News from the Library of Congress

December 2015

  • December 22, 2015  (15-219)
    Public Events at the Library of Congress Events January - April 2016
    • Date: 2015-12-22
  • December 22, 2015  (15-222)
    Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Bay Psalm Book Exhibitions Close on Jan. 2 Twelve days remain to view the Library of Congress exhibitions “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom” and “First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American Printing.” Both exhibitions close at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 2.
    • Date: 2015-12-22
  • December 18, 2015  (15-221)
    Library of Congress to Receive 9/11-Responder Oral History Collection The Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center will become the home of a significant collection of oral histories provided by responders to the devastating Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center, U.S. Rep. Steve Israel announced today.
    • Date: 2015-12-18
  • December 17, 2015  (15-218)
    National Film Registry Titles Featured in January Feature films and short subjects named to the National Film Registry for posterity will be showcased at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, in January.
    • Date: 2015-12-17
  • December 17, 2015  (15-220)
    Fifth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature To Be Inaugurated The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader will inaugurate the fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature on Jan. 7.
    • Date: 2015-12-17
  • December 16, 2015  (15-216)
    2015 National Film Registry: "Ghostbusters" Gets the Call Acting Librarian of Congress David Mao announced today the annual selection of 25 motion pictures of cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to be named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
    • Date: 2015-12-16
  • December 14, 2015  (15-217)
    Congress.gov Adds Congressional Record Index, Quick-Search Function The free legislative information website Congress.gov beginning today added the Congressional Record Index to the site’s searchable data sets. It is the last of multiple upgrades to the site throughout 2015 as the Library of Congress moves toward discontinuing the legacy information site THOMAS.gov.
    • Date: 2015-12-14
  • December 9, 2015  (15-A08)
    Holiday Schedule, Dec. 2015–Jan. 2016 The following is the holiday operation schedule, including building closures, for the Library of Congress for December 2015 and January 2016.
    • Date: 2015-12-09
  • December 7, 2015  (15-214)
    Library of Congress Seeks Applicants for Junior Fellows Summer Internships The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its 2016 Junior Fellows Summer Internship Program— a 10-week paid fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students.
    • Date: 2015-12-07
  • December 4, 2015  (15-213)
    Global Refugees Are Subject of Dec. 14 Program at the Library of Congress The Library will host a program titled “Global Refugees: The Case of Jews and Greeks in 20th-Century Czechoslovakia” on Dec. 14.
    • Date: 2015-12-04
  • December 3, 2015  (15-208)
    Library Acquires the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Collection The Library of Congress has taken another step in its effort to preserve American television and video by acquiring a collection of kinescopes, videotapes, 16 mm and Super 8 home movies of legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs and his wife, singer-actress-comedienne Edie Adams.
    • Date: 2015-12-03
  • December 1, 2015  (15-210)
    Library of Congress Literacy Awards Publishes 2015 Best Practices The Library of Congress Literacy Awards program, now in its third year, has just published “Best Practices 2015,” a review of the outstanding work in the field of literacy being done by the three 2015 Literacy Awards award winners.
    • Date: 2015-12-01
  • December 1, 2015  (15-A07)
    Jefferson Building To Close December 3 On Thursday, December 3, the Great Hall, all exhibitions and the Library Shop in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress will be closed to the public for a special event.
    • Date: 2015-12-01

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