Today’s interview is with Katherine Palazzolo, 2025 Librarian-in-Residence in the Public Services Division in the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background: I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where I still have many friends and family. My parents both love reading, and growing up they made sure that books and libraries were a part of my …
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L’Enfant’s D.C. Blueprint Still Shapes Modern Washington
In 1791, President George Washington entrusted French-born American architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant with designing a plan for the nation’s capital. L'Enfant's map became the blueprint for the nation's distinctive capital city, with most of its features still evident today.
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Netherlands: Generic Designer Drug Ban Enters into Force
On July 1, 2025, a generic ban on new psychoactive substances (NPS), also known as designer drugs, entered into force in the Netherlands. The amendment to the Opium Act (Opiumwet) allows the government to ban entire groups of substances with the same chemical base to prevent the creation of new drugs that are similar to …
Join Dawn Day Biehler as she discusses her recent book, Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Barbara Bair.
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In another installment in Bibliomania's series on how books were made in the 15th-18th centuries, this post describes the processes of making woodcut illustrations, copperplate engravings, and etchings.
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