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The Library of Virginia will soon restore and digitize a volume of mid-20th-century burial records for the historic Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond.
Indeed, because the Library exercises such executive powers, the Librarian of Congress has to be an executive officer rather than a legislative one. See, e.g., Buckley v.
The Library of Congress requested Wayne Stewart, a prolific author of more than 40 books who lives in Amherst, to write an essay to accompany Chuck Thompson’s final call of Game 7 of the 1960 ...
The Library of Congress is not a community lending library. By law, it stocks pretty much every copyrighted book published in the United States. And it doesn’t allow children to access its holdings.
Members of Congress are proprietary about the library, a sentiment that has provoked bipartisan resistance after Mr. Trump summarily fired the popular chief librarian and tried to install one of ...
Exclusive GOP leaders draw the line at Trump’s Library of Congress takeover Quiet resistance from top Republicans has kept Trump officials out — for now.
WASHINGTON—The Library of Congress—long a sleepy, noncontroversial staple of the nation’s capital—has become the latest battleground in President Trump’s power struggle between the ...
The Trump administration has lots of people with two jobs, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche replacing Dr. Carla Hayden at the Library of Congress.
The firing is unusual as the Library of Congress rarely gets a new top librarian. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, Hayden was the first African American and first woman to serve as the ...
Two Justice Department officials were denied access to the Library of Congress on Monday, causing a brief standoff on Capitol Hill. The two officials—Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney ...
But employees at the agency, seeking guidance from Congress, refused entry to two other Department of Justice officials tapped for supporting roles at the Library of Congress early Monday morning.