I've always had trouble making links to sheet music and other information in the American Memory Collection. If you go to a page at American Memory and copy-paste the URL from your browser's address bar, you'll come up with a string of characters eleventy-seven inches long. Jim Dixon heard my cries of anguish, and sent me this:

Mudcat Café personal message
7 Jun 2004 10:22 AM

From: Jim Dixon
To: Joe Offer
Title: Linking to Library of Congress


How to link to any page at the Library of Congress site:

First view the page you want to link to, and then, on your Windows Explorer toolbar, click View, then Source. When the new window opens, at the bottom of the page you will see a message something like this:

<!-- The following URL will result in display of this document -->
<!-- http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aasm:@field(NUMBER+@band(rpbaasm+0521)) -->

Copy and paste that URL into your link.

I think I learned this from a FAQ page somewhere at the LOC site.

Feel free to post this info on the Mudcat FAQ page, or the HTML PermaThread, or whatever you consider appropriate.