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· Digital Preservation Grants
The Library has awarded more than $14.9 million to several institutions as part
of a program to identify, collect and preserve digital materials.
· New Collections Online
Newly available online from the Library of Congress:
sheet music from the Civil War ...
newspaper photos from World War I ...
and an expansion of the "Meeting of Frontiers" English-Russian site.
· Katherine Dunham Collection
A new Library online collection focuses on the career of the prominent groundbreaking
dancer-choreographer.
The Library's extensive concert series continues with
17th- and 18th-century French Grand Motet from the choral and instrumental group Concert Spirituel Nov. 9; and
noted flute player Tom Mauchahty-Ware and a group from the Kiowa and Comanche nations in a concert
of American Indian music Nov. 17.
A new book from the Library showcases pioneering color work by photographers
of the 1930s and 1940s, forming an extensive pictorial record of American life
from the Great Depression to the World War II era.
Read about it or
order it online.
The unique materials of the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room include books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, title pages, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
Author John Norton Moore discussed his widely-praised book,
"Solving the War Puzzle," at the Library June 30.
