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Library of Congress Magazine September/October 2015 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 The Joy of Reading INSIDE That All May Read Books Go to War PLUS The First Great American Reader Take Me Out to the Ball Game The John W. Kluge Center at 15 WWW.LOC.GOV In This Issue SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE FEATURES Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 4 No. 5: September/October 2015 Mission of the Library of Congress The Joy of Reading 8 The Library of Congress promotes literacy nationally and The mission of the Library is to support the internationally. Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. Books in Action 14 When America sent its soldiers overseas to fight World War II, it sent Library of Congress Magazine is issued great books along, too. bimonthly by the Office of Communications of the Library of Congress and distributed free of charge to publicly supported libraries and Dots and Sound research institutions, donors, academic libraries, 16 Braille, talking books and other technological advances make reading learned societies and allied organizations in universally accessible. 4 the United States. Research institutions and President Woodrow Wilson educational organizations in other countries may arrange to receive Library of Congress Magazine on an exchange basis by applying in writing to the Library’s Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington DC 20540-4100. LCM is also available on the web at loc.gov/lcm/. DEPARTMENTS All other correspondence should be addressed to the Office of Communications, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., 02 21 22 Washington DC 20540-1610. Books That Shaped Us My Job at the Library 03 22 John W. Kluge e-mail [email protected] Favorite Places Library in History loc.gov/lcm 04 24 ISSN 2169-0855 (print) Trending Around the Library ISSN 2169-0863 (online) 06 Technology at the Library 25 News Briefs James H. Billington 07 Page From the Past 26 Shop the Library Librarian of Congress 13 27 Expert’s Corner Support the Library Gayle Osterberg Executive Editor 20 How Do I? 28 Last Word 20 Audrey Fischer For You at the Library Editor John H. Sayers 28 Managing Editor Octavia Spencer Ashley Jones ON THE COVER: Top, Children’s author Ellen Oh explores the Library’s Young Readers Center. Bottom, Designer The Library’s Main Reading Room shelves house the General Collections. Photos | Shawn Miller Shawn Miller Photo Editor Contributing Writers Deziree Arnaiz CONNECT ON Young Readers Center head Karen Jaffe shows students a special John Y. Cole Maria Comé Twitter: @librarycongress Pinterest: pinterest.com/LibraryCongress/ copy of Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” with braille pages during Youtube: Library of Congress blogs: a “Read Across America” event at the Library. Shawn Miller Kate DiCamillo youtube.com/libraryofcongress blogs.loc.gov Jennifer Gavin Facebook: facebook.com/libraryofcongress LCM online: loc.gov/lcm Mark Hartsell Flickr: flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Karen Keninger Octavia Spencer Jason Steinhauer SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 | LOC.GOV/LCM 1 Stephen Wesson THAT SHAPED US PLACES books THE MCGUFFEY favorite READERS THE LIBRARY’S LIST OF “BOOKS THAT SHAPED AMERICA” SPARKED A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON BOOKS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIVES. The McGuffey Readers, one of the nation’s first series of textbooks, not only taught reading but shaped the morals, societal standards and character of generations of Americans. The books emerged in the early 19th century to address the needs of American teachers, who often taught students of varying ages and abilities in one-room schoolhouses with few resources other than the Bible. To assist them, the Cincinnati publishing firm Truman and Smith commissioned Ohio college professor and Presbyterian minister William Holmes McGuffey to produce a series of progressively more complex primers to instruct the nation’s children. Published between 1836 and 1837, McGuffey’s four “eclectic readers” progressed from phonetic instruction for teaching basic vocabulary words to excerpted literature from well-regarded British and American writers. The texts were brimming with moral and spiritual guidance that illustrated the rewards of hard work and the consequences of vices like lying and stealing. MORE INFORMATION: One student who was profoundly influenced by the McGuffey Location: Readers was manufacturer Henry Ford (1863-1947). During his Thomas Jefferson Building lifetime, Ford collected over 468 copies of 145 different editions. Room LJ G29 In 1934, Ford paid to have McGuffey’s log-cabin birthplace (ground floor) outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, moved to the grounds of the 10 First St. S.E. Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Washington, DC 20540 202.707.1950 The McGuffey Readers, in various editions, sold more than 120 million copies by 1960—numbers comparable to the Bible Hours: and Webster’s Dictionary. Since then, they have continued to Monday through Friday be published at a rate of about 30,000 a year, mainly for use in 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. homeschooling and in private schools. Closed Saturday, Sunday For their broad and continuing influence on American society, Shawn Miller and federal holidays the McGuffey Readers are on the Library of Congress list of THE YOUNG READERS CENTER “Books That Shaped America.” Housed in the Rare Book and in the Adults can safely help their children explore Special Collections Division, the Library’s collection of more Library of Congress welcomes children, the Internet at computer stations in the than 195 editions of the McGuffey Reader was acquired in 1937 teens and adults to explore the center’s Young Readers Center. These computers as a gift from a Detroit schoolteacher. library of current and classic books, which only access kid-friendly websites such as can be read onsite. Adults can also read Read.gov, the Library’s website for readers —Deziree Arnaiz is a program assistant in the aloud to their children from a selection of of all ages. Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. preschool-appropriate books by the nation’s MORE INFORMATION best authors and illustrators. The center’s The Young Readers Center offers Story book collection is noncirculating, and Time for infants and toddlers every Friday View the exhibition “Books That Shaped America” readers are encouraged to check with their (except holidays) starting at 10:30 a.m. loc.gov/exhibits/books-that-shaped-america/ school and local public libraries for copies Free admission stickers are distributed on a “McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer,” that they can borrow and enjoy at home to first-come, first-served basis (maximum 50) McGuffey Reader Collection Cincinnati: W. B. Smith & Co., 1849 | Rare Book complete their reading. beginning at 10 a.m. and Special Collections Division loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/152.html 2 LCM | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 | LOC.GOV/LCM 3 #trending AT THE LIBRARY A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS TAKEN REPLICAS OF ITS RICH BASEBALL COLLECTIONS OUT TO THE BALLGAME. Above: Clockwise from The exhibition features seven themes: baseball inaugurated by William Howard Taft in With Major League Baseball’s World Series just around the corner, the top left: President roots, presidential pitches, congressional games, Washington on opening day, 1910. national pastime is in the news and on the minds of its avid fans. Woodrow Wilson throws music, Washington baseball history, women out the first ball at To reach a new audience in a new venue, the Library of Congress worked in the game and—using images donated by “It took time to become an annual ritual,” said opening day, 1916. servicemen to the Library’s Veterans History Susan Reyburn, co-author of the 2009 Library Prints and Photographs with its hometown team, the Washington Nationals, to mount a baseball Division; President Project—baseball and the military. publication “Baseball Americana.” “Most of them exhibition at Nationals Park. The display explores baseball’s roots and Calvin Coolidge shakes celebrates the game’s traditions—especially in the nation’s capital. seemed to have been legitimate baseball fans. hands with Washington A 1787 printing of “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book” Woodrow Wilson truly was. Calvin Coolidge was Senators pitcher Walter “Baseball Americana from the Library of Congress” debuted on the 2015 features verse and woodcut illustrations depicting not, but his wife, Grace, was a diehard fan.” Johnson at Griffith season’s opening day on the main concourse at the stadium’s home-plate outdoor activities for children—and provides the Stadium, 1924. Prints entrance and continues indefinitely. The exhibition features more than 30 earliest-known printed mention of baseball in “I think people will be very surprised that the and Photographs Division; The New York oversized facsimiles of Library treasures covering more than two centuries America. Library of Congress collects baseball materials Female Giants, 1913 of America’s pastime: the game’s origins, early competition, the men and and that this is important for the Library to Prints and Photographs women who played the game—Hall of Famers, members of Congress, Many images explore the capital’s baseball past collect,” said Senior Exhibit Director Betsy Division. soldiers—and those who cheered it on. through scenes at Griffith Stadium, the ballpark Nahum-Miller said. “They’ll see that the Library that for more than 50 years served as home to the collects all different kinds of things from Opposite: The Library’s The Library preserves the world’s largest Washington Senators. In the exhibition photos, American culture, including sports.” “Baseball Americana” exhibit is on view at collection of baseball material: sheet music, baseball Senators players raise the American League cards, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, Nationals Park.
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