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Notable and Diverse Entries Join 2019 National Film Registry
Published: 11/12/2019Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announces the 2019 additions to the National Film Registry. Selected filmmakers comment upon the selection of their works. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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The Library of Congress joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Published: 10/12/2019Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, a Digital Projects Coordinator in the Digital Collections and Services Division at the Library of Congress. Digital information drives our economy, spurs ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Remembering the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Published: 10/12/2019The last twenty years of the Women’s Suffrage movement were led by a different group of activists than those who led the first fifty years, but by celebrating the anniversaries of the first conv ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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OLA's 2019 Copyright Symposium at the Intersection of Copyright Law and Indigenous Knowledge
Published: 10/12/2019During my day job, I handle copyright at an academic library, so I was supremely lucky this year that my manager was able and willing to send me to the […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Preserving the legacy of a library when a college closes
Published: 10/12/2019“I feel that, sadly, the College is closing, but the library is not. It is re-emerging in a different form.” —Mary Kickham-Samy, Director of Geschke Library, Marygrove College In June of th ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org -
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Deceptive, deviant and dextrous: Your humble petitioners?
Published: 10/12/2019What happened to petition fraudsters in the 19th century? Desperate women deserted by their sailor and soldier husbands often resorted to devious means to access their partners’ pensions as means of s ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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‘The merry adventures of two Military Attachés’
Published: 6/12/2019Serendipity often occurs in the course of archival research. While looking for something entirely unconnected, I stumbled upon a file entitled ‘Incident at Kishinev involving British Military Attaché’ ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Discovering collections, discovering communities
Published: 6/12/2019In 2019 The National Archives awarded four bursaries to support students, early career professionals, and others who would otherwise not have been able to attend, to participate in Discovering Collect ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: A Short Documentary
Published: 6/12/2019The writings and social activism of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, as read and remembered by Bryan Stevenson, Condoleezza Rice, Ken Burns, Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon Robinson and others in this short d ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Happy Birthday to the Amazing Periodic Table!
Published: 5/12/2019The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Dmitry Mendeleyev’s ground-breaking Periodic Table of the Elements, and provides an opportunity both to celebrate Mendeleyev’s historic accompl ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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What You Need to Know about Readers’ Advisory
Published: 5/12/2019It’s more than a little fitting that this post is being published today. Today marks the last class day of my third semester in library school. As hard as it […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Living with leprosy in late medieval England
Published: 5/12/2019Leprosy – now known as Hansen’s disease in order to remove the stigma with which it has often been linked – has a long and complicated history, from the ancient world to the present day, and across mu ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hacking the Master’s Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Published: 4/12/2019UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) recently had an event for its students to “hack” its graduate program. The hour-long event, titled “Managing Expectations,” was set u ... Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Sign Up for a Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop Using the Rosa Parks Papers
Published: 3/12/2019Join Library of Congress education specialists for a free one-day Teaching with Primary Sources professional development program featuring the papers of Rosa Parks on February 2, 2020 from 9am-3pm at ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Lawrence Lessig : “They Don’t Represent Us” – Conversation & Book Signing — Tuesday, December 17 at 6pm
Published: 3/12/2019Please join us at our San Francisco Headquarters on Tuesday, December 17th to hear Lawrence Lessig discuss his new book They Don’t Represent Us. RSVP Here Free, but Donations Welcome Lessig, Har ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org
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Libraries + Census = Successful Partnership
Published: 2/12/2019The 2020 Census is upon us. After many months of controversy around which questions could or could not be asked (note: citizenship is not a question); come April 1st, 2020, […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Research analytics: where do libraries fit in?
Published: 2/12/2019A researcher in the economics department wants to find a colleague on campus with expertise on how different cultures form trust networks, to join a grant proposal for a project … The post Resea ... Read moreSource: hangingtogether.org -
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‘Needs tactful and sympathetic treatment’: Mental health during the First World War
Published: 2/12/2019The image of the shell shocked soldier remains one of the most enduring of the First World War, with service personnel exposed to extreme physical and psychological trauma from which some never recove ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Behind the Scenes: Inspired by Rosa Parks
Published: 29/11/2019The following interview with Luis Clavell, Program Specialist at the Library of Congress, marks the anniversary of December 1st, 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her seat on a segregated ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Medieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383
Published: 28/11/2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people became mentally ill?' The post Medieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1 ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with the Annual Young Readers Center Puppet Show (the Day After Thanksgiving!)
Published: 27/11/2019The Young Readers Center is excited to invite you to see the annual Puppet Show on the day after Thanksgiving on November 29, 2019. This year we are sharing Native American Folktales, with stories and ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
