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A New Web Guide from The Library of Congress: Poetry of September 11

This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The guide is divided into the following sections: + Print Publications + Online Resources +++ Selected Indi...

Wordless Wednesday - The Other Side

Anti-Suffrage Headquarters, about 1915Courtesy Library of Congress More Wordless Wednesday: Wordless Wednesday - Women's History in Pictures Wordless Wednesday around About.com See more Wordless Wednesday images on the Net Related articles: Women's Suffrage - What You Need to Know A...

Library of Congress Launches Weblog Aggregation Page

Library of Congress Opens Historic Newspaper API

How far back do your newspaper's online archives go? The U.S. Library of Congress has a database of thousands of newspapers dating back to the 1800s. In the case of over 150 of the papers, there are also digitized, searchable pages. And it's all available via its new Chronicling America API (tech...

Comedic Legend Carl Reiner at the Library of Congress

Carl Reiner - comedic icon whose most recent movies include his portrayal of Sal Bloom in Ocean's Twelve - will speak at the Library of Congress at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, October 26, 2009 as part of the Books & Beyond author series sponsored by the Library's Center for the Book. The event, w...

The Library of Congress and its 700 Terabytes of Data (and Growing Fast)

From the Article: So far, the library has a total of 700 [50 million individual files] terabytes of data. But because of copyright issues, only 200 of those are available on the Web. [Snip] At the Library of Congress, the numbers can be mind-boggling. Experts estimate they have more than 120 mill...