Have you ever thought about what it might be like to try to walk through all of the shelves at the Library of Congress? Maybe not, but we LOC people love to mull over the sheer magnitude of this place.
You might have seen statistics here or there that have referred to somewhere in the vicinity …
Archive for July, 2007 (10 posts)
Posted in: Curators, Events, Libraries, News
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A mini-debate is breaking out among library-philes in the wake of a Wall Street Journal story about an Arizona library that has ditched the Dewey Decimal System for much broader subject headings, catering to a client�le who are apparently more browsers than researchers. An earlier article claims it to be the first library to break …
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There has been substantial public interest in a recent decision by a federal court not to forestall a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Judges that increases royalties paid by Internet radio stations, effective this coming Sunday, July 15. (By the way, I�m told �Copyright Royalty Judges� and is their preferred name, not the �Copyright Royalty …
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Bill Powers of National Journal has debuted a neat, recurring feature about how �leading figures in government, politics, and other spheres� get their information from the media. He chose Dr. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, as its first subject because he �runs America�s first great information outlet.�
From the article:
I think daily newspapers are still very …
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(Matt�s note: The Law Library of Congress is using this space to do a couple of �guest posts,� written by Andrew Weber. The following are his words.)
In the three years that I have been working at the Law Library of Congress, I have learned that its mission is �to provide research and legal information to …
Posted in: Events, News, Washington DC
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(Matt�s note: The Law Library of Congress is using this space to do a couple of �guest posts,� written by Andrew Weber. The following are his words.)
I was discussing with Dr. Bryan Bachner the other day about the presentation he gave on World Intellectual Property Day at a conference held by the Institute for Policy …
Posted in: Events, News, Washington DC
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Tomorrow (July 14, 2007) the Law Library of Congress will celebrate its 175th birthday. (You can trace its history here.) Established in 1832, it was the first distinctly created unit of the Library of Congress.
We used the Library of Congress�s 207th birthday (an odd number, I know) to launch this blog, so we thought tomorrow�s …
Posted in: Blogging, History, Libraries
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Library Journal covered the third and final public meeting of the LOC-led Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The group�s charge is to:
* Present findings on how bibliographic control and other descriptive practices can effectively support management of and access to library materials in the evolving information and technology environment
* Recommend ways in …
Posted in: Events, Libraries, News
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A partial image of page 1 of the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, with a gradient fade applied
A couple of notes about recent TV appearances, and then an on-topic digression (which is after the jump).
First of all, as previously mentioned, Dr. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was the guest July 1 on C-SPAN�s …
Posted in: Exhibitions, History, New Visitors Experience, News, Thomas Jefferson Building
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The Fourth is quickly approaching � very quickly � and the July edition of the LOC Wise Guide brings us some timely facts about hot dogs.
I don�t know about you, but it sure makes me hungry for one of those Hot Texas Wieners � from New Jersey.
Enjoy America�s 231st, everyone!
Tags: holidays, independence day, …
Posted in: History, LC Web site
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