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The Library of Congress James B. Garvin, who is the chief scientist of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will discuss the latest findings and the Mars exploration strategy, in a lecture at the Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed.




NASA Scientist James B. Garvin to Discuss "Mars Update"
Lectures Held at the Library of Congress
Time:11:30AM Wednesday, March 17th
Location:James Madison Building, Mary Pickford Theater


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In Search of Africa
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Archivist Sylivester Sennabulya speaks about collecting and preserving African heritage at the Library of Congress.

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This service is provided by the Library of Congress at www.LOC.gov.



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NAACP: Reflections on the First 100 Years
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In commemoration of 100 years of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the Library of Congress sponsored the symposium "The NAACP: Reflections of the First 100 Years." The symposium explored both the history and future of the NAACP.

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Young Reader's Center

The Library of Congress, for the first time in its history, has a space devoted to the reading interests of children and teens in its historic Thomas Jefferson Building. Children and families can come into the Young Readers Center, read some of the many books available or explore the internet to find other reading resources. The books in the Young Readers Center are non-circulating but staff in the center will help users locate libraries in their communities where they can look for books of interest. The Young Readers Center is open from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and is closed on federal holidays.




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Women of Invention

March 24th, 2010 by Jennifer Harbster

*Mary Hallock Greenewalt, half-length portrait, at electric light "color organ", which she invented

The desire to tinker, create and invent is universal. It doesn’t matter who or what you are–a scientist, business person, layperson, man, woman or child–if there’s a problem, we want to figure out how to solve it by inventing a new way of doing things or improving on an existing way.


Women inventors have had to overcome significant hurdles when it comes to patents. Researching the history of women patent holders can be challenging, because in this country’s early days, many women inventors didn’t use their own names on patent applications. They may have used a husband’s or other man’s name or just used initials to hide their identity. There were also the women who worked with men to patent an idea, but were left off the record, and some women’s inventions were never patented or were sold to a corporation who then patented the idea.


The good news is historians and scholars are bringing to light the history and work of women inventors and how their innovations have improved society. Our guide Women of Invention: Women Inventors and Patent Holders is a good place to start learning about these amazing women and the struggles they endured.

Title page of Women Inventors to Whom Patents Have Been Granted by the United States Government, 1790 to July 1, 1888

In the spirit of Women’s History Month here is a small selection of inventions that have made a significant contribution to society, science, and technology:

Kevlar (patent #3, 671,542- filing date 1969/ issue date 1972): Stephanie L. Kwolek, a chemist who works in high-performance textiles, invented the Kevlar aramid fiber. Kevlar is used in radial tires, bulletproof vests, skis, and in the construction of airplanes and boats.
Laser Cataract Surgery (patent # 4,744, 360-filing date 1986/ issue date 1988): Patricia Bath, an ophthalmologist and the first African American woman to receive a medical patent, invented a laser based surgical device to remove cataracts (laserphaco). Her device made cataract surgery less invasive and more accurate- she also has subsequent patents for instruments related to cataract removal.


Improvement in paper bag machines (patent #220, 925filing/issue date 1879) : Margaret Knight has 27 separate patents ranging from rotors to automobile engines. However, she is best known for a “satchel bottom class” or paper bag machine, which made flat bottomed paper bags. The concept of this machine is still used today to make paper bags. (The Smithsonian has the model of the “satchel bottom class” )


*For information about Mary ( Elizabeth) Hallock Greenwalt and her inventions see the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection


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As part of a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary, the African Section of the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division will sponsor a program on Zambia's cultural heritage. The featured speaker will be Mulenga Kapwepwe, policy advisor in Zambia's Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development, and chair of the Zambian National Arts Council.

Zambia's Cultural Heritage is Subject of Program
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, April 13th
Location:Thomas Jefferson Building Room 220

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The titles in the public domain will be digitized by the Law Library of Congress and made available through various locations including the Library of Congress catalog.

The goal of this project is to offer a
comprehensive legal collection for Haiti.

Haiti: Legal Bibliography – Law Library of Congress
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This legal bibliography provides a list of Haitian legal titles available from the Law Library of Congress.

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How Different Jurisdictions Treat Foreign Law 2

Fri, 07 May 2010 13:57:08 -0500

Vicki C. Jackson provided the lunch presentation for the program, "How Different Jurisdictions Treat Foreign Law In Their Jurisprudence" at the Law Library of Congress.

This service is provided by the Library of Congress at www.LOC.gov.

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The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photog...

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Exhibitions » Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

ALVIN AILEY (1931–1989) founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) to carry out his vision of a company dedicated to enriching the heritage of American modern dance as well as safeguarding the uniqueness of the African American cultural experience.

