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 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.

In 1987, the Library of Congress Country Study said that the Air Force's official name, Ivoirian Air Transport and Liaison Group ( Groupement Aérien de Transport et de Liaison -- GATL ), ' reflects an original mission focused more on logistics and transport rather than a combat force.

Mali is an active contributor to peacekeeping forces in West and Central Africa ; the Library of Congress said that in 2004 Mali was participating in United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( MONUC, 28 personnel including 27 observers ), Liberia ( UNMIL, 252 personnel, including 4 observers ), and Sierra Leone ( 3 observers ).

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

The bill allowed for fines for anyone who imported or traded in unlicensed or foreign books, required every book that would be given copyright protection to be entered into the Stationers ' Register, provided a legal deposit system centred around the King's Library, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but said nothing about limiting the term of copyright.

Library Journal said The Andromeda Strain was " One of the most important novels of the year ( 1969 ).

In 1996, the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service issued a report that said, " There is no precedent for Congress promulgating an amendment based on state ratifications adopted after a ratification deadline has expired.

The 1982 Library Journal review said that Heinlein " returns to an earlier style of brisk adventure mixed with polemic in the saga of special courier Friday Jones.

Sue K. Hurwitz said in her review for the School Library Journal that it is " a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author ; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose ", and comments that the book's ending was " a devastating parody of SF conventions — will have genre addicts rolling on the floor.

In 1993 the Library Journal said that So Long and Thanks for all the Fish was " filled with loopy humor and pretzel logic that makes Adams ' writing so delightful ".

Betsy Shorb reviewing for the School Library Journal said that " the humor is still off-the-wall but more gentle than the other books.

In 2011 the British Library launched an appeal to buy the closely related St Cuthbert Gospel and said that they intended that this should be displayed in Durham for part of the time.

And will that my executors pay forty thousand pounds in the terme of ten years, by yearly payments of four thousand pounds, the first payment thereof to begin and be made after the decease of my said two sisters for the building a library in Oxford and the purchaseing the house the houses between St Maries and the scholes in Catstreet where I intend the Library to be built, and when the said Library is built I give one hundred and fifty pounds per annum for ever to the Library Keeper thereof for the time being and one hundred pounds a year per annum for ever for buying books for the same Library.

Copy, said to be 17th century, in John Carter Brown Library, Providence.

In 1988, Watertown Square became the new location for the Armenian Library and Museum of America, said to host the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America.

These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.

* Poet John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) is said to have lived for a time near Kedermister Library in Langley < sup >- see Talk: Langley, Berkshire # John Milton | talk page .</ sup >

Breathed said that the reason why the strips printed in Bloom County Library were not posted in previous anthologies was that the publisher would not let Breathed publish 400 pages each year, so Breathed had to reduce the content in each anthology.

* Paul W. Drake, and others., Chile: A Country Study, Library of Congress, 1994

Frederick Douglass, Autobiography ( Library of America, 1994 ) ISBN 978-0-940450-79-0

The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place.

These are the results that the Library of Congress expected of an ideal mass deacidification treatment in 1994.

( 1994 ) Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher, Synthese Library, Springer-Verlag.

The film was considered " culturally, historically or aesthetically " significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 1994.

In 1994, the National Library of Australia purchased a photograph album, monogrammed " L & V O " and believed to have belonged to the Oliviers, containing 573 photographs of the couple during their 1948 tour of Australia.

In 1994, John Rice uncovered two terzetti by Salieri in the Austrian National Library.

Girolamo Savonarola Piety, Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Florence Catalogue of the Exhibition ( Dallas, Bridwell Library, 1994 ).

* Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library, Bard College ; Annondale-on-Hudson, New York ( 1994 )

* 1994-Hugh Lloyd-Jones, verse ( Sophocles, Volume II: Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, Loeb Classical Library No. 21, 1994 ; ISBN 978-0-674-99558-1 )

Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994.

In 1994, A Corner in Wheat was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994, Force of Evil was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

In 1994, Louisiana Story was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994, the film has been deemed " culturally significant " by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

In 1994, A Movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1994 it was voted # 8 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field and in 2000 was deemed " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress, who has selected the short for preservation in the National Film Registry.

In 1994, Tabu was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Clinton Coot was first mentioned in Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 27 in the story " Guardians of the Lost Library ", first published in July, 1994.