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May

May 17, 2013 (13-102)
Library of Congress and Mid-Atlantic Public Libraries Announce Summer Essay Contest
May 17, 2013 (13-100)
All of Martin Waldseemüller’s Cartographic Works On Display for Five Weeks at Library of Congress
May 16, 2013 (13-097)
“The Civil War in America” Exhibition Will Feature 230 New Items
May 15, 2013 (13-095)
FEDLINK Announces Annual Awards for Federal Librarianship
May 15, 2013 (13-A02)
Jefferson Building To Close Early May 21
May 15, 2013 (13-098)
How Benjamin Franklin Brought the Enlightenment to America
May 10, 2013 (13-E58)
Program for Cooperative Cataloging Launches RDA Cataloger Training in Spanish
May 10, 2013 (13-S58)
El Programa de Cooperación en Catalogación Lanza “Formación RDA para Catalogadores NACO” en Español
May 10, 2013 (13-091)
Islamic Law in Transitioning Arab Spring Countries

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May 10, 2013 (13-094)
Adoption from China Subject of May 29 Lecture
May 10, 2013 (13-092)
Letters About Literature Reading-Writing Program Winners Announced
May 8, 2013 (13-090)
American Folklife Center Announces Recipients of Parsons and Owen Research Awards
May 8, 2013 (13-088)
Ertai Gao to Discuss Chinese Literature and the Popularization Of Ancient Buddhist Works Found in Dunhuang
May 6, 2013 (13-089)
Librarian of Congress Appoints Two Copyright Royalty Judges
May 6, 2013 (13-087)
The Life and Works of Naguib Mahfouz Subject of Symposium
May 3, 2013 (13-086)
Library’s Packard Campus Presents Quebe Sisters Band Concert

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April

April 30, 2013 (13-083)
Steven Dick Named Chair in Astrobiology at Kluge Center
April 29, 2013 (13-085)
May Packard Campus Theater Schedule Features War Films, Live Concert
April 29, 2013 (13-084)
New Head of Library of Congress Young Readers Center Named
April 29, 2013 (13-081)
Waldseemüller Cartography Conference May 17-18
April 26, 2013 (13-077)
Library Acquires Sportscaster Bob Wolff’s Audiovisual Recordings
April 25, 2013 (13-079)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to Don DeLillo
April 24, 2013 (13-082)
Sports Author and Columnist Fred Bowen to Be Featured in Program for Young People
April 23, 2013 (13-080) (REVISED May 6, 2013)
Musician Ian MacKaye To Speak at the Library of Congress
April 23, 2013 (13-A01)
Jefferson Building Tour Schedule Updated July 1-5

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April 17, 2013 (13-076)
Public Events at the Library of Congress, May - July 2013
April 16, 2013 (13-075)
Swann Foundation Fellow Julia Langbein To Discuss Comic Drawings of French Salon Paintings
April 16, 2013 (13-072)
Relationship Between Communism and Fascism Is Subject of Book Discussion
April 15, 2013 (13-074)
"The Ike Age: Eisenhower, America & the World of the 1950s," Lecture
April 12, 2013 (13-071)
Baseball Great Hank Greenberg is Subject of Jewish American Heritage Month Program
April 11, 2013 (13-073)
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to Lecture May 1
April 9, 2013 (13-068)
Notable Authors To Appear 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival
April 8, 2013 (13-067)
“Why Two in One Flesh? The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy” April 30

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April 5, 2013 (13-069)
Cartographer to Discuss Work of Renaissance Astronomer and Mathematician
April 4, 2013 (13-052)
Koussevitzky Foundations Announce Commission Winners
April 3, 2013 (13-057)
Library Establishes Special Prize for National History Day
April 3, 2013 (13-065)
Lecture on Civil War Era Women’s Fashion, April 18
April 1, 2013 (13-066)
U.S. Civil and Human Rights Movement is Focus of 2013 Law Day Program
April 1, 2013 (13-064) (REVISED April 5, 2013)
Jean Elshtain Named Kluge Chair in Modern Culture

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March

March 29, 2013 (13-055)
Collector of Civil War Photographs to Focus on African Americans in Book Discussion
March 28, 2013 (13-063) (REVISED April 10, 2013)
Advisory Board Members Named for Library of Congress Literacy Awards
March 27, 2013 (13-062)
Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn Headline Films in April
March 27, 2013 (13-061)
Advisory: Igniting Conversations, Illuminating Minds, April 29-May 2
March 26, 2013 (13-059)
NASA Spring Lecture Series to Address Mars, Satellites and Exotic “Earths”
March 26, 2013 (13-060)
Literature in Conversation: Fred Arroyo and Maria Melendez
March 25, 2013 (13-051)
Scholars to Discuss Religion and Colonial Mesoamerica
March 22, 2013 (13-054)
Role of Jews in Indian Cinema Subject of Film Talk
March 22, 2013 (13-056)
Abraham Lincoln’s Code of Conduct for War Subject of Book Discussion

