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    Noel Avellana Obtera Collection E-4, Army, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Hood, Texas; Camp Casey, Korea; Fort Irwin, California.
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    Samizdat - Civil Disobedience & the Helsinki Process Gabor Demszky discussed the meaning of the Russian word "samizdat," a description of the Helsinki process as historical background of the press and subculture of samizdat, and the development of Hungarian media law since 1986 including its current implications.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2013
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    Collections Management Division: Restarting Operations During a Pandemic Preservation Directorate's Collections Management Division prioritized its workload during the pandemic in light of limited on-site staff and the need to re-evaluate processes and procedures to ensure safety and efficiency. The Collections Management Division's mission is two-pronged, to promote and provide access to the Library's collection and to manage inventory and to ensure, accuracy, security, irretrievability, and preservation of items in the collections.
    • Contributor: Martin, Matthew - Nadal, Jacob
    • Date: 2021-04-27
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    Meryle Secrest: Book Fest 07 Meryle Secrest in a presentation at the 2007 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor: Secrest, Meryle
    • Date: 2007-09-29
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    2021 Literacy Awards Winners & Best Practice Honorees This short video highlights the winners and honorees of the 2021 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Learn more about the inspiring work of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (winner of the 2021 David M. Rubenstein Prize), Parents as Teachers National Center (winner of the 2021 American Prize) and The Luminos Fund (winner of the 2021 International Prize); as well as the following 14 additional organizations...
    • Date: 2021-11-29
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    On Thin Ice: Changing Ice Cover on Polar Oceans NASA scientist Thorsten Markus shares his expertise on polar ice in a lecture at the Library of Congress. In his lecture, Markus summarizes recent observations and findings-together with pictures from Arctic and Antarctic research campaigns-and puts those results into the bigger climate-system picture. He focuses on recent changes in the Arctic and in Antarctica. Markus explains why the two hemispheres react differently to climate...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
    • Date: 2009
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    Megan Woods Collection Specialist, Army, Operation Joint Guardian, 1999- - Fort Hood, Texas; Kosovo; San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma.
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    Stacey Marie Davis Collection E-4, Army - Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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    Frederic Courtland Penfield: Last and Undervalued US Minister to Habsburg Vienna in Crisis Historian Kurt Bednar discussed the trying times of the last American ambassador to Austria-Hungary as that empire collapsed during the First World War.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2016
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    Stradivari Violas at the Library of Congress Jessica Bodner, Kikuei Ikeda, Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford and John Montgomery discuss the Library's two Stradivari violas, the 1690 "Tuscan-Medici" and the 1727 "Cassavetti."
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Exploring Invisible Traces in Historic Recordings Twentieth-century audio recordings and motion pictures are important primary source materials for both scholarly analysis and public history, but in many cases essential metadata about them have been lost. Kari Kraus will discuss a new collaborative project at the University of Maryland aimed at recovering the date and time on which a recording was made based on analysis of incidentally captured traces of small...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
    • Date: 2013
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    Memory, Experience & Imagination in Works of Lao & Hmong American Authors Writers, Kao Kalia Yang, Bryan Thao Worra and Thavisouk Phrasavath will reflect on their work before joining a larger conversation with the audience. The program presents a critical but engaging exploration of the role of memory, experience and imagination in each author's writings against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, global migration, refugees, the diaspora, and life in America. The talk...
    • Contributor: Thao Worra, Bryan - Wolfson-Ford, Ryan - Yang, Kao Kalia - Phrasavath, Thavisouk
    • Date: 2022-05-02
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    Justin Quin Martinez Collection E-6, Army, Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Georgia; South Carolina; Florida; Colorado; Alabama; Kuwait; Iraq.
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    Dramatists Guild of America 100th Birthday The U.S. Copyright Office conducted a program with members of the Dramatists Guild of America on the occasion of its 100th birthday. The program included the Guild's president, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin), Marsha Norman ('night, Mother, The Secret Garden), Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens), Gwydion Suilebhan (Anthem, Cracked), and the Guild's executive director of business affairs Ralph Sevush.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2014
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    Great Reads from Great Places: Fitting In Great Reads from Great Places: Fitting In is a panel discussion featuring Cheryl Lawton Malone, author of "Dario and the Whale" (selected by the Massachusetts Center for the Book); Jasmine Warga, author of "Other Words for Home" (selected by the Ohio Center for the Book); Susan Vaught, author of "Together We Grow" (selected by the Kentucky Center for the Book); and Alexandra Diaz, author...
    • Contributor: Smith Thornton, Lori - Volpi Woods, Sara - Diaz, Alexandra - Shaloo, Sharon - Vaught, Susan - Boozer, Don - Lawton Malone, Cheryl - Warga, Jasmine - Carr, Tracy
    • Date: 2021-09-17
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    Fragments, Discovery and Creating Knowledge Using state-of-the-art, non-invasive examination techniques, Preservation Research and Testing Division (PRTD) staff are collaborating with other library staff to learn more from the material/physical aspects of the Library's collections. PRTD has been taking non-invasive portable instruments to special collection reading rooms to work with curators and to add value to our collections by answering curatorial and researcher questions. Working with Marianna Stell in Rare...
    • Contributor: France, Fenella - Parks, Amelia
    • Date: 2022-04-25
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    Copyright Public Modernization Committee Public Meeting The Library of Congress hosted the first public meeting of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee (CPMC) on July 22, 2021. The CPMC is tasked with enhancing communication and providing a forum for the technology-related aspects of the U.S. Copyright Office's modernization initiative. The meeting included an update from Library experts on the development of the Enterprise Copyright System (ECS) and a discussion about Copyright...
    • Date: 2021-07-22
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    Hervé Tullet: 2016 National Book Festival Hervé Tullet discusses "Let's Play" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
    • Date: 2016
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    William Robert Wheeler Collection First Sergeant, E-8, Army, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Germany; Saudi Arabia; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Carson, Colorado.
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    The Mind of an Artist Michael Kubovy and Judith Shatin, both from the University of Virginia, discuss "The Mind of the Artist." Debate has long raged about whether and how music expresses meaning beyond its sounding notes. Kubovy and Shatin discuss evidence that music does indeed have a semantic element, and offer examples of how composers embody extra-musical elements in their compositions.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2009
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    The International Mark Twain Society In this segment of From the Vaults, we discuss The International Mark Twain Society. The Society was founded in 1930 by Cyril Clemens as a social and literary discussion group, and later sent its book collection to the Library of Congress to form a Society collection in the Rare Book & Special Collections Division. The collection encompasses books published between the late 19th century...
    • Contributor: Varner, Monica
    • Date: 2021-11-19
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    Jenna Bush Hager: National Book Festival 2020 The former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author and co-anchor of the "Today" show, Jenna Bush Hager shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on to her. Hager launches her new book, "Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss" (William Morrow), at the Festival. Interview with Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation...
    • Contributor: Bush Hager, Jenna - Lucas, Lisa
    • Date: 2020-09-26
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    George Pelecanos: 2009 National Book Festival Author of 15 crime novels George Pelecanos appears at the National Book Festival.
    • Contributor: Pelecanos, George
    • Date: 2009-09-26
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    "Traverse City" The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City, Missouri in 2023. The showcase was recorded for this...
    • Contributor: Bernard, Seth
    • Date: 2023-05-01
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    Words, Images & Music: A Dialogue on Torquato Tasso & the Arts Laura Benedetti of Georgetown University and Peter Lukehart of the National Gallery of Art discuss 16th Century Italian poet Torquato Tasso in a program co-sponsored by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017