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  Obama honors Carole King at White House concert

  President Barack Obama, saluting Carole King's five decades as an award-winning singer-songwriter, said Wednesday that music often is a place where ... 

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  Library honors Carole King with US pop music prize

  Carole King isn't done with music — not yet anyway. The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" ... 

• Va. journal hires Library of Congress director

  A top literary journal founded in 1925 has hired a Library of Congress director to be its new editor. The Virginia Quarterly Review announced ... 

• Don DeLillo honored by Library of Congress

  Don DeLillo has won the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Widely acknowledged as a master chronicler of American dread and ... 

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  Library of Congress wins special Grammy Award

  The music industry honored the Library of Congress with a special Grammy Award on Wednesday night for its work over the past decade to preserve ... 

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  Hymnal that dates to 1640 could fetch $30M

  A tiny hymnal from 1640 believed to be the first book ever printed in what is now the United States is going up for auction, and it could sell for as ... 

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  British Library sets out to archive the Web

  Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the ... 

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  Simon & Garfunkel album among 25 to be preserved

  Simon & Garfunkel 's song "The Sound of Silence," written amid the turmoil following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Chubby Checker's ... 

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  Library of Congress has plan for saving recordings

  The Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan Wednesday to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing ... 

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  Rare baseball card brings $92K in Maine auction

  A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale has been auctioned for $92,000. The card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics ... 

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  US library to honor Carole King with music prize

  Carole King has a friend in the Library of Congress. She's the first woman to win the library's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. In her five decades ...