PRIZED POETS
The Librarian has named Billy Collins as the 11th Poet Laureate.

JEFFERSON's LIBRARY
Thomas Jefferson's personal library.

HIT PARADE
The "America's Library" Web site for children and families has logged a record number of visitors.

DISCOVERING AMERICA
The Library has purchased the first map to use the name "America."

NEW COLLECTIONS ONLINE
American advertising, photos of North American Indians and musical archives are the subjects of three new collections in American Memory.

ARCHIVING THE WEB
The Library and Alexa Internet have jointly produced an internet archives of the 2000 election.

REFERENCE PARTNERS
The pilot Collaborative Digital Reference Service now has 100 partner libraries.

AND THE WINNER IS...
Library staff and publications have been honored with several awards. Diane Kresh | Barbara Tillett | Architectural Alphabet | NAGC Honors | Letters of Delegates

BOOKS & BEYOND
William MacLeish, Daniel Schorr and Louis Menand discussed their books in separate evenings at the Library.

EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE
Senators, authors and journalists read from a new collection of war letters at the Library May 16.

GLOBALIZATION IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES
The latest symposium in this series discussed intellectual debates in Islam.

WELCOME FELLOWS
NLS honors Soros Foundation fellows.

GETTY GIFT
Library wins grant for conservation training.

VOX EX MACHINA
Designers compete to develop talking book machine.

REVOLUTION, REACTION, REFORM
Teachers convened at the Library's National Digital Library Learning Center for National History Day.

ALLEY COMMUNITIES
Library staff hosted an annual educational event for D.C.-area students on "Discovering Hidden Washington."

AGENCY DAY
Legal librarians met at the Law Library May 11.

NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR THE BOOK