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Poet and Poem 2009 Series
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and 30 other noted poets will be featured in the 2009 season of "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress." The radio series is available to all public radio stations via the Public Radio Satellite System?s ContentDepot.
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Library Adds New Features for Visitors, Extends Hours
Beginning Dec. 11, a series of innovative features at the Library of Congress will greet visitors, seamlessly integrating the onsite experience in the Thomas Jefferson Building with the Library?s online experience, all part of the new "Library of Congress Experience," which launched this past spring.
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Library of Congress, National Library of China Sign World Digital Library Agreement
The Library of Congress and the National Library of China have concluded an agreement to cooperate in developing the World Digital Library.
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Library Merges Acquisition, Cataloging Functions
As result of the latest reorganization at the Library of Congress, a book acquired as a copyright deposit, purchase, gift or an exchange will go to one division instead of several for centralized processing?the ordering, cataloging, shelflisting, barcoding and other activities that enable users to find one particular book among more than 23.3 million unique titles in printed formats (plus another 8.9 million that are duplicate copies) held at the Library.
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New Chiefs Named in Library Reorganization
As part of an internal reorganization at the Library of Congress, three new chiefs have been named in newly-created divisions within the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) directorate, according to Beacher Wiggins, director of ABA in Library Services.
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