Map Event Now Webcast

The webcast from Monday?s big Waldseem?Map event is now up. (RealMedia streaming file, 36:59.) The previous link has also been updated. UPDATE: It has been suggested that the link to the webcast is broken, but it doesn?t appear so on my machine. Anyone else having trouble with it?

The Merry Month of May

It’s a busy day and a busy month at the Library of Congress! Not only is today Law Day, but it marks the kickoff of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. We’ve issued a news release detailing how the Library is observing the month, and launched a Web site gathering several related Library collections and resources together …

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May Day? Law Day!

Harper Lee?s famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, begins with a quote by the English essayist Charles Lamb: ?Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.? Perhaps Lee and/or Lamb was being ironic, but May 1, which is celebrated as Law Day, puts that quotation in a very literal and meaningful context. The theme of Law Day …

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Library in the News, 4/30/07

A few AP photos are starting to move from the event that ended barely an hour ago, in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel formally transferred the 1507 Waldseem?Map to the Library of Congress and the American people (represented by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer). You can see them here, here, here, here, here and here, …

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