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• Library Experience at myloc.gov
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• Wise Guide to loc.gov
  Michael Jackson, Olympics, myLOC and Spider-Man
• Webcasts from the Library
  Vanessa James on Shakespeare's genealogies
• Performing Arts
  Explore resources and presentations on music, theater and dance
• Places in the News
  Headline locations from the Library's map collections
• Today in History | July 6
  Travel back in time through American Memory

|| Popular Topics & Collections  ||

• National Book Festival
• The Civil War
• Thomas Jefferson
• The Great Depression
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution

|| News from the Library  ||

• Library of Congress at ALA
  American Library Association annual meeting June 26-July 2
• Kluge Prize To Be Announced
  "America's Nobel" for study of humanity to be given Dec. 10
• Letters About Literature Winners
  National, state awards presented to young writers
• FLICC Federal Library Awards
  Honoring libraries, librarians and library technicians

• More news and upcoming events

|| The Library at Work  ||

• Lifelong Literacy
  Encouraging children to become engaged in reading
• Flickr Photo Pilot
  Sharing photographs with a broad new audience in a Web 2.0 community
• Audio-Visual Conservation
  Preserving, and providing access to the world’s audiovisual heritage
• Digital Preservation
  Collecting and preserving digital knowledge for future generations

|| Did You Know? ||

Did you know that some three-fourths of Americans associate hot dogs with Independence day as opposed to any other holiday?

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