This feels a little like a birth announcement: The Library of Congress has launched its second official blog since the one you’re now reading took the blogosphere by storm in April 2007. (Hyperbole much?)
The Library’s Science, Technology and Business Division is an excellent addition to our growing social-media family. The very name of the division …
Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category (16 posts)
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Curators, News, Technology, science
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If you’ve visited this blog before, you might be doing a double-take.
The Web Services team here at the Library (who are doing some simply amazing things) has given the blog a fresher look and new functionality. First, there’s a cleaner, more aesthetic look to it, and I like how the collections are now highlighted in …
Posted in: Blogging, LC Web site
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Howdy, folks! (Sorry, my Wyoming roots are showing.) The Library of Congress finally has its own official Twitter feed. You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/librarycongress
“Library of Congress” was too long as a user name, so in the spirit of Twitter itself, we’ve been truncated.
As I’ve been alluding for some time, we are on the cusp …
Posted in: Blogging, Technology
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I stopped by our Prints and Photographs Division this afternoon to meet blogging legend Robert Scoble, partly because he was interviewing Helena Zinkham, the acting chief of P&P, about our Flickr project, but also to tell him how his book “Naked Conversations” has had an important impact on impelling the Library’s blog forward. Before I …
Posted in: Blogging, LC Web site, Photos, Technology
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I recently did an interview with Lisa Guidarini of the blog ?Bluestalking Reader.? (It occurs that I never asked about the name of her blog: Is it ?blue stalking,? or ?blues talking??)
An excerpt:
LG: What?s been the most memorable part of your job, since becoming Director of Communications?
MR: Wow, where to start? Every day is memorable …
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Tomorrow (July 14, 2007) the Law Library of Congress will celebrate its 175th birthday. (You can trace its history here.) Established in 1832, it was the first distinctly created unit of the Library of Congress.
We used the Library of Congress?s 207th birthday (an odd number, I know) to launch this blog, so we thought tomorrow’s …
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