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Vote for the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal FictionMay 16, 2019 at 6:39 PM Members of the public can help determine the winner of the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
The prize, which is sponsored by ABA Journal and the University of Alabama School of Law, is “given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change.”
It was established in 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The three finalists this year are:
The Boat Peo...Tags: Law, Washington, Harper Lee, Library Of Congress, ABA Journal, University of Alabama School of Law, Justice Issues, Sujata Massey, Malabar Hill, Sharon Bala, Steven B Frank 2 people like this. Like Ogle These Vintage Public-Domain Cat Pictures From the Library of CongressMay 15, 2019 at 4:00 PM  Tags: Images, Photos, Art, Photography, Cats, History, Lifehacks, Library Of Congress, Public Domain 117 people like this. Like Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th CenturiesMay 1, 2019 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Books, Congress, College, Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, K-12, Libraries, Santa Claus, Jack, Library Of Congress, Howard Pyle, Facebook Twitter, Jimmy, Josh Jones, Gustave Doré 66 people like this. Like The Checkup: In Classic Children’s Books, a Window to Childhood in Past CenturiesApril 29, 2019 at 7:00 AM Rare children’s books, made available online through the Library of Congress, show both the constants and the evolution in children’s literature.Tags: News, Library Of Congress, Books and Literature, Children and Childhood, Libraries and Librarians, Newbery Medal Library of Congress collection used for wartime comic book researchApril 16, 2019 at 5:04 PM  Tags: Comics, Congress, America, History, Racism, World War 2, World War Ii, Propaganda, Library Of Congress, Board, Mike Rhode, Captain Marvel, Justice Society of America, Street Smith, Paul Hirsch, DC Comics Fawcett Comics 55 people like this. Like Cary Joji Fukunaga, Nicole Kassell Developing Last of the Mohicans SeriesApril 11, 2019 at 2:30 PM  Tags: Better Call Saul, TV, Movies, James Bond, Library Of Congress, Hawkeye, Cary Fukunaga, Cora, Daniel Day Lewis, Kassel, Fukunaga, Paramount Television, Paramount TV, James Fenimore Cooper, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Uncas 52 people like this. Like Persian-Language Manuscripts Now Online.April 6, 2019 at 5:24 PM Good news from the Library of Congress:
In celebration of the Persian New Year, also known as Nowruz, the Library of Congress has digitized and made available online for the first time the Rare Persian-Language Manuscript Collection, which sheds light on scientific, religious, philosophical and literary topics that are highly valued in the Persian speaking lands. This collection, including 150 manuscripts with some dating back to the 13th century, also reflects the diversity of religious and con...Tags: Uncategorized, Library, Linguistics, Library Of Congress, Jami, Congress Every, Nizami Ganjavi, Nowruz the Library of Congress, Saadi Hafez Rumi, First Unitarian Church of Oakland California DC, but make it glam: Queer Eye's fab five meet AOC in WashingtonApril 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM  Tags: New York, News, Instagram, Washington, Netflix, United States, Washington Dc, House, Capitol Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Customs, Library Of Congress, Aoc, Van Ness, Steny Hoyer, Washington Monument 115 people like this. Like Theatre Critic Nancy Pelosi: Broadway’s “Mockingbird” Is A Play For Our TimeApril 3, 2019 at 2:29 PM  Tags: Art, Theatre, Broadway, Nancy Pelosi, Library Of Congress, Pelosi, Educational Theatre Association, 04.02.19 66 people like this. Like Navigating the Deep Riches of the WebApril 1, 2019 at 9:30 AM  Tags: Wtf, News, Congress, Russia, Brown University, Ibm, Miles Davis, North, Ansel Adams, North America, Library Of Congress, British Library, Caribbean, New England, Leipzig, Josh Marshall 71 people like this. Like Who is the one true Batman? That answer and more as the Caped Crusader turns 80 at WonderConMarch 27, 2019 at 11:21 AM  Tags: Books, Christopher Nolan, Ben Affleck, Superman, Tim Burton, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, United States, Christian Bale, George Clooney, Gotham City, Bruce Wayne, Batman, Dc, Disneyland 61 people like this. Like April 9: Emergence of the Comic Strip in the 19th Century talk at Library of CongressMarch 27, 2019 at 11:02 PM  Tags: Twitter, Comics, Usa, Congress, Washington, United States, Washington Dc, Library Of Congress, Ada, Alley, Hogan, U S Congress, Mike Rhode, James Madison Building, University of Texas at Austin He, U S Copyright Office Explore 73 people like this. Like 12 WonderCon events to see at the Anaheim comic and cosplay conventionMarch 26, 2019 at 12:23 PM  Tags: Books, Jennifer Lawrence, Amc, Superman, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Gotham, Things To Do, Soccer, San Diego, Cbs, Harley Quinn, San Jose, Vancouver, Michael Fassbender 93 people like this. Like JAY-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ to be Archived in the Library of CongressMarch 20, 2019 at 12:45 PM Already widely regarded as his best work, the legend of JAY-Z’s The Blueprint continues to grow. Today the National Recording Registry announced that Hov’s 2001 LP is being archived in the Library of Congress alongside other iconic records including Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly, Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam,” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September.”
