Book Description
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Author : John Young Cole
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911282136
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Law
ISBN :
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309171687
Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management needs in many respectsâ€"not only in terms of accommodating digital information and technology, but also through the need to develop new economic and organizational models for managing information. LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress discusses these challenges and provides recommendations for moving forward at the Library of Congress, the world's largest library. Topics covered in LC21 include digital collections, digital preservation, digital cataloging (metadata), strategic planning, human resources, and general management and budgetary issues. The book identifies and elaborates upon a clear theme for the Library of Congress that is applicable more generally: the digital age calls for much more collaboration and cooperation than in the past. LC21 demonstrates that information-intensive organizations will have to change in fundamental ways to survive and prosper in the digital age.
Author : Herbert Putnam
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 1905
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Tallent
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062410385
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction In this bold and brilliant memoir, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life. In the decade between age twenty-seven and thirty-seven, Elizabeth Tallent published five literary books with Knopf, her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, and she secured a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. But this extraordinary start to her career was followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote —or rather published— nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. Elizabeth’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington, D.C., when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment, Elizabeth moves back and forth in time, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. She traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family,” to her adulthood, when perfectionism came to affect everything. As she toggles between teaching at Stanford in Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives, raises her son Gabriel, and pursues an important psychoanalysis, Elizabeth grapples with the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her personal life and writing life. Eventually, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. Her final triumph is the writing of this extraordinary memoir, filled with wit, humor, and heart—a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence.
Author : Margaret Bourke-White
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : SUSAN L. ROTH
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2025-01-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781643790817
A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction. Also available in Spanish.
Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Harry Katz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0061625469
Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, remains the national pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to its street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character. The more than three hundred and fifty fabulous illustrations feature first-generation photographic and chromolithographic baseball cards; photographs of famous players and ballparks; and newspaper clippings, cartoons, New Deal photographs, and baseball advertisements. Packed with images that will surprise and thrill even the most expert collector, Baseball Americana is a gift for every baseball fan.