National Day of Listening shelves shopping for a gift money can't buy Nov 28, 2008
Participants receive a CD of their 40-minute interview, and all recordings are archived at the Library of Congress. The memories and thoughts recorded today won't be stored so permanently - Isay says StoryCorps simply doesn't have the staff and resources to make that happen - but the real point, he says, is to allow families to preserve the recordings for themselves. (Boston Globe)
Families collect oral histories on National Day of Listening Nov 28, 2008
StoryCorps, a non-profit organization that has recorded 23,000 oral histories in traveling booths across the USA and stored them at the Library of Congress, has set Friday as the first annual National Day of Listening. It's meant to be a time to interview a loved one and record it as a family keepsake. (USA Today)
On Black Friday, a 'National Day of Listening' Nov 26, 2008
Participants receive a CD of their 40-minute interview, and all recordings are archived at the Library of Congress. The memories and thoughts recorded Friday won t be stored so permanently Isay says StoryCorps simply doesn t have the staff and resources to make that happen but the real point, he says, is to allow families to preserve the recordings for themselves. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
AMERICAN MADE Nov 23, 2008
The evidence of this knowledge is in Waldseemueller's world map of 1507, perhaps the most valuable of the five million maps owned by the Library of Congress ... New research by John W. Hessler of the Library of Congress has made the mystery of Waldseemueller's knowledge deeper and richer. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Educator Honey heads N.Y. Hall of Science Nov 21, 2008
Friday November 21, 2008. Hall of Science President Margaret Honey. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Library of Congress Employee Forced to Wait in Cold Nov 21, 2008
Minnie Allen has worked in the Library of Congress cafeteria for 25 years, arriving each day at about 5 a.m. and opening up the cafeteria early as she waited for her shift to begin at 6. LOG IN NOT A SUBSCRIBER. (Roll Call)
Tonko gets crash course Nov 20, 2008
Receptions and dinners including an event at the Library of Congress on Sunday night and a dinner in the Capitol building's Statuary Hall on Monday give the new members a chance to mingle. Tonko said he has enjoyed meeting the other members of his freshmen class, which includes teachers, state legislators and entrepreneurs. (Albany Times Union)
Harvard celebrates Achebe, Things Fall Apart Nov 20, 2008
" There were additional conferences in Nigeria, including at Obafemi Awolowo University and Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Another is being planned for Enugu. The celebrations have also spread to Bangladesh - Dhaka University; four universities in India; the university of Toronto, Canada; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, multi-city events in South Africa, Gambia, Cameroun; and in October, one of the year's biggest intellectual splashes - the Things Fall Apart conference at London University's School of... (Guardian News, Nigeria)
Grant Provides Audio Books for Troops Nov 19, 2008
In Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions, edited by John Y. Cole, executive director for the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, the idea of producing low-cost books that could fit into fatigue pockets was developed in 1942 by Ray L. Trautman, a young Army officer who headed the Library Section. (See Sidebar). (DOD DefenseLINK)
More American Movie Epics from the ... Nov 18, 2008
In 1996, the original film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Clips from the movie can be seen . Erich von Stroheim s Greed (1924) Greed was the ambitious brainchild of the Austrian born Stroheim. It is a bleak and depressing tale of three basically decent people whose lives are destroyed by greed after one of them wins the equivalent of a $100,000 lottery. The... (Suite101.com)
Malcolm Gladwell Doesn't Think You're So Special Nov 18, 2008
The catalogers of the Library of Congress have assigned Outliers the subject headings "1. Successful People" and "2. Success," but they might have added one they used for the first book: "Context Effects (Psychology).". Outliers offers hope. (Slate)
Obama faces pressure on immigration reform Nov 17, 2008
He is only the fourth known president - and the first since Woodrow Wilson - to have a foreign parent, according to Library of Congress historian Gerard Gawalt. Yet, Obama has had conflicted feelings about immigration, according to his 2006 book, "The Audacity of Hope." He admitted to "nativist sentiments" - including a flush of patriotic resentment when Mexican flags are waved at pro-immigrant rallies - and frustration when he was forced to use a translator to speak to his car mechanic. (Boston Globe)
Wassail your way into 2009 Nov 16, 2008
On that day there will be a Lincoln Birthday Tribute and Wreath-Laying Ceremony, a Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Ceremony, and an exhibition opening at the Library of Congress. Make sure you stop by Ford's Theatre, which should be reopening for the occasion. (Boston Globe)
