INTERNS IDENTIFY RARITIES IN COPYRIGHT DEPOSITS
College interns worked to process hundreds of gems of creativity among the Library's copyright deposits during a special summer program.

LIVING LEGEND
Famed blues musician B.B. King was honored as a Living Legend by the Library in a Sept. 12 ceremony.

THEATER MUSIC
The Music Division has acquired manuscripts from legendary American musical theater composers Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.

COOLIDGE CONCERTS

MILITARY MAPS
A new collection of Civil War maps, some used by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, are now available on the Library's American Memory Web site.

CONTEMPORARY CARTOGRAPHY
"Maps in Our Lives" is a new exhibition in recognition of the Library's Geography and Map Division and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.

SUCCESS OF SOCIETIES
Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling book "Guns, Germs and Steel," initiated the new Kislak lecture series at the Library with a talk on his new book.

NEW IN PRESERVATION
Dianne van der Reyden has been named director for preservation at the Library.

NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR THE BOOK