Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors participating in the 2012 National Book Festival. The 2012 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held on Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23, 2012, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Renowned singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt remembers her father, a legend of the Broadway stage, whose papers have joined the collections at the Library of Congress.
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating.
Oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.
The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.
