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"Ad"ded Value for the Library
In the PR biz, there is what is known as “earned” media — the kind where you work the phones and email in order to interest a reporter into covering your story. And then there is paid media, which, of...
View ArticleTime To Celebrate!
If you haven’t seen, we have just released details of our April 12 public festivities launching the wonderful, new Library of Congress Experience. You can read all about it here and, as always, keep up...
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A Little Refreshing at the Library
As part of our new Library of Congress Experience, the Library has been updating a lot of our materials and signage around our Capitol Hill complex. If our renovation in 1997 was a facelift for the...
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Students, Media Get Look at Library of Congress Experience
We held a media event today to show off the new Library of Congress Experience (opening April 12!), and we were fortunate to be joined by teacher Amy Trenkle, who spoke about the power of the...
View ArticleTo Thomas: Happy Birthday. From: Your Library.
Tomorrow we’re having a party. Maybe you’ve heard. The Library of Congress is throwing open its bronze doors to the public for the first time since 1990 to celebrate the new Library of Congress...
View ArticleDavid McCullough’s Must-See Experience
If you traveled to Washington, D.C., and had time to see just one attraction, what would it be? The Capitol? The White House? Maybe the National Mall? On Saturday, noted historian David McCullough, who...
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Images of 'Hitler's Private Gallery' Now Online
There are probably few people about whom more words have been written than Adolf Hitler. But today the Library of Congress has helped add to the visual dimension surrounding one of the most reviled...
View ArticleCan a Building Get Fan Mail?
I appreciate all of the email feedback I get, both the positive and, yes, even the negative constructive criticism. I got an email yesterday, however, that was too good not to share it in its entirety,...
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My First ‘Bloggiversary’
My, how time flies. If I weren’t back on Atkins, I might be tempted to track down a cupcake and a birthday candle, because today is the first anniversary of this blog. (It is also, not coincidentally,...
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Library of Congress Acquires Spider-Man's 'Birth Certificate'
Comic Book Guy of “The Simpsons” has been known to have a cardiac episode or two. But an acquisition the Library of Congress just made might give his heart its “worst episode ever.” (Apologies for...
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