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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
The author Pat Mora has a word for it: Bookjoy. If you’re a lover of books, you won’t have to look that up in a dictionary – you’ll just know, instinctively, what it is. But where were you when you first experienced the joy of books? Odds are it was on your mom’s, dad’s or …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, LC Web site, Libraries, Poetry, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Jason Steinhauer, program specialist in the Library’s John W. Kluge Center.) Author Marie Arana is a writer-at-large for the Washington Post and former editor-in-chief of Book World, as well member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. Her latest book, a biography of Simon Bolívar, was extensively researched …
Posted in: Books, Events, History, Kluge Center, Libraries, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Authors and poets Margaret Atwood, Marie Arana, Taylor Branch, Don DeLillo, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Paterson and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will be among more than 100 writers speaking at the 13th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival, on Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Events, LC Web site, National Book Festival, Podcasts, Poetry, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The other day at roller derby practice, the subject of women and baseball came up. Okay, to be fair, my teammates may have just been quoting lines from the movie “A League of Their Own,” which was recently inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. But, nonetheless, with baseball season upon us, it’s …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Film, History, LC Web site, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
Mark Dimunation stands in a vault near the rare-book reading room and eyes a dozen volumes on a half-filled shelf, each bearing a small green ribbon. “It’s been a little slow,” says Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, as he scans the titles. The books all were drawn from the “Thomas …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Collections, Exhibitions, History, Libraries, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
You’ve heard, no doubt, about the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, which was destroyed in a fire back in antiquity. (There are still debates about who torched it and why. We’ll probably never know.) You may also have heard that the national library of Egypt – the Bibliotheca Alexandrina – was rebuilt in an architecturally …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, Libraries, Preservation, Science, Technology, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville’s tale of high-seas adventure, heroic determination and the power of man, has been heralded as one of the greatest novels in the English language. Now, perhaps it can be given the same commendation in picture writing. 🙂 🙁
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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
There’s news on two fronts for you book-lovers out there: first, the 13th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held on the National Mall between 9th and 14th Streets on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 from noon to 5:30 p.m., rain …
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Posted by: Erin Allen
President Barack Obama next week will again take the oath of office on the Bible, drawn from the Library of Congress collections, that President Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration more than 150 years ago. Obama took the oath on the Lincoln Bible at his first inauguration, in 2009. On Monday, the small, burgundy …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Books, Capitol Hill, Collections, Congress, Events, Manuscripts, News, Washington DC