Capitol Visitor Center Open for Business (Almost) Nov 16, 2008
First they dug a mammoth hole in the ground between the Capitol and the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress. They barricaded the entire east side of the Capitol with a 14-foot Berlin Wall, lined with barbed wire in spots. (Fox News)
Freshen the holidays with thankful centerpieces, relays Nov 16, 2008
Pack up tapes or discs for guests in festive wrap or jewel boxes to mark the first annual National Day of Listening, planned for Nov. 28 Black Friday sponsored by StoryCorps, National Public Radio and the Library of Congress. l Pass the parcel. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
How Many Lashes Does It Take To Kill a Man? Nov 15, 2008
Photograph of a man tied to a whipping post from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. What did you think of this article. (Slate)
At 93, a Delta blues legend carries on Nov 14, 2008
Edwards unexpectedly stepped into blues history on a summer afternoon in 1942, when Library of Congress musicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax heard him playing guitar in the court square of Friars Point, Miss. Impressed by Edwards's feel and phrasing (it was the same trip on which he recorded Muddy Waters and Son House), Lomax arranged a recording session in a makeshift studio in Clarksdale, but the plan was almost undone when a tornado roared through. (Boston Globe)
NKU Students Preserve Veterans' History Nov 13, 2008
"We archive it at the school at the Special Collections and Archives. We also send it off to the Library of Congress where they catalog it and put it into the collection so it will be available for future generations to study," said Sara. The NKU Veterans History Project is through the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.. (Cincinnati Nation)
At last, they've finished the Capitol Visitor Center Nov 13, 2008
The center really began life as a better means of security screening, but plans grew and members of Congress added more office space for themselves and a tunnel to the Library of Congress in case they had to evacuate the building. Actually, today's Congresses are relative models of efficiency compared with their predecessors. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
An avant-garde film comes into focus again Nov 13, 2008
Posner, a specialist in early avant-garde and independent work, put together a proposal that drew the support of Anthology Film Archives in New York, the British Film Institute in London, the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. (Additional financing and services came from several other organizations. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A fresh perspective on service Nov 11, 2008
Organized through the Library of Congress, the project is an effort to record and gather stories from American veterans of foreign wars. Once the stories are collected on video or audio recordings, they will be stored in the Library of Congress as historic documents. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
VIDEO: Middle-schoolers collect veterans' stories to be stored in the Library of Congress Nov 11, 2008
Middle-schoolers collect veterans' stories to be stored in the Library of Congress ... Yesterday, they handed over their CDs, enclosed in small manila envelopes, on a field trip to the Veterans History Project, archived in the Library of Congress. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
A Red Arrow’s diary Nov 11, 2008
A part of the Library of Congress, the Veterans History Project has catalogued documents and interviews with some 60,000 veterans that are available to researchers. To learn more, visit. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
'Lyrics' captures Paul Simon's career Nov 10, 2008
The winner of 12 Grammys and the first Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Simon is highly regarded for a sterling songbook that has drawn parallels to the work of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. His songs can be wise, biting, mournful and romantic. (USA Today -- Life)
Day Six: Leah Coleman (8) Nov 10, 2008
She s the type of person that watches Congress live on C-SPAN and digs through Library of Congress files online to read through legislation. Even if it means researching the 169-page, 801-section Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, or HR 1424 for short. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Transgender Rights at Issue in DC Lawsuit Nov 10, 2008
WASHINGTON,DC (WUSA) ---A federal judge has ruled that the Library of Congress violated discrimination laws when it withdrew a job offer to a terrorism analyst who had applied for the position as a man but who wanted to begin work there as a woman ... Schroer and the Library of Congress differed over whether federal anti-discrimination laws covered transgender individuals, those who have changed their sex. (W-USA News, DC)
Project saves oral histories Nov 9, 2008
