For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

These may be consulted in the office of the Architect of the Capitol, or the Library of Congress.

To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.

* Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress

* MP3 and RealAudio recordings available at the United States Library of Congress

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

* U. S. Library of Congress Amazing Grace collection

Carnegie's personal papers reside at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

* Alien and Sedition Acts and Related Resources from the Library of Congress

* Portals to the World from the United States Library of Congress

The Library of Congress said that in 1994 Belarus had ground forces of 52, 500.

The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

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* Library of Congress: Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889 – 1939

* Finding Franklin: A Resource Guide Library of Congress

* Library of Congress web resource: Benajmin Franklin ... In His Own Words

* US Library of Congress in the Balkan Wars

He believed that because the popular Library of Congress system had been designed for a specific library ( the Library of Congress ) it had no use as a standard system outside that library.

He had an office in the Library of Alexandria, and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant.

The Anthropology Library is especially large, with 120, 000 volumes However, the Paul Hamlyn Library, which had become the central reference library of the British Museum and the only library there freely open to the general public, closed permanently in August 2011.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

His heirs sent his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the National Library of Russia.

" More recently, reviewers from the American Library Association were surprised to find that most educational articles had been eliminated from the 1992 Macropædia, along with the article on psychology.

Under the next three centuries of Hellenistic Egypt, the Coptic writing system evolved and the Library of Alexandria was opened, and this likely had an influence upon books of magic, with the trend on known incantations switching from simple health and protection charms to more specific things such as financial success and sexual fullfillment.

Prince Eugene's Italian manuscript had been presented to him in 1713 by John Frederick Cramer ; and was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738 with the rest of his library.

In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

The critic Lewis Mumford found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 " with its pages uncut "— in other words, it had sat there unread for 50 years.

He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library ( who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996 ).< ref >

( The Library of Alexandria in fact had an indirect cause in the creation of writing parchment — due to the library's critical need for papyrus, little was exported and thus an alternate source of copy material became essential.

For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls ( and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works ), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U. S. Capitol.

In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

In 1987, Joshua Sinai of the Library of Congress wrote that the Syrian Arab Army was the dominant military service, and as such controlled the senior-most posts in the armed forces, and had the most manpower, approximately 80 percent of the combined services.

In 1984, Softalk-PC magazine had a column, The Public Library, about such software.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

* Real-time audiovisual recreation of the Apollo 11 mission to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Guide to Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott at Houghton Library, Harvard University

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library ( 1927 – 35 ), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building.

Acts 15: 22 – 24 from the 7th-century Codex Laudianus in the Bodleian Library, written in parallel columns of Latin and Greek language | Greek.

* Annotated bibliography of Andrei Sakharov from the Alsos Digital Library.

* Scholarly articles on the Apostles ' Creed from the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library

Bunyip ( 1935 ), artist unknown, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

* Lactantius, De mortibus persecutorum, from Christian Classics Ethereal Library

This group includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, containing part of St John's Gospel, and perhaps dating from between 125 and 160.

Every Halloween, Dabney House conducts the infamous " Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment " from the top of Millikan Library, the highest point on campus.

* Casey at the Bat cylinder recording by Russell Hunting, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.

Cover page of The Book of Mormon from an original 1830 edition, by Joseph Smith, Jr. ( Image from the U. S. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.