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Welcome to the Library of Congress accelerated aging lab! This type of experiment speeds up the naturally-occurring reactions which cause materials to break down over time, allowing Library staff to make preservation decisions without waiting hundreds of years.


NEWS: The Library has acquired the papers of songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach, a generous gift from his wife Jane Bacharach. This is the first collection acquired from a recipient of the Library of Congress #GershwinPrize for Popular Song. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-o…


The Library of Congress will award the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to National Book Award winner Arthur Sze for lifetime achievement in poetry. A celebratory public event will be held on Thursday, Dec. 5. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-o…


Try catching a moment of zen with this Library of Congress Main Reading Room ASMR. ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=S2nvkn…


Don't miss this very special event next week at the Library of Congress! loc.gov/item/event-415…

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This Veterans Day weekend, take a look at the Veterans History Project's newest online exhibit, highlighting veteran stories from the Battle of the Bulge. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/…


"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county... " - Thomas Jefferson to John Wyche, May 19, 1809, from Jefferson's papers at the Library of Congress loc.gov/resource/mtj1.…

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Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

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Enjoy some stunning Day of the Dead artworks from the Mission Gráfica/La Raza Graphics collection in the Library's Prints & Photographs Division. The archive represents decades of thriving San Francisco area print culture centering Latino & Latina voices. blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/20…

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