The recordings will be stored at the Library of Congress ... From the interview, four DVDs are made -- one for the veteran, two for the historical society, and one for the Library of Congress. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Action! A century of moviemaking in Jacksonville Nov 9, 2008
One of Norman's films, 1926's The Flying Ace - shot in Mayport and rural Arlington - has survived, archived at the Library of Congress. But his studio, like many others, couldn't survive the transition to talking movies. (Florida Times-Union)
Veterans project preserves the glory Nov 8, 2008
The First Coast program will focus on memorializing local veterans in partnership with the Library of Congress' national program, which collects memories from veterans across the country dating back to World War I. ... Community Hospice hooked up with the Library of Congress program when the hospice organization started looking for a way of showing veterans they are appreciated. (Florida Times-Union)
Get past copies of the paper Nov 7, 2008
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Telephone: 202-707-5000 Web. New York Public Library, New York, NY Telephone: 212-930-0800. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The glory of our nation Nov 4, 2008
The months of speeches, rallies, fundraising, voter registration drives, polling and enough punditry to fill the Library of Congress will come to an end -- well, the punditry will go on, as the talking heads tell us all what it is we just did to ourselves and the nation. One thing is certain: What we do today will be historic. (Fresno Bee)
PHOTOS/AUDIO: Overview of the Great Depression Nov 4, 2008
USA TODAY's Larry Webb narrates an overview of the Great Depression to historic images from the archives of the Associated Press and the Farm Security Administration collection at the Library of Congress. Posted. (USA Today -- Money)
GRAPHIC: Historic U.S. economic downturns Nov 4, 2008
Photo credits: Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) and AP.. Graphic by Robert Ahrens, George Petras and Julia Schmalz, USA TODAY.. (USA Today -- Money)
US polls: 'Oh what a long strange trip it has been' Nov 4, 2008
As Obama and his campaign reflect on this, well might they muse over a line from a song (Truckin' in the Grateful Dead album American Beauty) that is now recognized by th 00004000 e United States Library of Congress as a national treasure. Mulling about the vicissitudes of life on the road, the Deadheads sang: "Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me; Other times, I can barely see/ Lately it occurs to me ...What a long, strange trip it's been.". (India Times, India)
Pray for election Nov 2, 2008
The first Supreme Court Justice who knew, more than anyone the meaning of the Constitution, John Jay said: "28 Feb 1797: "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"Official Library of Congress statement: ". both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, non-polemical... (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
More Business Stories Technology Headlines Like never before, US voters plug into power of the Internet Nov 2, 2008
It's all aggregated in one place," Sifry added. There's also Thomas, the mother-of-all-websites at thomas.loc.gov, which is run by the US Library of Congress and tracks all legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives. Think a candidate may be stretching the truth? Try politifact.com, a site run by Congressional Quarterly magazine and a Florida newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, which checks the accuracy of statements made on the campaign trail with its "Truth-O-Meter. " There's also... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Exhibits seek to teach sighted about blind world Nov 1, 2008
The service is provided through the Library of Congress. Materials include books printed in Braille, audio books and a movie collection of descriptive movies, which the library shows periodically. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Several famous and interesting people buried in foothill cemeteries Nov 1, 2008
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, DeYoung Museum, California State Library and numerous other museums, galleries and private print collectors own large selections of Surendorf prints. Surendorf died of cancer in May 1979 and wrote in his Union Democrat column, two months prior, "I'm fighting like hell.". (The Union Democrat)
Russian Journalists Discover Power of Public Access Channels and the First Amendment: Full Disclosure Network Special Oct 31, 2008
The Russian journalists' tour in the United States was sponsored by the Library of Congress "Open World" program and facilitated by the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles ... Ms. Mariya Ramazanovna Abubakarova, Chief Editor, Grozny City Newspaper * Ms. Kseniya Aleksandrovna Anufriyeva, Editor, Commentator, Mir Television Station * Ms. Tamara Bessmertnaya, Senior Editor Almazny Krai Television * Mr. Dimitriy Leonidovich Sokolov, Deputy Chief Editor, Editorial Board Ryazan News * Ms.... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
