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• U.S. must act to preserve digital data

  - 2007-05-20

  It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than...

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• Commentary: Library of Congress is national treasure

  - 2004-07-07

  Anticipating the celebration of our nation's 228th birthday, my rekindled patriotic spirit initially wanted to find out more about the first Continental Congress. While looking on the Internet, however, I subsequently became intrigued with the unique and interesting history of the Library of Congress. I learned...

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• Library Of Congress Agrees To Buy Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Papers For $20 Million

  - 1999-11-15

  The Library of Congress recently reached a tentative agreement with the family of the late civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to purchase King's private papers for $20 million. Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. James Clyburn first introduced the measure in Congress to have it authorize...

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• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-03-08

  Educational exemptions from copyright rules should extend to digital transmissions, APTS, CPB and PBS told Library of Congress LOC March 3. In reply comments on LOC rulemaking on promoting distance learning, they asked that exemptions currently covering college courses be extended to K-12 education. Public broadcasters also reiterated...

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• U.S. Copyright Office Commissions New Report on the Future of Copyright.

  - 1998-11-01

  The Library of Congress has announced that the Copyright Office recently released a report titled "Project Looking Forward- Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World." According to the announcement, the report, commissioned from professor I. Trotter Hardy, is a part of a continuing effort...

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• Pembridge Group Announces Chairman's Inclusion In Who's Who

  - 1998-07-28

  ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--July 28, 1998--Pembridge Group Ltd. today announced its founder and chairman, Treyton L. Thomas, has been included in the Who's Who in Executives and Businesses and will be registered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Thomas founded Pembridge in 1995 and had previously held various senior executive and...

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• REPEAT/Pembridge Group Announces Chairman's Inclusion In Who's Who

  - 1998-07-28

  ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--July 28, 1998--Pembridge Group Ltd. today announced its founder and chairman, Treyton L. Thomas, has been included in the Who's Who in Executives and Businesses and will be registered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Thomas founded Pembridge in 1995 and had previously held various senior executive and...

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• Remarks at the "In the Beginning" exhibit at the Library of Congress

  - 1994-10-03

  September 28, 1994Thank you very much. President and Mrs. Yeltsin, Mr. Speaker, Senator Stevens, distinguished Members of Congress and other guests: I'd like to say a special word of commendation to Dr. Billington. I don't have an informed opinion about his Russian, but his English was impeccable this morning.I'm honored...

  Tags: America, Beginning, FINANCE, president, Russia, The Library of Congress, U.S. Congress