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Since its inception in 2004, NDIIPP has grown from an experimental program into a true partnership of concerned organizations working together to sustain access to digital information that is critical to scholarship and cultural heritage nationwide. 1 The seeds for NDIIPP were initially sown in a report issued in July 2000 by the National Research Council titled LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. The topics treated in this issue include, more specifically: * new organizations and missions and new perspectives on sustainability; * preservation of specific types of content, including Web content, cultural heritage and special collections, ejournals, and geospatial information, and the format and metadata standards to support ingest, management, and migration of digital...
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U.S. Supreme Court LIBRARY OF CONGRESS v. SHAW, 478 U.S. 310 (1986) 478 U.S. 310
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ET AL. v. SHAW CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF AP...
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JAKARTA, August 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today in Jakarta, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, The Asia Foundation, and the United States Library of Congress' Regional Office for Southeast Asia signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a joint books program. In the first two years of the program, The Asia Foundation will contribute over 50,000 books worth approximately US $2 million (Rp 18 billion) to the libraries of six state Islamic universities. This collaboration will foster the exchange of scholarly information between the academic community in Indonesia and graduate programs focusing on Indonesian studies in the United States. This shared information will improve access to high-quality Indonesian research for scholars in the United States, assist Indonesians in keeping abrea...
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS James H. Billi...
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Forrest Gump," the multiple-Oscar winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as an American innocent navigating the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s, was named to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry on Wednesday, along with 24 other films deemed worthy of preservation at the library's conservation facility in Culpeper, Va.
This year's list spans more than 80 years, with "Forrest Gump" being the most recent title and "A Cure for Pokeritis," a silent comedy made in 1912, being the oldest. A number of this year's inductees have to do with social issues, from the documentaries "The Negro Soldier" and "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment" to the child-labor melodrama "The Cry of the Children" and "The Lost Weekend," starring Ray Milland as a man battling alcoholism.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Library of Congress have established the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA- Library of Congress chair in Astrobiology at the Library's scholarly research organization, the John W. Kluge Center in Washington. The chair is named for the late Nobel Laureate and founding director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Baruch "Barry" Blumberg.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/ prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)
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WASHINGTON - As crackly recordings of fox trot tunes poured from speakers at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, Harry Connick sat motionless except for a single index finger that pounded out a swinging beat. He was rapt.
This is all completely new to me," he said, marveling. "I'm going to go home and play this stuff for my wife and kids.
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE BRANCH HOLDS A HEARING ON THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP ...
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Karen and I are determined to get things right, and that means that we have been willing to work closely with, in our case, the staff of the Library of Congress to arrange materials and assist in identifying and presenting them in accurate and hopefully useful ways.5 The couple initially considered multiple locations as potential repositories for the composer's materials including the University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library; the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; and the Library of Congress's Music Division in Washington, DC. Another advantage was that Jon Newsom, then chief of the Music Division, proposed several attractive initiatives relating to Reynolds's music; indeed, in recent years, the library has hosted multi...