my grief over dolly and tim curry is absolutely parasocial but you can't understate the impact that both of those people had for queer people, for women, for people who have always had "weird" interests and big personalities, they were icons for anyone strange
Our team, our local program partners, and every operational partner who helps make this program possible each month are heartbroken at the loss of our founder, Dolly Parton. (cont.)
It's National Comic Book Day! The Library has one of the nation's largest collections of comic books but, unlike the heroes depicted on their pages, not all of the volumes are in great shape. Here's how Library technicians care for the collection. ⬇️ https://t.co/rkunPWpe8q
Tomorrow/Mañana! Join us in the Hispanic Reading Room (Room LJ 240) @librarycongress to celebrate Latino Poetry with Juan Felipe Herrera, Ruth Behar, and Maria Kelson, moderated by Dan Vera✨
Happy Star Trek Day!
From the @librarycongress collection: the original sheet music from the series by Alexander Courage and Gene Roddenberry. 🖖🏽
#StarTrekDay#StarTrek
A huge honor for any recording artist, singer, songwriter, composer, or recording engineer! Share your nominations with the board for recommendation to the Librarian of Congress who makes the ultimate selection: https://t.co/KjUnf4eCOt
It's the first official day of summer in the northern hemisphere! ☀️ Here's hoping you get to experience the best parts of the season, some of which are illustrated here with images from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. 🍦🏖️📚🎡
The National Book Festival author lineup is HERE! 📚🎉 Check out the 90+ authors who will join us at the Washington Convention Center on August 24th! #NatBookFest
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And of course meeting, learning from, and chatting with the iconic Barbara Carrasco, Chicana artist, activist, and muralist 🤩 thank you, gracias, thank you ❤️🔥
See the finished piece here: https://t.co/zrMPDaKJyg
“Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress“ is now open ✨ Hear my tiny contribution at the interactive table’s scroll display featuring Barbara Carrasco’s pencil sketch for her legendary mural “L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective,” 1981.
I also got to work with the insanely talented members of the Library’s exhibits teams, led at the time by exhibit curator Cheryl Regan and now Brigid Laurie 👑 The biggest h/t goes to Katrina Petrovich Byas for absolutely inspired art direction and animation 🖼️
Hundreds of people are lined up on the streets of Cape May to transport the books of the Cape May library branch to the new location in the old Franklin Street School, set to open today after an extensive renovation.
The @librarycongress has one of the largest comic book collections in the world and it includes the original Spider Man drawings by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee.
You can see it part of the new Library of Congress David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery opening Thursday night, June 13.
NEW VIDEO SERIES: Meg Medina, our National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, has launched “Cuéntame!: Let’s Talk Books!", a series of chats with notable children's & young adult authors, starting with Wendy Wan-Long Shang & Jarrett Krosoczka. More: https://t.co/psKVOLIoYg
Spell your name with @taylorswift13 songs 🫶✨
D - Delicate
A - Anti-Hero
N - Nothing New
I - invisible string
T - The Great War
H - High Infidelity
U - Untouchable
R - Red
B - betty
E - Enchanted
R - …Ready For It?