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Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library’s mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. By the time voters went to the polls in November, analysts in the Library’s Congressional Research Service (CRS) were hard at work researching the key public …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, Copyright, Law Library, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Baseball is certainly on the minds of sports enthusiasts as Opening Day is today. And, the Washington’s Nationals join most Major League Baseball teams in kicking off the season. Washington, D.C. actually has a long and storied baseball history. Formed in the late 19th century, the District’s teams have used both the names “Nationals” and …
Posted in: Collections, History, Photos, Washington DC
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
Good news, Washington baseball fans: the Washington Nationals come home today, closing out their pre-season schedule against the New York Yankees. Today will also mark the inaugural Presidents Race at the ballpark for the 2013 season, and the first appearance of a fifth presidential runner, President William Howard Taft. Those who have not had the …
Posted in: History, Newspapers, Photos, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium turned Grand Ole Opry for a night last Wednesday, as members of the Country Music Association (CMA) took to the stage to sing their hits. Bob DiPiero returned to host the latest installment of the CMA Songwriters Series, which this time featured Ronnie Milsap, Loretta Lynn “Lorrie” Morgan and …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Concerts, Events, Music, Pic of the Week, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
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
The Library of Congress exhibition “The Civil War in America” and Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey continued to make the news last month. Edward Rothstein toured the exhibition for The New York Times. “This is one reason the Library of Congress exhibition ‘The Civil War in America,’ which opened late last year in honor of the …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Civil War, Exhibitions, News, Newspapers, Washington DC
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 …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, LC Web site, Libraries, National Book Festival, News, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Danny Kaye was many things and, at the same time, a one and only: a live performer who combined comedy, song and dance in an utterly unique way; a celebrity humanitarian, one of the first; an actor with big box-office hits; a conductor of classical music who couldn’t read a note. A Library of Congress …
Posted in: Collections, Events, Exhibitions, Music, Washington DC