When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

"The Lomaxes,John and Alan, thrfather and son team and then Bess to a certain extent worked at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

The United States Library of Congress appoints an official poet, called the Poet Laureate, every one to two years.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The writer began giving early versions of his books and drawings to the library beginning in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Like his father, Alan Lomax went to work for the Library of Congress, where he directed the Folk Archive.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

For nine years this outdoor event organized by the Library of Congress has brought readers, writers and illustrators to the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

The Lomaxes went to Washington to examine the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Children's Defense Fund hired her to build a library on a farm it owns in the state of Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

In exchange,he agreed to travel throughout the United States to make recordings that would become the property of the archive at the library.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer,Iowa."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

But he plans to continue making the water filters in the depths of the library.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Dewey loved to keep people company while they chose books or used the library computer.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

(LENA REYNA) The Library of Congress is planning to post the winning poems as an online collection on its Poetry for the Mind's Joy Web site.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The Spencer public library worked to help people in the town find jobs.

VOA: special.2009.02.23