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|| Library Highlights ||

• National Book Festival 2008
  Nearly 70 authors on the National Mall Sept. 27
• Library Experience at myloc.gov
  NOW OPEN! New exhibitions and technologies inspire and engage
• Wise Guide to loc.gov
  Lost titles, beauty pageants, poets laureate and dapping ducks
• Webcasts from the Library
  Forum on the future of education and the economy
• Places in the News
  Headline locations from the Library's map collections
• Today in History | August 30
  Travel back in time through American Memory

|| Popular Topics & Collections  ||

• The Civil War
• Thomas Jefferson
• The Great Depression
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution

|| News from the Library  ||

• Lessons from Katrina
  First-person accounts of recovery, saving collections from Hurricane Gustav
• Political Conventions Through the Years
  Summaries of national conventions of the past available
• Herman Wouk To Be Honored Sept. 10
  Inaugural Library award for lifetime achievement in fiction
• Library Launches E-Giving
  Help the Library preserve knowledge and creativity
• Book Festival Podcasts
  Warren Brown, Arthur & Pauline Frommer talk recipes and travel

• More news and upcoming events

|| The Library at Work  ||

• Lifelong Literacy
  Encouraging children to become engaged in reading
• Flickr Photo Pilot
  Sharing photographs with a broad new audience in a Web 2.0 community
• Audio-Visual Conservation
  Preserving, and providing access to the world’s audiovisual heritage
• Digital Preservation
  Collecting and preserving digital knowledge for future generations

|| Did You Know? ||

Did you know that the term "dog days" of summer is coined after the constellation of Canis Major?

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