News from the Library of Congress
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
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January 29, 2024 (24-011)2024 Supreme Court Fellows Annual Program Annual Lecture to Feature U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for the 2024 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 3:15 p.m. EST.This event will be live-streamed on the Library’s YouTube channel and the public can also register to attend in-person here. Media who would like to request...
- Date: 2024-01-29
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January 22, 2024 (24-002)Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories The Library of Congress announced today that it has launched the COVID-19 Archive Activation website, in collaboration with StoryCorps, to encourage all Americans to share their COVID-19 stories, or interview others about their pandemic experiences. Stories submitted through the Archive Activation website will be deposited into the collections of the American Folklife Center and made accessible at archive.StoryCorps.org.By creating a tool to collect and...
- Date: 2024-01-22
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January 8, 2024 (24-001)Library of Congress Expands 2024 Literacy Awards Program The Library of Congress announced today it is expanding the scope of the Literacy Awards Program in 2024 by adding two new award categories to recognize literacy organizations in the United States and abroad. Applications are being accepted from Jan. 8 to Feb.19.The Library of Congress Literacy Awards, sponsored by David M. Rubenstein since 2013, honor organizations that provide exemplary, innovative and replicable strategies...
- Date: 2024-01-08
December 2023
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December 13, 2023 (23-101)25 Films Selected for Preservation in National Film Registry Twenty-five influential films have been selected for the 2023 Library of Congress National Film Registry, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. The films are selected each year for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage.The newest selections include a diverse group of films, filmmakers and Hollywood landmarks exploring the drama of history, social justice and reform, the experiences...
- Date: 2023-12-13
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December 11, 2023 (23-A05)Holiday Schedule Dec. 2023-Jan. 2024 The following is the holiday operation schedule, including building closures, for the Library of Congress for December 2023 and early January 2024:Monday, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day)All Library buildings will be CLOSED.Monday, Jan. 1, 2024 (New Year’s Day)All Library buildings will be CLOSED.Monday, Jan. 15, 2024 (Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday)All Library buildings will be CLOSED.The Library’s public spaces and reading rooms will operate as...
- Date: 2023-12-11
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December 7, 2023 (23-099)American Archive of Public Broadcasting Preserves 2,000 'Le Show' Radio Programs This December, to mark the 40th anniversary of celebrated actor, author, director, musician, political satirist and broadcaster Harry Shearer’s weekly hour-long public radio series “Le Show,” the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston public media producer GBH, is launching the “Le Show” Collection, a publicly accessible digital archive of more than 2,000 hours of broadcasts, stretching...
- Date: 2023-12-07
November 2023
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November 28, 2023 (23-100)Library of Congress Hosts Virtual Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Cancer The Library of Congress will host its annual Cancer Moonshot panel discussion on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. Led by the Health Services Division and the Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division at the Library, the virtual event will bring together renowned international experts working on artificial intelligence for cancer screening, immunotherapy, imaging, and the ethics involved in using AI to provide their...
- Date: 2023-11-28
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November 2, 2023 (23-095)Library of Congress Hosts Premiere of "Language Is Life," an Episode from the PBS series Native America The Library of Congress will premiere one of four new episodes of the acclaimed PBS series “Native America” on Nov. 9, focused on Native people’s efforts to preserve their languages and ways of life. The film, which features Library collections, will be followed by a panel discussion on Indigenous language preservation, as part of the Library’s celebration of Native American Heritage Month.Narrated by former...
- Date: 2023-11-02
October 2023
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October 10, 2023 (23-085)Library of Congress Appoints Stephanie Stillo Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections The Library of Congress has named Stephanie Stillo as the new chief of the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Stillo, who assumed her new role on Oct. 9, joined the Library in 2016. She has served as the curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and the Aramont Library — two of the division’s notable collections.The Rare Book and Special Collections Division...
- Date: 2023-10-10
September 2023
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September 14, 2023 (23-084)American Archive of Public Broadcasting to Add New Collection: 50 Years of Programs from Journalist Bill Moyers The American Archive of Public Broadcasting announced today that it has collected more than 1,000 public television programs produced by veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers, and more than 800 of them are available to stream online. The new Bill Moyers Collection in the archive offers a look at more than 50 years of Bill Moyers’ work reporting on our times, during which he became...
- Date: 2023-09-14
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September 13, 2023 (23-079)Library of Congress Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a Danzón Class The Library of Congress joins National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations with a special danzón dance class and performance and 50 audio recordings added to its historic PALABRA Archive, which turns 80 this year. The monthlong celebration from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 highlights the culture, history and contributions of the Hispanic community to the nation.As part of the celebrations through Live at the Library,...
- Date: 2023-09-13
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September 6, 2023 (23-080)U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to Publish Anthology, Bring Poetry to National Parks as Part of Signature Project, 'You Are Here' Ada Limón’s signature project as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, “You Are Here,” will feature two major new initiatives: an anthology of commissioned nature poems and poetry installed as public art in seven national parks.“I want to champion the ways reading and writing poetry can situate us in the natural world,” Limón said. “Never has it been more urgent to feel...
- Date: 2023-09-06