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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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Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

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 …

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