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A Jefferson Book, Rediscovered in Law Library

Posted by: Erin Allen

A tiny, handwritten “T” at the bottom of page 113 offered a clue that this book – long part of the Law Library collections – needed a new home: the permanent exhibition of Thomas Jefferson’s library. Every four months, Anna Bryan and other catalogers in the U.S./Anglo Division’s Rare Materials Section work on an ongoing …

Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Cataloging, Collections, Curators, History, Law Library, Libraries, Washington DC

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The Library to the Rescue

Posted by: Erin Allen

(The following is a story in the January/February 2015 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) The Library of Congress has a long tradition of assisting other institutions in preserving their collections. Nearly a century after the Library of Congress collection was destroyed by a …

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