On Jan. 3, Dr. Billington announced that the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress has joined with the Everybody Wins foundation INC. in a new national reading promotion partnership.
"The Everybody WIns project focuses on one-to-one reading aloud relationships between adults and young children," said Dr. Billington. "A proven success in New York City and in Washington, Everybody Wins has tremendous national potential."
"Our cooperation is starting through pilot Everybody Wins projects in Vermont and Minnesota," said Center for the Book Director John Y. Cole. "We h ope additional state centers for the book will become participants later in 1996."
The Center for the Book also will support the Everybody Wins project in Washington and sponsor an Everybody Wins event at the Library of Congress in autumn 1996.
Founded in 1991 by Arthur Tannenbaum, Everybody Wins is a private nonprofit organization devoted to promoting children's literacy to help their prospects for success in school and life. For information, write or call Everybody Wins Foundation, 165 E. 56th St., New York, NY 10022. (212) 832-3180; or Joanie Chase, Everybody Wins D.C., 13605 Sir Thomas Way, No. 44, Silver Spring, MD 20904, (301) 890-0646.
First "Books & Beyond" Speakers Announced. Programs on Jan. 30 and Feb. 13 will inaugurate "Books & Beyond," the Center for the Book's new series of talks by authors of books that have particular relevance to the Library of Congress. Both programs begin at noon and are free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, Jan. 30, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the Madison Building, Jane Aiken Rosenberg will discuss her book, The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899-1939 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993).
In the Mumford Room in the Madison Building on Tuesday, Feb. 13, Edith Pavese and Judith Henry will present an illustrated program and discuss their book, The Millennium Book of Days (Crown, 1995). This volume uses illustrations from the Library's collections to celebrate the remarkable events of 1000-2000 A.D.
Developed in collaboration with the Library's Publishing Office, The Millennium Book of Days contains a foreword by Dr. Billington. Boorstin Reader Published. The Modern Library has published The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader, with more than 75 selections from Dr. Boorstin's best-selling works (The Americans, The Discoverers, The Creators) as well as essays from eight of his other works.
Edited by Ruth F. Boorstin, this original collection includes an introduction by Roderick MacLeish and a list of Dr. Boorstin's 22 books, from The Mysterious Science of the Law (Harvard Univ. Press, 1941) to Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (Random House, 1994).
The volume was announced at the Library of Congress on Sept. 30, 1994, by Robert Loomis, Dr. Boorstin's editor at Random House. The occasion was a symposium and dinner in the Library's Great Hall, marking Dr. Boorstin's 80th birthday and recognizing his contributions as Librarian of Congress (1975-1987), historian and citizen of the world of books. (See LC Information Bulletin, Dec. 26, 1994).
The event was sponsored by the Center for the Book, which Dr. Boorstin established in 1977 and in which he remains actively involved.
A 908-page volume, The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader is available for $20 in bookstores and in the LC Sales Shop. One of the essays in the book, "Gresham's Law: Knowledge or Information?," is reprinted from a Center for the Book publication that is available in the LC Sales Shop for $15: The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading and Libraries, 1975-1987, edited by John Y. Cole.
For information, call (202) 707-0204.
Literary Heritage of the States" Project Enters New Phase. In 1995 the Center for the Book completed a "Literary Heritage of the States" project, funded in 1992 through a major grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
"We are grateful to the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund for helping us establish literary heritage--the linking of writers and their writing to places and regional traditions--as a major, continuing Center for the Book theme," said John Y. Cole, the center's director. "In addition to funding exhibits, programs, publications and projects at the Library of Congress and at 24 affiliated state centers, the project increased awareness and appreciation of literary heritage as a means to promoting reading and the values of a book culture; helped establish literary maps as innovative and useful educational tools; and stimulated public interest in writers and their writing throughout the nation. It also provided seed money for several projects that will be continued and expanded here at the Library."
At the Library, the grant supported "Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America," an exhibition held in the foyer of the Madison Building from September 1993 through January 1994. A joint project of the Interpretive Programs Office, the Geography and Map Division and the Center for the Book, the exhibition features literary maps from the Library's collection and photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division. It quotes prominent writers to show how Americans' views of different regions of the country have been influenced and shaped by literary voices.
After being hosted at 14 state centers from 1992 through mid-1995, "Language of the Land" is now part of the Library's traveling exhibits program. For booking information, call the Interpretive Programs Office at (202) 707-5223.
Support from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund grant supported a great variety of literary heritage projects and events at state centers for the book. The list includes 74 reading events in 38 cities or towns; 12 new state literary maps; 3 statewide "author posters"; 2 books, 5 booklets and 4 brochures; a CD-ROM; 4 symposia/panel discussions; 7 special events honoring local authors; a film series; a public television series featuring regional and state authors; a radio program; 4 "auxiliary" exhibits displayed concurrently with "Language of the Land;" 2 continuing projects in local schools, and at least 3 T- shirts.
Another project stimulated by the grant is The Library of Congress Book of Literary Maps, an illustrated catalog/listing of the approximately 300 literary maps in the Geography and Map Division, including the 12 new maps created through the project. The book, which is being edited by Martha Hopkins of the Interpretive Programs Office and Michael Buscher of the Geography and Map Division, also will amplify the philosophy behind the literary maps exhibition and introduce scholars and the general public to literary maps as a genre. Publication by the Library is expected late this year.
