For the past 10 weeks, 47 college students have been digging through a variety of Library of Congress collections–finding amazing stuff so people like you can come here and get lost in it.
Such as?
Such as an ad for a patent medicine that figured in an 1898 murder case; a first edition in Russian of …
Archive for the ‘Cataloging’ Category (6 posts)
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Books, Cataloging, Collections, Copyright, Education, Poetry
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Today is one of my favorite days of the year, because it is one of the most compelling versions of “show and tell” anyone will ever get to see!
Every year for the past few years, thanks to the generosity of the late Mrs. Jefferson Patterson and the James Madison Council, the Library of Congress’s private-sector …
Posted in: Cataloging, Collections, Copyright, Events, Exhibitions, History
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I can imagine affecting my best Andy Rooney voice as I type this, but did ya? ever notice how I tend to blog a lot more on Fridays? Well, the phone usually rings less and I am pulled into fewer meetings, so I try to squeeze in a few moments to blog.
At any rate, our …
Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Congress, Libraries, News
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There has been a bit of a blogospheric brouhaha over what the Library of Congress charges to make its entire Copyright database available (see here and here, for example)?enough so that we have now put out this statement:
Regarding Pricing on Bulk Access to Copyright Cataloging Information
Recent questions and concerns have arisen regarding the cost of …
Posted in: Cataloging, Congress, Copyright, News
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