Read more after the jump…
Started in 2002, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry aims to catalog sound recordings that are “cu...Tags: Congress, Jay-z, United States, Jazz, Library Of Congress, De La Soul, Nina Simone, Music News, Woodstock, Curtis Mayfield, Good For Hip Hop, The Blueprint, National Recording Registry, Congress National Recording Registry 34 people like this. Like Jay-Z’s ‘Blueprint’ Named to National Registry, Along With ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ ‘Superfly,’ Nina Simone and MoreMarch 20, 2019 at 9:19 AM “Minnie the Moocher,” meet “The Blueprint.” The recordings being inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry for 2019 range from Cab Calloway’s 1931 signature single to a landmark 2001 Jay-Z album, with stops along the way for Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s […]Tags: News, Congress, Jay Z, Library Of Congress, Neil Diamond, Nina Simone, Jay, Cyndi Lauper, Curtis Mayfield, Minnie the Moocher, National Recording Registry 29 people like this. Like This Fun Fact Will Change the Way You Watch the Movie Airplane!March 18, 2019 at 1:02 PM  Tags: Science, Plagiarism, Airplane, Airport, Parodies, Library Of Congress, Zucker Brothers, Ted Stryker, Zero Hour, Film Registry 127 people like this. Like Supreme Court Requires Completed Copyright Registration Before Filing Suit–Fourth Estate Public Benefit v. Wall-Street (Guest Blog Post)March 11, 2019 at 2:44 PM Guest Blog Post by Tyler Ochoa
On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC, No. 17-571, 139 S.Ct. ____, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 1730. The case involved the interpretation of section 411(a) of the Copyright Act, which provides: “no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until preregistration or registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance with this title.” The questi...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Congress, Court, Copyright, United States, Library Of Congress, Oracle, Slip, Beard, Copyright Office, U S Supreme Court, Roberts, Congressional, Ginsburg, Ninth Circuit 2 people like this. Like "The Black Composer," 1972 PBS Special, is now at WGBH & Library of CongressMarch 10, 2019 at 8:56 PM William Gaddis writes: The 90-minute PBS Special, THE BLACK COMPOSER (1972), is now available to the public on location at WGBH and the Library of Congress . Deemed a significant creative effort and a historical work, the film (on videotape) of this all-black classical music concert has been digitized and preserved for posterity. Made before the advent of computers, there has never been another program like it. Researchers who are not physically at the Library of Congress or WGBH...Tags: Religion, Library Of Congress, WGBH, William Gaddis, William J Zick, William L Gaddis 26 people like this. Like Registration of Copyright Needed to SueMarch 4, 2019 at 3:23 PM Many years ago, as a young lawyer, I experienced the utter joy of helping a client dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit against it, because the plaintiff’s claimed copyright hadn’t yet been registered with the Library of Congress.
Seemed like an obvious error for the plaintiff to file when it did, since the federal copyright statute, according to my reading, required that registration be made (or denied) before a lawsuit could be brought, mere application was not enough.
