The Library of Congress recently issued a 78-page document called "The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan" whose purpose is to ensure that our descendants will be able to listen to the sounds of the past long after we're dead and gone.
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Created in 1800, the Library of Congress serves as the unofficial library of the United States, as well as being Congress' official research library.
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is to seal its place in history at the US Library of Congress as part of its National Recording Registry.
Included in that area are the U.S. Capitol, all of the House and Senate office buildings, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and part of the National Mall.
For more context and information on the technical aspects of the issue, you can review the NTIA's letter to the Library of Congress' Register of Copyrights (.pdf), voicing strong support for maintaining the previous exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for cell phone carrier unlocking.
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Twitter haters can go on scoffing that tweets are only ephemeral bits of frivolous information, but the Library of Congress has just ratified the importance of social media in recording history.
To add another layer of complexity, many tweets contain shortened URLs, and the Library of Congress is in discussions with many of these providers as well as with the Internet Archive and its 301works project to help resolve and map the links.
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"Twitter is a new kind of collection for the Library of Congress but an important one to its mission, " Gayle Osterberg, the library's director of communications, wrote in a blog post.
My personal favorite use of libraries is for photographs that are digitized and up on the Web, provided from the archives of the Denver Public Library and the Library of Congress.
Images courtesy Library of Congress, Bob Thompson, Getty Images and Bridgeman Art Library.
The donation of the archive to the Library of Congress may have been in part a symbolic act, a recognition of the cultural significance of Twitter.
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Bernard Green, who devised the system for the Library of Congress that was built a few years earlier than the New York Public Library, was hired as the engineering consultant for the New York stacks.
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C. 20-22 January where she will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Representatives of the U.S. Congress, and representatives of leading American cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress.
According to the Library of Congress, there were indeed women lawyers at the time.
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The meeting at the Library of Congress offered a mix of cutting-edge research and cautionary reflections.
The exhibit, now at the Library of Congress, is The American Violin: From Jefferson to Jazz.
Ten terabytes of space would hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress has rescued New Orleans public radio station WWOZ's extensive live broadcast collection.
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Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution.
It was added to the US National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2006.
America's Library of Congress enjoys a specific mandate, and budget, to save the web.
The Library of Congress archives my public stream, including your private tweet that I had retweeted.
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In the late 1920s, Joseph Cosey stole a pay warrant of Franklin from the Library of Congress.
"The Library of Congress is using the same software as the rest of our customers, " Miller said.
Have you ever had ambitions to write something that would wind up in the Library of Congress?
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The Library of Congress said last month it was aware of only two copies of the photo.
In 1924, it was put on display in the Library of Congress, for the first time ever.
The papers from the center are now at the Library of Congress, a revealing history of that era.
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