There’s something
NEW & FREE for us to read!
The Library of Congress (LOC) has just started to produce a
bi-monthly magazine. Do check out the
September/October 2012 issue of The Library of Congress Magazine (PDF format).
As described by LOC ...
The War of 1812, often called the Second American Revolution, resulted
in the burning of the U.S.
I found the magazine very colorful, easy-to-read and full of
fun little tidbits of news both about the LOC and its holdings. As with any vast resource, for the LOC there
is so much going on that it becomes challenging to keep current with what’s new
and to also appreciate its history and resources already made available to us –
the public.
The LOC is invaluable – both its architecture and contents
are amazing! It also has an incredibly
diverse online presence, http://www.loc.gov/index.html, which I cannot even begin to
adequately describe and do justice to.
As stated in this initial volume ...
When Congress purchased Thomas Jefferson’s wide-ranging personal book
collection to restart the congressional library, Jefferson
observed, “There is no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion
to refer.” More than two centuries
later, the Library continues to draw from its vast collections to serve the
research needs of Congress, while sharing its rich resources with the nation
and the world.
The LOC is truly a resource for all of us! And, it’s nice that there is now a magazine
to give a voice to this invaluable repository.
I am hoping that, like Prologue (produced by NARA), this will
become a publication often referenced by us as we research our ancestors and
seek context about their lives and the records created about them.
What did you think of the new The Library of Congress Magazine?
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Several more editions, including the newest, Vol. 2 No. 2: March-April 2013, now available at http://www.loc.gov/lcm/
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