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• Wise Guide to loc.gov
  Obama the poet, advice to the president-elect, awards and letters
• Webcasts from the Library
  An evening with renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe
• Places in the News
  Headline locations from the Library's map collections
• Today in History | January 2
  Travel back in time through American Memory

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• National Book Festival
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• Thomas Jefferson
• The Great Depression
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution

|| News from the Library  ||

Announcement: Special Library holiday hours through January  More...

• 25 Films Named to National Film Registry
  2008 additions include Deliverance, In Cold Blood, The Terminator
• Obama To Take Oath on Lincoln Bible
  President-elect will use same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861
• Inaugural Sermons, Orations Sought
  Library to preserve sermons, orations on Obama inauguration
• Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot
  Milestones, successes cited in photo-sharing project
• Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit Opens Feb. 12
  "With Malice Toward None" celebrates 200th birthday of America's 16th president

• More news and upcoming events

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• Audio-Visual Conservation
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• Digital Preservation
  Collecting and preserving digital knowledge for future generations

|| Did You Know? ||

Did you know that on Christmas Eve, 1851, the Library of Congress, originally housed in the Capitol, caught fire for the second time that century, destroying 55,000 volumes?

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