Schedule

The 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Sept. 3, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). A selection of programs will be livestreamed online and videos of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival. View and download the Festival program; note that any last-minute schedule adjustments will only be updated on the website and will not be reflected in the Festival program PDF.

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Friday September 2, 2022

Event | special events

National Book Festival Opening Celebration: Books Bring Us Together
Friday
September 2, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) On the eve of the 2022 National Book Festival, join Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and festival co-chairman David M. Rubenstein as they welcome five of the more than 100 authors appearing at this year’s festival. This special event, live from the Library and sponsored by AARP, features David Maraniss, Candice Millard, Nick Offerman, Andrea Davis Pinkney and Ed Yong.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage

Saturday September 3, 2022

Event | lectures and symposia

Library of Congress Trivia: Are You Smarter Than the Library?
Saturday
September 3, 2022
10:00 am - 10:30 am EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Join an engaging program for all ages that combines fun with learning about the Library of Congress' history and collections.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Fun and Funny, Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Bienvenidos a la Biblioteca
Saturday
September 3, 2022
10:45 am - 11:15 am EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Explore the Library in Spanish! Featuring an overview of the Library’s history, fun facts about its collections, and an invitation to join the Library for Hispanic Heritage Month. ¡Explore la Biblioteca en español! Con una visión general de la historia de la Biblioteca, datos divertidos sobre sus colecciones, y una invitación para unirse a la Biblioteca para el Mes de la Herencia Hispana.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Hispanic Interest, Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Find Yourself in Books
Saturday
September 3, 2022
11:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) We read books, we create works inspired by them and we belong to book clubs and libraries. We read, learn and get creative. Creativity is the core of copyright. Let us take you on a journey through the Copyright Office exhibit’s artifacts to find how each of us contribute to the copyright system in books!
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Know Your Rights: An Introduction to the Constitution Annotated
Saturday
September 3, 2022
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) "The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation" (Constitution Annotated), published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), provides a comprehensive review of U.S. Constitutional provisions and the leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions that interpret them. CRS has made this resource available online, via Congress.gov. This presentation will provide an overview of the Constitution Annotated website’s features.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Inspire Learning with the Library of Congress!
Saturday
September 3, 2022
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) The Library of Congress supports K-16 teachers with primary source-inspired programs, classroom materials, fellowships and grants. The session will introduce a sampling of these opportunities and allow time for Q&A, as well as participant input about how they have used Library resources.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Virtual Volunteering with By the People: Explore, Transcribe and Learn
Saturday
September 3, 2022
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) The Library’s By the People program invites the public to help transcribe our digitized collections at crowd.loc.gov. Since 2018, our virtual volunteers have completed over 500,000 transcriptions improving search, accessibility and discovery for the papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, and more. Learn how transcribers are impacting the Library while exploring pages from history—and how you can get involved!
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

African American Genealogical Research
Saturday
September 3, 2022
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Doing genealogical research for African Americans can be quite challenging and requires some creativity when deciding what resources and records to search for information. Using real-life examples, this presentation will provide researchers with some of the basic tools and resources to begin their search.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Black and African American Interest, Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Made at the Library
Saturday
September 3, 2022
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) The Library of Congress welcomes researchers every day as they explore our collections for forthcoming books, but researchers and authors work at the Library, too. Come to discover how staff use the Library’s resources to enhance their work and learn how Library resources might inspire your next creative idea!
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Bits of the Library: Born-Digital Preservation, Book Digitization and Access at the Library of Congress
Saturday
September 3, 2022
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) The Preservation Services Division is busy with projects that enable digital research. We'll show you how specialized hardware and software is used to save collections that live on external media like floppy disks, CDs and hard drives. We'll also highlight how the Library digitizes millions of pages of books, newspapers, and legal gazettes and makes them available for researchers online.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational
Event | lectures and symposia

Made Possible by You: Philanthropy at the Library
Saturday
September 3, 2022
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm EDT Room 152 (Street Level, North Building) Donors have been a vital member of the Library of Congress family for more than a century. Their gifts help to broaden the Library's reach, educate visitors, expand collections and host public programs like the National Book Festival! Learn more about the Library’s history of philanthropy and how you might contribute to this rich history by becoming a Friend of the Library of Congress.
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Stage: Library of Congress Stage Interests: Inspiring and Educational

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