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Reports the announcement of the United States Library of Congress that it has added to and expanded collections available online from its American Memory Web site. The site as a project of the National Digital Library Program; `American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920,' a collection from the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; George Washington Papers; Other materials.

The article informs about 2019 American Library Association annual conferences and Exhibition, held at June 20–25, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Topics discussed include e lifetime of thinking about spirituality and the importance of sharing stories translated into a celebration; the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, when those in power realized the danger of letting information spread to the populace; library card information at the library's entrance.

Reports that 68 applications were submitted by ninety-nine institutions in the second round of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. Who the applications are evaluated by; When award winners will be announced; Reason the Library of Congress is sponsoring the competition; Contact point for more information on the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.

Reports that the ethnographic field collection `Voices of the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection' from the Library of Congress is available from the American Memory Program at its web site address. Contents of the collection; Reference to the documentation of the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941; Contact point for source of the collection.

Reports on the United States Library of Congress' addition of two online collections to its American Memory Project. Library program which this project is part of; Details on the aims and focus of this project; Supporters of the initiative; Detailed information on the collections.

Presents information on the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) photographic collection relating to the Great Depression to World War II, which is offered by the Library of Congress. Web site at which the collection can be viewed; Details on the first release of the FSA-OWI collection; Information on the access features.

Reports on the naming of the Library of Congress's American Memory historical collections, as `the best Web sites of 1996' by Time magazine. Features of the site.