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Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, June 6, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller. The Library of Congress will celebrate Joy Harjo, the first Native American

The top of the 31 levels of existence, as seen on the cosmography.  Photo: John Hessler. Geography and Map Division. This is a guest post by John Hessler, a specialist in the Library’s Geography and Map Division, focusing on computational geography and geographic information science. He’s also the Library’s curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection. Recently, the Library’s Geography and Map Division acquired a rare 18th-century carving of a Theravãda Buddhist cosmography that originated...

Library of Congress Builds New Collections Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic Collections Include Photographs of Community Impact, Web Archiving of Public Health Data and Artist Responses to the Health Crisis As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety of initiatives. The Library’s rapid-response collecting since the start of lockdowns and socia...