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Pic of the Week: Library and Military Service Academies Collaborate on Collections Access
Published: 22/09/2017The Library of Congress and the U.S. military service academies signed a cooperative agreement this week to provide researchers with enhanced access to the institutions’ collections and grow rep ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Watch: Author Rick Riordan from the Library of Congress, Tuesday, October 3, 10:30 AM EDT
Published: 22/09/2017The Library of Congress invites you and your students to join in a virtual program that features best-selling author—and former classroom teacher—Rick Riordan. He will be talking wit ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Ditch the Motors: Inspiration for Car Free Day
Published: 22/09/2017September 22 is World Car Free Day, an annual event when participants around the world set aside their car keys and find alternative methods for getting to work. This annual observance goes back to th ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Free to Use and Reuse: Adolph Metzner Civil War Drawings
Published: 22/09/2017This is a guest post by Julie Stoner, a reference librarian in the Geography and Map Division. It was first published on “Picture This,” the Prints and Photographs Division’s blog. W ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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The ‘spider’ man’s legacy in British animation
Published: 22/09/2017As briefs for commissioned films go, at first glance this is not the most promising: Object: To make clear that Local Government is a continuously extending system which has rapidly... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Primary Sources Discovered and Investigated by Our Interns
Published: 21/09/2017We thought it would be a unique way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month--as well as the work of our former interns--by highlighting some of their blog posts related to Hispanic heritage. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Latest News: Haskell Named Kluge Center Director
Published: 21/09/2017John R. Haskell, an accomplished political scientist, author and professor, has been named director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Click here for more information . Read moreSource: www.loc.gov -
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Accidental Special Librarian – advice for when you decide to pursue the “alternate” path
Published: 21/09/2017Like many LIS students, I went into the program with the goal of someday working at a library as a professional librarian. I set off on my MLIS journey through […] Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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TV news chyron data provide ways to explore breaking news reports & bias
Published: 21/09/2017Today the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive announces a new way to plumb our TV news collections to see how news stories are reported: data feeds for the news that appears as chyrons on the lower thi ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org
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The generation game: evolving with the digital record
Published: 21/09/2017We’ve had quite a lot of practice at being an archive: we’ve been looking after the public record for over 150 years. Most of the fundamentals of archival practice were... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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I Am Not “Just the Diversity Hire”: Racial Difference, Authenticity, and Tokenism in Academic Libraries
Published: 20/09/2017Today we welcome a post by Veronica Arellano Douglas as part of our collaboration with ACRLog (the blog of the Association of College and Research Libraries). Veronica Arellano Douglas is a Reference ... Read moreSource: hacklibraryschool.com -
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Welcoming Jer Thorp as Innovator-in-Residence
Published: 20/09/2017Starting this week, acclaimed data artist Jer Thorp began his tenure as the 2017 Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence. He will spend six months with the National Digital Initiatives team explori ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Trending: Congressional Black Caucus Takes Center Stage
Published: 20/09/2017This week, thousands of people from around the country will gather in the vast Washington, D.C., Convention Center to take part in a decades’ old tradition: the annual legislative conference of ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Indigenous Canadian soldiers in the First World War
Published: 20/09/2017From a population numbering 7.88 million, over 620,000 Canadians served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) between 1914 and 1919. This number included over 4,000 Canadian Indians from a total.. ... Read moreSource: nationalarchives.gov.uk -
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Latest News: Library Launches labs.loc.gov
Published: 19/09/2017The Library of Congress today launched labs.loc.gov, a new online space that will host a changing selection of experiments, projects, events and resources designed to encourage creative use of the Lib ... Read moreSource: www.loc.gov
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MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Award Finalists
Published: 19/09/2017Today, the MacArthur Foundation announced the finalists for its 100&Change competition, awarding a single organization $100 million to solve one of the world’s biggest problems. The Internet Archi ... Read moreSource: blog.archive.org -
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points: From Shorthand Notes to a Nobel Prize
Published: 19/09/2017At first glance, most students, and even many adults, might dismiss these shorthand notes as a page of scribbles, but they sketch out a plan for international peace. Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Inquiring Minds: Hunting for Treasure in the Manuscript Division
Published: 19/09/2017Ross Davies has been a regular in the Library’s Manuscript Division for about two decades now. He has worked with papers of Supreme Court justices, consulted collections on the federal courts an ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
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Latest News: Library of Congress and U.S. Military Service Academies Sign Cooperative Agreement
Published: 18/09/2017The Library of Congress and the five U.S. Service Academies today entered an inter-agency cooperative agreement to support growth of service member representation in the national collections at the Li ... Read moreSource: www.loc.gov -
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Trending: An App to Answer Your Questions about the Constitution
Published: 18/09/2017This is a guest post by Margaret M. Wood, legal reference librarian in the Law Library. Two years ago, in honor of Constitution Day—celebrated annually on September 17—I wrote a post about ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov -
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Artwork by Chicano Movement “Artivist” Mario Torero
Published: 15/09/2017The following is a guest post by Katherine Blood, Curator of Fine Prints, Prints & Photographs Division. When Juan Felipe Herrera was exploring Library of Congress collections to share through his ... Read moreSource: blogs.loc.gov
