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A New Copyright Blog — and a Challenge

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

The following is a guest post by Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office. See the new U.S. Copyright Office blog at http://blogs.loc.gov/copyrightdigitization/ Help Wanted: Have you ever attempted to build an electronic index and searchable database of a complex and diverse collection of 70 million imaged historical records? …

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A Paycheck, and a Gut-Check

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

For poets, verse is their work. But for poet Philip Levine, work is the stuff of poetry. Levine — named the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012 today by the Librarian of Congress — has been known for decades as the bard of the “working stiffs,” the people who actively toil for their …

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New Laurels for the 16th Laureate

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

Kay Ryan, the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States (2008-2010) and a person of wry wisdom, today won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Hear, hear! Specifically, the prize was for her book “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” (Grove Press).  The Pulitzer people described the book this way: “a body of work …

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The Library Heads SXSW

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Butch Lazorchak of the Library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program brings us this guest post on the Library’s involvement in one of the most important conferences for the creative and technology communities: The South By Southwest Conference, being held in Austin, Texas, March 11-20, 2011,  has rapidly become one of the most influential …

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BREAKING NEWS: Hawk Rescued from Main Reading Room

Posted by: Matt Raymond

A hawk that became trapped about a week ago in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building has been safely captured.  I will update this post a little later with details and images (and possibly video). UPDATE, noon EST: Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library’s weekly staff newsletter, The Gazette, provided …

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Time for Another Hawk Update

Posted by: Matt Raymond

(Previous posts from last week are here and here.) The hawk is still in the Main Reading Room. The rescue team found a trap that she was attracted to (which is good news for humane capture); however, the hawk had swooped in and took just enough of the bait late Sunday afternoon and was able …

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Watching Our Researchers Like a Hawk

Posted by: Matt Raymond

You know that poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Allan Poe?  The one where a guy holes himself up in a room surrounded by books, only to be pestered by a bird looking over his shoulder?  Yeah, that one. Well, a few of our researchers might have been getting a similar feeling lately, but on …