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A Novel Approach: The Library in Fiction

Posted by: Erin Allen

(The following is a story written by Abby Yochelson, reference specialist in English and American Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, for the January-February 2014 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. You can download the issue in its entirety here.)  From murder to alien attack, the Library of Congress has provided novelists with …

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Gateway to Knowledge Guest Post #16

Posted by: Erin Allen

This is the 16th in a series of guest posts by Abigail Van Gelder, who with her husband, Josh, is journeying across the country on the Library’s “Gateway to Knowledge” traveling exhibition: It’s hard to believe that we have reached stop #30 with the Gateway to Knowledge Tour.  We have rolled into 13 states now, …

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NT2 Goes 'Inside the Library of Congress'

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The DVD for “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” isn’t released until Tuesday, May 20, but we here at one of the chief locations in the film managed to get our hands on a copy. The two-disc collectors’ edition and the Blu-Ray edition include a bonus feature titled “Inside the Library of Congress,” and I have …

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More Facts Behind the NT2 Fiction

Posted by: Matt Raymond

By now, millions have seen the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building on-screen in “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” But most of them probably don’t know that the Library was represented in the movie in some even more subtle but no less important ways. For instance, when the filmmakers sought to portray the forensic techniques behind the …

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Meanwhile, About Those Abraham Lincoln Inauguration Photos

Posted by: Matt Raymond

It was an entirely happy coincidence this week that we announced both the Flickr pilot project and an amazing photographic discovery on exactly the same day. A trio of images, previously thought to have been picturing different events, have been confirmed to be photographs from Abraham Linclon’s second inauguration as president on March 4, 1865. …

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'National Treasure 2' Opens, Library Gets 10 Minutes of Fame

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Unless you’ve been living on Mars, you’re probably aware that “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” opened today in theaters. And even then, I suspect that the little green men have also been inundated with “NT2” ads and media hoopla beamed in their general direction. I’ve already seen it twice, and although I’ll leave the film …

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‘Gates-Crashing’ the Library of Congress

Posted 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 …