CNN rejected Obama ad; FOXNEWS not asked... Oct 29, 2008
I asked the Library of Congress where and when Khrushchev made his "small doses" statement. The Library reported: "We have searched the Legislative Reference Service files, checked all the standard reference works on quotations by Khrushchev, and consulted with the Slavic division of the Library of Congress, the Department of State, and the US Information Agency, in an attempt to determine the authenticity of this quotation. From none of these sources were we able to produce evidence that... (The Drudge Report)
StoryCorps on quest to compile Native oral histories Oct 28, 2008
And all the StoryCorps recordings get added to the American Folklife Center archives at the Library of Congress. Some have also appeared in print in the book, "Listening Is an Act of Love -- a Celebration of American Life by the StoryCorps Project.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Halloween Facts: Costumes, History, Urban Legends, More Oct 28, 2008
In addition to sacrificing animals to the gods and gathering around bonfires, Celts often wore costumes probably animal skins to confuse spirits, perhaps to avoid being possessed, according to the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress. By wearing masks or blackening their faces, Celts are also thought to have impersonated dead ancestors. (National Geographic)
Constant comment Oct 26, 2008
"I have acquired a phony, spruce disillusioned tone - but it's only Washington," Lowell informs Bishop as he goes about his poetry-consultant duties at the Library of Congress in 1948. Bishop, teaching at the University of Washington in 1966, describes her students to Lowell: "The boys are all over six feet - some girls are, too - and the girls have huge legs." She had been warned by a friend "about the bosom in the front row - but not about the large bare knee that starts creeping up over the... (Boston Globe)
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia Oct 25, 2008
The works belong to some 130 collections worldwide from such prestigious institutions as the MoMA, Tate Britain, the Muse dOrsay, the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Washington Library of Congress, the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, the Arxiu Histric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, the Museu Nacional dHistria de Catalunya (MNAC), the Architects' Institute of Catalonia (COAC) and the Fundacin Foto Colectania. Standing out among the almost 250 authors represented in... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Reporter's Notebook: Libraries of Congress Oct 24, 2008
WASHINGTON Each year, hundreds of thousands of people stream into the Library of Congress to enjoy the roughly 32 million books and 61 million manuscripts in three buildings across the street from the U.S. Capitol ... But despite the impressive grandeur of the Library of Congress, I prefer two congressional libraries inside the U.S. Capitol a little better ... The first is the original Library of Congress in the Senate wing of the Capitol, the first section of the building workers completed. (Fox News)
Rehnquist Papers on 'Roe v. Wade' Will Be Made Public Soon Oct 23, 2008
"We were interested. Any Supreme Court justice's papers would be a coup." But it is no surprise that the family bypassed the Library of Congress in favor of Hoover. Rehnquist was furious at the Library of Congress for its handling of Justice Thurgood Marshall's papers, which were released immediately upon his death in January 1993. (Law.com)
Briefs (Oct. 23) Oct 22, 2008
They will be interviewed by a local historian, and their oral histories will be stored at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. The United States Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000 in order to collect memories, accounts, and documents of veterans from World War I through the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Needham Tab, MA)
Imagine That: Letter to my college-age daughter Oct 22, 2008
According to the Library of Congress, the group successfully pressured President Woodrow Wilson, members of Congress and state legislators to support passage of a 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women nationwide the right to vote. By the time suffrage was won in 1920, 168 NWP activists had served time in prison or jail. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Haydn gets a celestial rendition Oct 20, 2008
In fact, they have toured once in Europe, and were giving only their second concert together in the United States, following by a day the first, the same program at the Library of Congress. Yet the young superstar fortepianist and 12 singers of the Belgian choral ensemble seemed to have the same impulse, musically speaking, at every moment. (Boston Globe)
Augustana Church Reflects On Historic Film Oct 20, 2008
"A Time For Burning" was recently selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. Copyright 2008 by. (7 KETV Omaha)