Ailey’s new company of seven dancers performed for the first time on March 30, 1958, at the 92nd Street Young Men’s Hebrew Association in New York City. By the time of his untimely death in 1989, AAADT had grown into a large multiracial dance company and one of the most respected and popular modern dance companies in the world. After fifty years, AAADT has provided cherished dance experiences for more than twenty-one million people in forty-eight states and seventy-one countries on six continents.

Although he created seventy-nine ballets during his lifetime, Ailey maintained that his company was not exclusively a repository for his own work. He envisioned a company that would both commission new works and present important ones from the past. In this role, AAADT is an acknowledged treasure of American modern dance choreography, having produced over 200 works by more than 70 choreographers.

As one of the most respected modern dance choreographers of the twentieth century, Ailey’s commissions included American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and Royal Danish Ballet. He was also invited to choreograph for Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (1966) for the inauguration of the Metropolitan Opera’s new home at New York’s Lincoln Center and for Leonard Bernstein’s Mass (1971), which celebrated the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Alvin Ailey died on December 1, 1989. On December 20, 1989 Judith Jamison, Ailey’s muse for more than twenty years, was named Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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Happy Birthday - Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was one of the essential architects of the Great American Songbook.

The Performing Arts Encyclopedia features a number of his more famous songs, like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "God Bless America," but on this rainy day in Washington please enjoy this lesser known number, "Call me up some rainy afternoon."



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Law Library of Congress In continuing the celebration of its 15th anniversary, the Library's public legislative information system known as THOMAS has been updated for a second time this year. New items for the June update include expanded use of the bookmarking and sharing toolbar that was well received when introduced in January (http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-003.html), improved headers and navigation for searches, including the years with the sessions of Congress, new RSS feeds and email alerts for the Tip of the Week and Weekly Top Bills, and new pages dedicated to all the ways THOMAS can be searched or browsed.

A more in depth description of the current enhancements can be accessed through http://thomas.loc.gov/home/whatsnew062010.html.

What's New in THOMAS for June 2010
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Law Library of Congress

Have you visited our YouTube channel lately? We periodically update our Law and the Library series.

Is There Truth in Interpretation? Law, Literature and History featuring
Ronald Dworkin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=742JyiqLhuk) has almost 4,000 views.

YouTube - LibraryOfCongress's Channel
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Law and the Library is a series of debates and discussions on a wide variety of contemporary legal issues.

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The Library of Congress Curious George stars in our newest television spot in partnership withthe Ad Council.

We encourage parents to read with their children & inspire them to become curious readers for a lifetime. Visit our special literacy website at http://www.read.gov/ today!

This campaign was created with the Library of Congress in an effort to inspire young readers to become lifelong readers. The objective is to inspire fun and promote literacy in all types of learning. PSAs encourage viewers to visit www.read.gov

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention

November 4th, 2010 by Ellen Terrell


Cash register and empty shelves in closed store. Babbitt, Minnesota, "bust" iron mining town. (August 1937)

Many inventions come from a desire to solve a problem. In the business world, those problems often concern improving the way a business runs. A previous post centered on finding a way to make multiple copies of documents cheaper and faster. Today’s post celebrates the anniversary of patent number 221,360, issued on November 4, 1879, for a machine that was designed to solve the problem of employee theft.


Tool room of the National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio. c1904

James Jacob Ritty was a saloon keeper in Ohio who was trying to insure employees didn’t pocket the money from customer purchases. While it was quite rudimentary, this invention was the birth of the cash register. Eventually Ritty sold his interest in the company to a group of investors who created the National Manufacturing Company. Their company was then sold to John Henry Patterson and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson, and they renamed it the National Cash Register Company (NCR). They took Ritty’s original concept and added a paper roll for further security, and eventually added an electric motor. Continued innovations created cash registers that can do things that Mr. Ritty could never have conceived of, which businesses still use today. They are not only used for individual transactions, but are sometimes even tied into inventory systems to enhance efficiency and determine trends.


Washington Times (page 15) February 23, 1912

The Library has many photographs of the National Cash Register Company in its collections. Some are of the company’s office at 50 Rockefeller Plaza and others document the conversion of the company plant into a munitions factory during World War II. The Manuscript Division has the Jefferson Patterson papers, which include financial and legal papers from his father, Frank Jefferson Patterson, and the National Cash Register Company. The Business Reference Section has two microfiche sets that have annual reports for National Cash Register Company for 1925-1974 and for NRC Corporation from 1976-1982. To get a really interesting perspective, go to the Library’s Chronicling America project where you can see advertisements from NCR and other manufacturers.

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