August 2004 - Vol. 63, No. 8
Prints from Eastern Europe
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A Washington, D.C.-area collector has made a gift to the Library of a significant
collection of contemporary prints by artists from throughout Eastern Europe.
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BOOK THE DATE
The fourth annual National Book Festival comes to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 9. -
IRANIAN ARCHITECTURE
The Library recently sponsored at its John W. Kluge Center a conference on architecture of the city of Tehran and its effect on that nation through the centuries. -
MAPPING IN 3D
A three-dimensional model of northern Los Angeles and the adjacent San Gabriel Mountains is on display outside the Library's Geography and Map Division. -
HOMEGROWN TUNES
The Paschall Brothers performed on the Library's Neptune Plaza as part of an American Folklife Center concert series featuring traditional American music. -
EDGY HUMOR
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has donated several original drawings to the Library, which has presented them in a new exhibition. -
CHINESE DEMOCRACY
Lanxin Xiang has concluded his scholarly work at the Library with a lecture on the philosophical dimensions of democracy and their applications to China. -
SAFETY VS. FREEDOM
In the second annual Holmes Debates sponsored in part by the Law Library of Congress, commentators discussed the need for increased domestic security vs. traditional civil liberites. -
CONSERVATION CORNER
Library preservationists have restored an 1878 illustration by Joseph Keppler of the editorial board of the satirical political magazine Puck.