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March 21, 2013 (13-044)
New National Recording Registry With a Twist
March 20, 2013 (13-053)
Library of Congress Celebrates Preservation Week
March 18, 2013 (13-050)
Library Hosts Symposium and Performance on African-American Spirituals of the Civil War
March 14, 2013 (13-048)
Pivotal Speech by Daniel Patrick Moynihan Is Subject of Book Discussion
March 13, 2013 (13-049)
Indian Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam Appointed Chair At The John W. Kluge Center
March 12, 2013 (13-046)
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Hosts Reading To Celebrate Southern Writers, March 27
March 11, 2013 (13-047)
Modifications of Hours for Library of Congress Building Entrances and Exits
March 8, 2013 (13-045)
Historic Dupont Circle Meetings of Young Progressives Subject of New Book
March 7, 2013 (13-042)
Gettsyburg Address To Go on Display March 22 to May 4
March 7, 2013 (13-043)
Poet Laureate Chooses Sharon Dolin and Shara McCallum for Witter Bynner Award
March 5, 2013 (13-040)
Library Hosts Events Celebrating Careers of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine
March 4, 2013 (13-041)
Statement Regarding White House Petition on Section 1201 Rulemaking
March 1, 2013 (13-037)
Michael Chorost to Lecture on “How to Put Your Brain on the Internet,” March 20

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February

February 27, 2013 (13-035)
Danny Kaye’s TV & Film Career Headlines March Film Schedule
February 28, 2013 (13-038)
Elmer Eusman Named Chief of the Conservation Division
February 26, 2013 (13-036)
“Herblock Looks at 1963” Exhibition Opens March 30
February 26, 2013 (13-028)
“The Gibson Girl’s America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson” Exhibition Opens at Library of Congress on March 30
February 25, 2013 (13-032)
Library of Congress to Host Events in Celebration Of National Cherry Blossom Festival
February 22, 2013 (13-034) (REVISED March 14, 2013)
Final Volume in “The Washington Reporters” Series to Be Discussed
February 21, 2013 (13-031)
Ismail Serageldin to Speak at Library March 8
February 21, 2013 (13-033)
Library of Congress “Timeline of the Civil War” Illustrated Volume Subject of Book Discussion
February 19, 2013 (13-025)
Library of Congress National Book Festival Slated for Sept. 21-22

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February 15, 2013 (13-030)
Library of Congress, IMLS Announce New National Digital Stewardship Residency
February 15, 2013 (13-027)
Scholars to Examine Human & Moral Relationship to the Environment
February 14, 2013 (13-029)
Charles Mann to Deliver Kislak Lecture on Post-1492 World
February 13, 2013 (13-014)
Library Announces National Recording Preservation Plan
February 12, 2013 (13-026)
Main Reading Room Open House on Presidents Day
February 8, 2013 (13-024)
Rare Renaissance Maps Subject of New Library Publication
February 7, 2013 (13-023)
Holocaust in Post-War German Film Subject of Lecture
February 6, 2013 (13-022)
Library of Congress Announces Literary Birthday Celebrations
February 4, 2013 (13-021)
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust to Commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial

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January

January 31, 2013 (13-018)
Library of Congress Seeks Applicants for Fellowships in the John W. Kluge Center
January 31. 2013 (13-016)
Robin Lovin Named to the Cary & Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History
January 26, 2013 (13-020)
Romance, Star Trek Headline February Film Series
January 24, 2013 (13-019) (REVISED April 10, 2013)
Applications Being Accepted for New Library of Congress Literacy Awards
January 23, 2013 (13-013)
Congressional Record, CBO Cost Estimates Added to Congress.gov
January 23, 2013 (13-017)
Terrorism Expert Anat Berko to Discuss New Book on Suicide Bombers
January 22, 2013 (13-005)
"Books That Shaped America" Available on Amazon
January 18, 2013 (13-010)
Kluge Center Announces Winter/Spring Lecture Season
January 17, 2013 (13-011)
Main Reading Room Open House on Presidents’ Day

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January 17, 2013 (13-015)
Bible Used in Lincoln, Obama Inaugurations on Display Jan. 23 to Feb. 18
January 16, 2013 (13-012)
FEDLINK to Manage Information Acquisitions Across Federal Agencies
January 16, 2013 (13-002)
Adventurers to Discuss Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition 2014
January 15, 2013 (13-008)
Movie Icon Mary Pickford Subject of New Book, Film Tour
January 15, 2013 (13-007)
Plot to Assassinate Lincoln on Eve of Civil War Is Subject of Book Discussion
January 11, 2013 (13-006) (REVISED January 30, 2013)
Photo Essay Documenting the March on Washington is Subject of Book Discussion
January 10, 2013 (13-009) (REVISED January 16, 2013)
Afghan President Receives Digitized Cultural Treasures
January 10, 2013 (13-004)
Danny Kaye Exhibition Opens Feb. 14
January 9, 2013 (13-003)
Library Acquires Historic Sports Audio Recordings
January 4, 2013 (13-001)
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Will Read Civil War Poems Jan. 30

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