our most ambitious refreshes yet, and many of …

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Elizabeth Ridgway: A Colleague, a Friend, an Inspiration

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Winston Churchill is widely quoted (although perhaps apocryphally) as having said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”  But there are some whose living is also rife with giving. Such was the case with Elizabeth Ridgway.  This remarkable woman, the Library’s director of Educational Outreach, passed …