Over the last twenty...Tags: Congress, Articles, Infringement, United States, Library Of Congress, Branding, Copyrights, Copyright Office, U S Supreme Court, Ginsburg, Steve Baird, Copyright Act, Law Suits, Fourth Estate Pub Benefit Corp 34 people like this. Like MiamiLaw Student Wins National Writing AwardFebruary 26, 2019 at 12:48 PM  Tags: Library Of Congress, American Bar Association, Association, Elizabeth Montano, Lead Sponsor Law360 and Co Sponsored 103 people like this. Like Pilot in deadly Yorba Linda crash twice disciplined by federal safety boardFebruary 9, 2019 at 1:42 AM  Tags: News, Congress, Sport, Chicago, Soccer, Davis, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Nevada, Library Of Congress, Faa, HOF, Federal Aviation Administration, Dennis, National Transportation Safety Board, Carson City 91 people like this. Like Thought for the day, Feb. 4, 2019February 4, 2019 at 9:00 AM Betty Friedan, 1960. (Photo by Fred Palumbo/New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection in the Prints and Photographs division at the Library of Congress)
Betty Friedan, feminist leader and writer
“The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution fall short of their human capacity.” (from “The Feminine Mystique,” 1963)
Feb. 4, 1921-Feb. 4, 2006
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Thought for the day, Feb. 3, 2019
...Tags: Sport, Soccer, Local News, Library Of Congress, San Fernando Valley, Thought For The Day, Betty Friedan, Fred Palumbo, New York World Telegram and Sun Collection 49 people like this. Like Want to Grow Your Business? Invest in Growing Your Employees FirstFebruary 3, 2019 at 3:38 PM By Gregory Eisen
The following quotes are my favorites to articulate the importance of learning and personal growth:
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”—Nelson Mandela
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”— John F. Kennedy
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more than you learn, the more places you’ll go.”—Dr. Seuss
Y...Tags: Productivity, Learning, Sales, Company Culture, Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy, Morale, Library Of Congress, Personal Development, Petra, Personal Growth, Mahatma Gandhi, Your Career, Gregory Eisen, New York Public Library You 15 people like this. Like Jan 31: New Herblock exhibit opens at Library of CongressJanuary 30, 2019 at 11:04 AM Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times Jan. 31, 2019 – Aug. 17, 2019 A new exhibition, "Art in Action," will explore the tradition of artists as social commentators. Drawings by renowned editorial cartoonist Herblock will be paired with historical and contemporary artists' prints, drawings and posters that respond to major issues from the 17th century to the current day. As a political cartoonist for The Washington Post and other newspa...Tags: Comics, Washington Post, Pablo Picasso, Library Of Congress, Mike Rhode, Herblock, Herbert L Block, Jacques Callot Francisco de Goya, Leopoldo Méndez, Helen Zughaib 25 people like this. Like 'Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers' Brings Forth a Time When, Unlike Today, Women Made Lots of MoviesJanuary 25, 2019 at 9:30 AM  Tags: Feature, Music, Florida, Hollywood, Molly, India, US, America, Ireland, North Dakota, Jane Austen, Algeria, Silent Film, Library Of Congress, Oscar Wilde, Gaumont 148 people like this. Like Library Of Congress Regrets Tweet About ‘Stonewall’ Jackson On MLK DayJanuary 22, 2019 at 11:30 AM The Library of Congress late Monday said it regretted tweeting about Confederate Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“We published a post earlier today that was pre-programmed from our Today in History site about Stonewall Jackson because Jan. 21 was his date of birth,” the Library tweeted. Earlier, it had published a link to an article about Jackson on its account.
“We sincerely regret publishing this tweet on the day that we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King...Tags: News, Congress, Nbc News, Jackson, Library Of Congress, Martin Luther King Jr, Stonewall Jackson, Matt Shuham, Martin Luther King Jr Library of Congress 6 people like this. Like Politiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills, launches on android devicesJanuary 21, 2019 at 6:39 PM Last September, two former National Football League players launched an app called Politiscope to track the voting records of members of Congress and the bills that they were introducing — and provide non-partisan information about what those bills and votes would mean to voters.
The pro-football-playing brothers, Walter Powell Jr. and Brandon Williams, launched the app to provide an accurate accounting of what Congressional leadership was doing — something the two felt was necessary given the p...Tags: Android, TC, Politics, Congress, Government, Senate, Office, Tech, United States, House Of Representatives, National Football League, Library Of Congress, Pew Research Center, Electronic Voting, Powell, Congressional 3 Legal Challenges Your Small Business Might FaceJanuary 21, 2019 at 9:00 AM  Tags: Sales, Management, Library Of Congress, LLC, United States Patent and Trademark Office 122 people like this. Like Autobiography from 1831 provides rare, firsthand account of a Muslim slave in AmericaJanuary 17, 2019 at 2:47 PM The man's disheartening story, told a quarter-century after his arrival in South Carolina, is now online after the Library of Congress published the essay, the only known surviving autobiography of a Muslim-American slave.Tags: America, Cnn, Library Of Congress, South Carolina 5 people like this. Like Slavery, Piracy, and Shirtless Men in Silent Film, 'Old Ironsides'January 8, 2019 at 5:04 PM  Tags: Music, Hollywood, Cook, Review, Drama, Congress, America, History, David, Silent Film, Library Of Congress, Mediterranean, North Africa, Film Review, Thomas Jefferson, Henry King 77 people like this. Like |
