Comments on: Meanwhile, About Those Abraham Lincoln Inauguration Photos

By: john

john — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:36:19 +0000

Loyola Students Launch Interactive Website in Honor of Lincoln Bicentennial

CHICAGO— Loyola University Chicago journalism students are celebrating the 200th birthday of one of our country’s greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, by launching an interactive Website in his honor.

Students enrolled in Professor John Slania’s course, Lincoln and Citizen Journalism, are studying Lincoln in contemporary society and creating a Web magazine packed full of articles, photographs, recorded audio, video, blogs, and much more. The site can be found at http://www.luc.edu/orgs/lincolnatloyola.

“Journalism is shifting in a new direction. This is a wonderful opportunity for students who want to go into journalism, as well as many others fields, to get experience by reporting, writing and telling stories on multiple platforms,” Slania said.

Organized as a newsroom within the classroom, the students act as an actual media center. They record living history and document Lincoln’s impact on America today while creating a compelling Web magazine that captures the essence of this famous president.

The students hope to learn the history and importance of our country’s 16th president and share their findings as a contribution for Illinois’ statewide Lincoln Bicentennial celebration.

This class is just one of many courses, presentations, speeches and lectures at Loyola in celebrations of the Bicentennial. Loyola is marking the event with a February 11, appearance of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin presenting a lecture on “Lincoln and Leadership.”

For additional information, contact John Slania, Journalism Program Director, at jslania@luc.edu.

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By: Geoff Elliott

Geoff Elliott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:47:52 +0000

Finding these previously misidentified photos must have been thrilling.

I’m sure there are other Lincoln photos out there for the finding.

Thanks for letting us know.

Geoff Elliott

http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com

By: David Miller

David Miller — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:31:35 +0000

LA Martin,

Isn’t it worth the risk? Our ‘media’ is already saturated with perversion and distortion. The pendulem has begun to swing and this is the prof.

Respectfully.

By: Historia i Media | Crowdsourcing w praktyce - The Commons - nowy projekt Flickra

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:56:46 +0000

[...] jednak warto było zaryzykować? Jak informuje blog Biblioteki Kongresu, już pierwszego dnia funkcjonowania projektu The Commons udało się zidentyfikować nieopisane [...]

By: L.A. Martin

L.A. Martin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:39:27 +0000

I can understand your enthusiasm. I support the motivations and benefits of Web 2.0, including flickr. I worry, though — once the comments to the photographs become ungoverned by an information professional (yes, I mean librarian) who knows what sort of information will be associated with what material. In other words, if the research if left to those who contribute to Wikipedia, we may get more comments (and not necessarily accurate) on Janet Jackson as opposed to Andrew Jackson. I hail the LOC’s contributions to flickr, but I fear that without someone fact checking the comments, our history could become perverted and distorted. What do you think? Is there a danger here to unleashing the archives to mass comment?

By: Library of Congress photos on Flickr at The Musings of Chris Samuel

Library of Congress photos on Flickr at The Musings of Chris Samuel — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:11:08 +0000

[...] potential is foreshadowed by the discovery of 3 previously misidentified images of Abraham Lincoln’s second commemoration by a user of their traditional archive! A user of our Prints and Photographs Online Catalog raised [...]

By: Web

Web — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:11:56 +0000

So happy about your flickr site

flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Do you also have a YouTube presence?