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.

The original acts and debates of the council, as prepared by its general secretary, Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita ( 2 vols., Leipzig, 1874 ).

Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Library of Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: the export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce.

Roger's work is known to us through one 13th century manuscript in the Bodleian Library ( Douce manuscript 207 ), a mutilated 14th century copy in the British Library ( Cotton manuscript Otho B. v .), and the edition prepared by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of that writer's Chronica Majora ( ed.

A professional work prepared by Lyndsay in the Lyon Office, entitled the Register of Scottish Arms ( now preserved in manuscript in the Advocates ' Library ), was printed in 1821 and reprinted in 1878.

Under plans prepared by Egbert Viele in 1861, this " Mount Prospect Park " was to straddle Flatbush Avenue and include the eponymous Prospect Hill and territory now occupied by the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Brooklyn Museum.

* A guide prepared by the British Library

According to a paper by Besebes on the library, prepared for the 62nd IFLA Conference, " The Congress Library is organized as one of the Joint Programs under the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

A handwritten performing parts edition of the Piano Quintet, from the original in the Royal College of Music ( RCM ) Library, had been prepared earlier by violinist Martin Anthony Burrage of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

At each level, some of the subject headings from the list prepared by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City are used.

The still-extant manuscript ( since 1821, MS. Malone 12 in the collection of the Bodleian Library ), a small quarto-sized bundle of 48 leaves, is in the hand of Ralph Crane, the professional scribe who worked for the King's Men in this era, and who prepared several texts for the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, as well as two of the survivng manuscripts of Middleton's A Game at Chess, plus other King's Men's works.

Some additional information on how to prepare an RFP specifically for an ILS has been prepared by the American Library Association and can be found on their wiki here: http :// wikis. ala. org / professionaltips / index. php / Request_for_Proposal_ % 28RFP % 29.

The cards ( only 67 ) are today in the Cary collection of the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University, in the U. S. state of Connecticut.

Of the original cards, 35 are in The Morgan Library & Museum, 26 are at the Accademia Carrara, 13 are at the Casa Colleoni and four: ' The Devil ', ' The Tower ', ' Money's Horse ( The Chariot )' and ' 3 of Spades ', are lost or else never made.

Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President Harry S Truman and his wife Bess after signing the Medicare bill at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

The two remained friends — with ups and downs — for almost thirty years during which time Garbo wrote de Acosta 181 letters, cards, and telegrams which are kept at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.

Library cards are free for all Volusia County residents.

While still a student, he founded the Library Bureau which sold high quality index cards and filing cabinets, and established the standard dimensions for catalog cards.

Over 23, 000 patrons within the Huntley Area Public Library District have library cards.

* Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University offers community library cards.

* Great Neck Library whose circulation policy is to grant cards to residents of the school district.

Library cards are free to Franklin County residents.

Library cards are free and visitors can check out books while they vacation in Yachats.

The beginning of the Library of Congress's catalog card service in 1911 led to the use of these cards in the majority of American libraries.

Turner was never comfortable at Harvard ; when he retired in 1922 he became a visiting scholar at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, where his note cards and files continued to pile up, but few monographs got published.

* Collection of calling cards received by Mrs. John Beckwith, Chicago at the Newberry Library

* In the CCG Magic: The Gathering, there are two cards named Library of Leng and Candles of Leng.

* See more examples of dance cards from the early 20th century at University of Houston Digital Library

The Maxwell Library has a Starbucks that accepts students ' connect cards.

Shard End Library opened in 1967 and was the first in Birmingham to use plastic membership cards instead of the traditional cardboard tickets.

Old master prints, nearly all on religious subjects, served many of the same functions as holy cards, especially the cheaper woodcuts ; the earliest dated surviving example is from 1423, probably from southern Germany, and depicts Saint Christopher, with handcolouring, it is found as part of the binding of a manuscript of the Laus Virginis ( 1417 ) which belongs to the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

* Library cards

' Library ' - containing cards generally representing assets or actions to be taken during the game.

Library cards are free to California residents.