scholarly journals From the Beautiful to the Bland: Amazing Treasures at the Library of Congress

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Joyce Laiosa ◽  
Stephanie Bange
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
American Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The World

Organized by ALSC’s Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee, a group of eight guests were treated to a presentation of some of the rare wonders for children at the Library of Congress (LC) while in Washington, DC, for the 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference.Our guide was Dr. Sybille A. Jagusch, chief, Children’s Literature Center in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. She manages the collection of 600,000 children’s items, acquires and purchases items for the collection, arranges lectures, plans and executes exhibitions with printed guides in many cases, and is open to sharing (as she did for us) delightful items that were once handled by children from the United States as well as the rest of the world.

scholarly journals Lagniappe: North Caroliniana: Storming the Hill: North Carolina Librarians Become Lobbyists for a Day

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Suzanne Wise
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Library ◽  
American Library ◽  
The Hill

“It was exciting!”“I felt I made a difference.”“It was empowering.”“It is probably one of the most important things I have ever done as a librarian.”These and similar reactions were shared by six librarians from North Carolina who participated in “Plant Grassroots @ Your Library” on May 7, 2002, the 28th annual National Library Legislative Day sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) to put librarians and legislators in touch with each other. Librarians from all over the United States converged on Washington, DC, to meet their legislators and discuss issues important to libraries and their constituents.

Greek Uncial Fragments in the Library of Congress in Washington

Traditio ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Jaeger Werner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Medieval Manuscript ◽  
Italian Origin

There is preserved in the Rare Book Department of the Library of Congress in Washington a sheet of parchment comprising two folia of a medieval manuscript, each covered on both sides with Greek text in uncial script. Seymour de Ricci, in his Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (N. Y. 1935, I, 211), lists this unique and precious fragment and describes it as follows:‘Library of Congress, ms. no. 60: Sermons, in Greek. Vel. (VIIIth c.), 2 ff. only (27 × 20 cm.), the 2 outer of a quire, 36 lines to a page, written in sloping uncials….Obtained in 1929 … from Casella of Naples (Ms. Ac. 4189, 10, nn. 1–6); certainly of South-Italian origin.’The catalogue does not undertake to identify the author of the text.

Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-149
Author(s):  
Gillian B. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
National Library ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Between 1800 and 1917 the music section at the Library of Congress grew from a few items in The Gentleman's Magazine to almost a million items. The history of this development provides a unique view of the infant discipline of musicology and the central role that libraries played in its growth in the United States. Between 1800 and 1870 only 500 items were acquired by the music section at the Library of Congress. In 1870 approximately 36,000 copyright deposits (which had been accumulating at several copyright depositories since 1789) enlarged the music section by more than seventy fold. After 1870 the copyright process brought an avalanche of music items into the Library of Congress. In 1901 Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, hired American-born, German-educated Oscar Sonneck to be the second Chief of the Music Division. Together Putnam and Sonneck produced an ambitious acquisitions program, a far-sighted classification, cataloging, and shelving scheme, and an extensive series of publications. They were part of Putnam's strategy to transform the Library of Congress from a legislative into a national library. Sonneck wanted to make American students of music independent of European libraries and to establish the discipline of musicology in the United States. Through easy access to comprehensive and diverse collections Putnam and Sonneck succeeded in making the Library of Congress and its music section a symbol of the free society that it served.

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