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Our Next Theme Night Is... Discovery Night on April 3!

March 26, 2025

Webinar on April 9! Dun & Bradstreet 1876: American Businesses at the Centennial

March 26, 2025

Celebrate Japanese Culture with Family Day on April 5

March 26, 2025

An Interview with Foreign Law Intern at the Law Library of Congress, Yu-Chen Tsai

March 26, 2025

From the National Recording Registry: “Lady Marmalade” (1974)

March 26, 2025

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• World War I: Two Soldiers’ Stories
• Ryan White and Elton John: One Stunning Photo
• The Library Turns 225!

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• Early Owners of an Eliot Algonquian Bible
• Club-Swinging for a New You!
• Valentine’s Day Plans? How about Transcribing Historic Pamphlets for Douglass Day!

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Our Next Theme Night Is… Discovery Night on April 3!
• Help Us Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival!
• The 2025 National Book Festival Website is Live!

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Looking Back at the First African American Winners of an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar
• Inside the Copyright Office’s Report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability
• Lifecycle of Copyright: 1929 Works in the Public Domain

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Tack Hit: Contextualizing the Library’s Oldest Poster
• COVID Recollections: “Documenting COVID-19: A Panel Discussion on Community-Based Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Now Available Online
• COVID Recollections: “Walls Speak and People Need to Listen” – An Interview with Dr. Heather Shirey and Dr. Todd Lawrence about the COVID-19 Street Art Archive

4 Corners of the World: International Collections at the Library of Congress

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• Greek Independence and Philhellenism at the Library of Congress
• The Modern Greek Language and the Modern Greek Collections at the Library of Congress
• The Posters of the Minjung Movement in the 1980s

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• A Close Look at Caterpillars: Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis Meets Modern Science
• Saving Captain America
• Geanie Jackson, Collection Management’s New Administrative Officer

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• AHHA Intern Spotlight: Jala Robertson
• Top Five Tips for Using the Image Viewer
• Exploring a Newspaper Title Record

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Webinar on April 9! Dun & Bradstreet 1876: American Businesses at the Centennial
• The Business Environment and the Place of the Home Economist
• The True Reformers: The Roots of Black Financial Institutions

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes Costica Bradatan
• Kluge Center Welcomes Shannon Mattern and Nelson Tebbe
• Humanistic Research and Machine Learning: Exploring Editorial Cartoons with Newspaper Navigator

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• An Interview with Foreign Law Intern at the Law Library of Congress, Yu-Chen Tsai
• An Interview with Eva Schnitzler, Foreign Law Intern
• Law Library Publishes New Report, “Peru: Civic Space Legal Framework”

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• By the People: How (and Why) to Transcribe Sheet Music
• “Good Neighbors”: An Example of Mariachi in American Popular Culture
• “The Jonathan Larson Project” Sourced from Library of Congress Collection

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Celebrate Japanese Culture with Family Day on April 5
• Capture the First Signs of Spring with Nature Drawings
• Pi: In the Sky, on Earth and at the Library of Congress

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions: January 2025
• New BARD Additions: December 2024
• New Editions on BARD November 2024

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• From the National Recording Registry: “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus (March 28 – 29, 2025)
• “The Lost World” is 100 Years Old and Still Roaring

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Community Collections Grants Spotlight: Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora: Los Pleneros de la 21
• Maya Freelon Reclaims Childhood for Enslaved Children at Historic Stagville
• Recording of CCDI’s Fall 2024 Awardee Project Celebration Now Available Online 

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Ready for Research: Announcing New Collections and Additional Digital Images
• Finding Pictures: Mid-Century Color Photography
• Finding Pictures: World War I

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: March 2025
• It’s All About the Process: An Interview with Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
• Join the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on February 14

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Learn Why We Love Primary Source Analysis in STEM Classrooms: Join us at NSTA’s Spring 2025 Conference
• Slow Down and Shift Perspective
• Teaching Resources for Women’s History Month

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Women at the Bar: “Bans on Barmaids” and Feminist Legal Strategy in the 1940s
• Made at the Library: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science with Catherine McNeur
• New “By the People” Crowdsourcing Transcription Campaign: A Journey Across Mexico in 1849: The Journals and Sketchbooks of Benajah Jay Antrim

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Unconventional Theories about the Earth’s Shape: Both Ancient and Modern
• The Oscillating Mirror that Changed Earth Science
• Virtual Orientation: GIS and Geospatial Resources