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The Center for the Book is sponsoring the program as part of its Books & Beyond author series, in collaboration with the Prints &...

The Poet Laureate suggests authors to read in the literary series and plans other special literary events during the reading season. Two...

Jefferson originally had written the phrase “our fellow subjects.” But he apparently changed his mind. Heavily scrawled over the word...

This morning in the Library of Congress Madison Building, in a ground-floor computer area, there was a discharge of the gas-based...

Fifty-two pieces of furniture by John Shearer are known to exist; 20 of these are currently on exhibit at the Daughters of the American...

The center provides leadership for 52 affiliated state centers for the book (including the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin...

The site also offers links to webcasts of these events and asks readers to talk about what they have seen and heard. Since its creation...

Whether taking pictures from the air or on the ground, these photographers endured enemy action and harsh conditions to capture the...

2011 Federal Library Technician of the Year Leanna Bush, library technician, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense,...

Shaffer. The names of the winners will remain on permanent display in the FEDLINK offices at the Library of Congress. Federal libraries...

One interviewee worked for Confederate President Jefferson Davis, as did his father and grandfather. These are fragments of history and...

Lawrence Kramer, distinguished professor of English and music at Fordham University, discusses “The Virtuoso Schubert.” Friday, March 15,...

“Some worried about the after-effects. Some wondered about how it might affect the mid-term elections. And others pointed out that the...

A disgruntled minister threatened to riddle the screen with shotgun holes if the film was shown. Undaunted, viewers voted overwhelmingly...

he Packard Campus is home to more than 6 million collection items, including nearly 3 million sound recordings. It provides staff support...

the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. Burns has been writing, directing and...

Largey's research on major ethnographers will take place principally in the Library’s Manuscripts Division and its Recorded Sound...

All genres of films will be shown, ranging from Tom Mix westerns and a Bobby Ray comedy to an Andy Gump animation and actuality film of a...

Also, in partnership with the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington, the library began a monthly support group for...

Friday, Sept. 6 (7:30 p.m.) “School of Rock” (Paramount, 2003) Fired from his band and hard up for cash, rock guitarist and vocalist...