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Discusses the appearance of seven members of the American Library Association before the joint committee on the Library of Congress in Washington. Passage of a bill containing appropriations available up to the end of June 1897; Recommendations for librarians' salaries and book appropriations; The Congressional Library as a white elephant on the hands of Congress; Why it should be a National Library; More; Reprinted from `Library Journal,' January 1897.

Reports that eleven libraries, museums, and historical societies have garnered awards from the Library of Congress (LC)/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. American Memory, the four-year-old LC initiative to place millions of historic items online; Listing of the individual winners.