"As both a storehouse of world knowledge and primary resource for the US Congress, the Library is energized by the prospects of the Abby and Emily Rapoport Traveling Exhibition playing an important role in sharing the national collection with the people to whom it belongs," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
The exhibit will include programming especially for teachers and students and provide relevant and engaging learning experiences for lifelong learners. The truck, which will be staffed and driven by two docents well-versed in the Library and its collections, will be parked at various schools, libraries, community centers and other public venues.
The trailer expands to twice its road width, and visitors will enter from a central staircase to find several areas of museum-style exhibits including a welcoming multimedia display, computer terminals displaying Library of Congress websites including the main site, www.loc.gov and other library websites including the Center for the Book/Literacy Programs site www.read.gov and sites pertaining to US collections, exhibitions and a special site for use by teachers.
The exhibition will also outline the history of the Library, including Thomas Jefferson’s role in allowing its re-establishment following the burning of the US Capitol in 1814 by providing his personal book collection to the nation. Jefferson’s organization of his books by "Memory, Reason and Imagination" will inform the organization of the exhibition, which will feature facsimiles of such treasures as the 1507 Waldseemüller Map (the first document to use the word "America"); the 1455 Gutenberg Bible; the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson’s hand with edits by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams; the original 1962 drawings for the comic book that introduced Spider-Man to the world; the handwritten manuscript to jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton’s "Frog-i-More Rag"; and Walt Whitman’s poem Leaves of Grass.
Elizabeth Alexander
Isabel Allende
M.T. Anderson
Rae Armantrout
Mary Brigid Barrett
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Michael Buckley
Laura Bush
Suzanne Collins
Gurcharan Das
Ree Drummond
Timothy Egan
Margarita Engle
Timothy Basil Ering
Jules Feiffer
Bruce Feiler
Jonathan Safran Foer
Ken Follett
Mem Fox
Jonathan Franzen
Diana Gabaldon
Julia Glass
Allegra Goodman
Martha Grimes
Olga Grushin
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wil Haygood
David E. Hoffman
Richard Holmes
Phillip M. Hoose
Norton Juster
Elizabeth Kostova
Chang-rae Lee
Thomas Mallon
Brad Meltzer
Spike Mendelsohn
Anchee Min
Pat Mora
James McGrath Morris
Marilyn Nelson
Michele Norris
Nell Irvin Painter
Orhan Pamuk
Linda Sue Park
Katherine Paterson
Jerry Pinkney
James Ransome
David Remnick
Richard Rhodes
Steven V. Roberts
Craig Robinson
Stacy Schiff
Anita Silvey
Karin Slaughter
Jane Smiley
Jeff Smith
Scott Spencer
Rebecca Stead
Peter Straub
Evan Thomas
Natasha Trethewey
Scott Turow
Harold Varmus
Judith Viorst
Rosemary Wells
Edward O. Wilson
Gordon S. Wood
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