BUILDING A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Oct 19, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008 Last Update: 06:55 AM EDT. NORA ROBERTS HAS WRITTEN 170 NOVELS OF ROMANCE AND MORE. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Donora to remember killer smog this week Oct 19, 2008
Following the opening will be a symposium at the Donora Municipal Building, 603 Meldon Ave. Those attending will include representatives of The Library of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Environmental Protection and Washington County officials. California University of Pennsylvania will feature student art in the Art Space, located across from the museum. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Wang Wong's 'Princess' paves way on Internet Oct 18, 2008
-- Broke through on American independent film scene with "Chan Is Missing" (1982), a landmark film shot in Chinatown and now in the Library of Congress registry of films. Subsequent films include "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart," "The Joy Luck Club," "Smoke," "Blue in the Face," "Chinese Box," "Anywhere But Here," "Maid in Manhattan," "Last Holiday," "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Reporter's Notebook: Walk Through History Oct 16, 2008
A left at the main doors leading to the House chamber takes me through the center of the Capitol, toward the Rotunda and past the original Library of Congress now into a suite of offices used by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. A right at the Ohio Clock just outside the Senate chamber leads to more steps. (Fox News -- Politics)
Exploring the Universe by Touch Oct 15, 2008
Touch the Invisible Sky (written with Simon Steel and Doris Daou) is funded by NASA, which is distributing free copies to U.S. schools and training centers for the blind, state libraries with astronomy collections, and the Library of Congress. Noreen Grice Bibliography. (Suite101.com)
Perfect world would bypass both Obama and McCain Oct 14, 2008
"The quote from "Alexander Tyler" is very likely fictitious. His name was actually "Lord Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler," and he was a Scottish historian/professor who wrote several books in the late 1700s and early 1800s."However, there is no record of "The Fall of the Athenian Republic" or "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic" in the Library of Congress. "Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University is not the source of any of the statistics or the text attributed to him.". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Open Your Art To Me Oct 13, 2008
Her work is in the Library of Congress print collection and in the Achenbach graphic arts collection at San Francisco's Fine Arts Museums. See her work at. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Net help on Columbus Day, market collapse Oct 13, 2008
A Library of Congress online exhibition examining Columbus' voyages and the impact they had on Europe and the Americas. Columbus Journal Extracts. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Today's Photos Oct 13, 2008
The two participated in recordings of flood stories that will be kept online and in the UI Main Library and the Library of Congress. The Hammes' story has a happy ending - none of the mobile homes flooded. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Officials, UI students document flood stories Oct 13, 2008
Officials said the transcripts of the 40-minute interviews will be posted online and archived at the UI Libraries and Library of Congress. StoryCorps, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that chronicles people's history orally, recorded 16 interviews. (Daily Iowan, IA)
More of this story Oct 11, 2008
Photo courtesy of Crown Publishing and Library of Congress, Prints graphs Division. by Ryan Vaillancourt. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Union Station turns 100 Oct 8, 2008
n this photo released by the Union Station Redevelopment Corp. and Library of Congress, Union Station s main hall is seen circa 1930 s. ... A 1953 train wreck is seen at Union Station in Washington in this photograph released by the Union Station Redevelopment Corp. and Library of Congress. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Historians ponder Lincoln's legacy, lessons we can learn Oct 8, 2008
By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY. At the Lincoln Address Memorial in Gettysburg: Historian James M. McPherson says the president's speech "will live forever.". (USA Today -- Life)
Here's where the money is Oct 8, 2008
With time off for the Great Depression, the great Italian fiddles now made their way to surgeons in Cleveland, psychiatrists in Los Angeles, not to mention the Library of Congress, Smithsonian and Corcoran Gallery, whose collections alone turned Washington into Strad Central. But that era ended too. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Abe Lincoln's anger revealed in Civil War letter Oct 7, 2008
Getty / Library of Congress President Abraham Lincoln was trained as a lawyer and normally maintained a sober demeanor but his temper is revealed in a newly surfaced letter. . (MSNBC -- Politics)
