Snow Closing Library’s Public Spaces Today at 3:30

In accordance with the Office of Personnel Management’s directive closing the federal government two hours early today, the Library will close all public spaces (exhibits, etc.) and reading rooms at 3:30 p.m. (As Congress is in session, the La Follette Congressional Reading Room will be open.  The Law Library Reading Room will also be open pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 138.)

Employees who reported to work should be dismissed two hours earlier than their normal departure time from work.   The two-hour early dismissal does not apply to emergency employees or employees who are teleworking today.

BREAKING NEWS: Hawk Rescued from Main Reading Room

A hawk that became trapped about a week ago in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building has been safely captured.  I will update this post a little later with details and images (and possibly video). UPDATE, noon EST: Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library’s weekly staff newsletter, The Gazette, provided …

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Elizabeth Ridgway: A Colleague, a Friend, an Inspiration

Winston Churchill is widely quoted (although perhaps apocryphally) as having said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”  But there are some whose living is also rife with giving. Such was the case with Elizabeth Ridgway.  This remarkable woman, the Library’s director of Educational Outreach, passed …

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