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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Ever wonder, while watching a film made from a novel you’ve known and loved, what the author of the book thought about that movie? Whether they thought it was true to their vision? Whether they were annoyed at what landed on the cutting-room floor? Four great modern novelists will share a dialogue on just that …
Posted in: Books, Education, Events, Film, National Book Festival, Poetry, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
In this final installment of our Letters About Literature spotlight, we feature the Level 3 National Honor-winning letter of Riddhi Sangam of Saratoga, Calif., who wrote to Jhumpa Lahiri, author of “The Namesake.” Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing program that asks young people in grades 4 through 12 to write to an author …
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress had two major announcements in July, featuring well-known public figures, that garnered several headlines. Billy Joel was named the next recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Stories ran in Rolling Stone, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Today Show. Joel was also featured as …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Collections, LC Web site, Manuscripts, News, Newspapers, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building opened to the public in 1897. Hailed by a guidebook as a “gorgeous and palatial monument to its [America’s] national sympathy and appreciation of literature, science and art,” the construction of the edifice was a feat in and of itself – more than 15 years of postponements, major …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Manuscripts, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The sun truly never sets on collecting at the Library of Congress. At any given hour, somewhere on the planet, an employee is acquiring material to add to the world’s largest library. Scattered across 11 time zones, from Brazil to Indonesia, the Library’s six field offices acquire hard- to-get publications from developing nations for its own collections and …
Posted in: Cataloging, Collections, Libraries, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
Most people know the United States Coast Guard as a military branch that provides local maritime safety and law enforcement, with service men and women patrolling America’s shorelines and answering distress calls after boating accidents. However, the USCG has incorporated a number of functions throughout its more than 224-year career as the “oldest, continuously serving …
Posted in: Collections, History, Manuscripts, Today in History, Veterans History Project
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is an article written by Rosemary Girard, intern in the Library of Congress Office of Communications, for the Library staff newsletter, The Gazette.) After weeks of researching, curating and unearthing some of the Library of Congress’s millions of artifacts, members of the Junior Fellows Program had a chance to present their most interesting …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Collections, Copyright, Curators, Education, Events, Film, History, Law Library, Manuscripts, Music, Photos, Thomas Jefferson Building, Veterans History Project, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
We’re rounding out our spotlight of letters from the Letters About Literature initiative, a national reading and writing program that asks young people in grades 4 through 12 to write to an author (living or deceased) about how his or her book affected their lives. National and honor winners were announced last month. You can read the …
Posted by: Erin Allen
For most of two decades, a future president carried on an affair with a family friend. For 50 years, the love letters they wrote each other – discovered in a closet, sealed by a court order and, finally, locked in a vault at the Library of Congress for safekeeping – have been closed to the …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Events, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, Washington DC