October 2005 - Vol. 64, No. 10
Creativity Across America: The Song of America Tour
Cover Story
The "Creativity Across America" project is launched with an 11-city concert tour
featuring acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson.
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INTERNS IDENTIFY RARITIES IN COPYRIGHT DEPOSITS
College interns worked to process hundreds of gems of creativity among the Library's copyright deposits during a special summer program. -
LIVING LEGEND
Famed blues musician B.B. King was honored as a Living Legend by the Library in a Sept. 12 ceremony. -
THEATER MUSIC
The Music Division has acquired manuscripts from legendary American musical theater composers Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. -
MILITARY MAPS
A new collection of Civil War maps, some used by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, are now available on the Library's American Memory Web site. -
CONTEMPORARY CARTOGRAPHY
"Maps in Our Lives" is a new exhibition in recognition of the Library's Geography and Map Division and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. -
SUCCESS OF SOCIETIES
Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling book "Guns, Germs and Steel," initiated the new Kislak lecture series at the Library with a talk on his new book. -
NEW IN PRESERVATION
Dianne van der Reyden has been named director for preservation at the Library.