“One of the many ways we as a library have participated in the bicentennial is we had our Maker team put together a lovely bust,” said Jessica Styons, library director at Jefferson Parish Library.

From tape measures to telescopes and air fryers, Jefferson Parish library cardholders in temporary need of everyday objects soon can turn for help not just to their friends and neighbors, but also to ...

Staffers at the Library of Congress have been looking for 250 books that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. He gave these books and several thousand more to start the library more than 200 years ago. For ...

The Jefferson Library will be seeing some changes in 2016. On the staff level that includes the retirement of Library Director Valerie Hauser. Katherine Pitman will be taking the position as of Jan.

Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress purchased a huge collection of books belonging to former President Thomas Jefferson, it remains one of America’s greatest literary treasures and has become ...

Napoleon Ave., Metairie, and will discuss Louisiana’s periods of independence with Edward J. Branley. There were two brief episodes when parts of Louisiana functioned independently: the 1768 Louisiana ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I was sitting at a table in the reading room of the rare book division of ...

2008-11-27T12:36:02-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ff7/280865-m.jpgMark Dimunation led a tour of Thomas Jefferson’s library at the Library of Congress ...