Every day banks and brokerages send and receive terabytes of data relating to the transfer of money, the rough equivalent of the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress.
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.
The donation of the UMG archive to the Library of Congress is a major gift to the nation that will help maintain the inter-generational connection that is essential to keeping alive, in our collective national memory, the music and sound recordings meaningful to past generations.
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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Private-equity executive David Rubenstein gave the first known map of the U.S. made after the Revolution to the Library of Congress and not the National Archives, as was incorrectly implied in one reference in a U.S. News article on Monday about Mr. Rubenstein's purchases of historical papers.
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.
Also, while the British Library may not be as large as the Library of Congress, it is unrivalled in terms of the range and depth of its collection and services.
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.
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution.
And you've suggested the best solution would have been for the Library of Congress or the National Archives to acquire the collection.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution.
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.
The Library of Congress has the ability to grant exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it has done in the past for smartphone users who wished to unlock their phones.
In its latest ruling, the Library of Congress decided the software on a phone is only licensed to the end user, meaning they don't own it, so therefore the software is not covered by fair-use rules.
The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200, 000 historic master recordings-many long out-of-print or never released-to the Library's Recorded Sound Section, which has more than 3 million sound recordings in its collections.
In its book "Baseball Americana, " the Library of Congress calls the item the first dated baseball card, handed out to supporters and opposing teams in a gesture of bravado from the brash Brooklynites, who were dominant and won their league championships in 1861, 1864 and 1865.
"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.
In the late 1920s, Joseph Cosey stole a pay warrant of Franklin from the Library of Congress.
For lovers of rare books and manuscripts, the Library of Congress is an enchanting place to spend the day.
The exhibit, now at the Library of Congress, is The American Violin: From Jefferson to Jazz.
"The Library of Congress is using the same software as the rest of our customers, " Miller said.
In 1924, it was put on display in the Library of Congress, for the first time ever.
This month, the Library of Congress is celebrating the bow, as well as its mate, in the exhibit, The American Violin: From Jefferson to Jazz.
In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
The disc was too fragile to play using a needle so the museum, along with researchers at the US Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developed an alternative play-back system that used light and a 3D camera to turn its bumps and grooves into sounds.
In the decade before World War II, he and his father, the famed folklorist and collector John Lomax, took several historic trips through the South collecting material while working for the Library of Congress, making the first recordings of Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell, and capturing other legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.
Its database now holds 20 terabytes, twice the size of all the printed matter at the Library of Congress.
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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It dwarfs the washed out 8-by-10-inch inkjet prints of the FSA photographers' works provided by the Library of Congress.
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