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 ‘Curators’ Category (12 posts)
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Curators, News, Technology, science
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You know how some of the best jobs are the ones where you learn something new every day? I definitely have one of those.
I was watching a new episode of History Detectives last night on PBS (one of the few shows to which I am hopelessly addicted). Tukufu Zuberi did a segment about a letter …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts, Preservation
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The Library of Congress acquires some 10,000 items a day for its collections. But many of our finest acquisitions are not bound between leather covers or captured on a reel of celluloid: They are the people who make our collections come alive, who unearth meaning and inspiration among our 653 miles of stacks.
One such …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Curators
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The general webby reaction to our pilot project with Flickr, which launched “The Commons,” has been rather Oliver Twist-like: “More, please!”
We started with thousands of Bain news photos from the 1910s and color images from the 1930s and 1940s (a project of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information). For Veterans Day …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Curators, Events, Exhibitions, History, Photos
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Our very own John Hessler was featured in today’s Washington Post talking about some of the mysteries behind one of the grand-daddies of all maps, the 1507 Martin Waldseemüller World Map, the document that named “America” and one of the Library’s toppest of the top treasures. (OK, we don’t categorize the treasures quite that …
Posted in: Curators, History, Maps, News
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Exhibits, especially major ones, take a lot of planning, often years’ worth.
There is fund-raising, exhibit design, curatorial work, object selection, conservation, writing the label texts, brochure design, fabrication, mounting, installation … and several other steps that I’m undoubtedly forgetting.
On Feb. 12, we’re opening the major exhibition “With Malice Toward None,” celebrating the 200th anniversary of …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, News
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The DVD for “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” isn’t released until Tuesday, May 20, but we here at one of the chief locations in the film managed to get our hands on a copy.
The two-disc collectors’ edition and the Blu-Ray edition include a bonus feature titled “Inside the Library of Congress,” and I have to …
Posted in: Curators, News, Thomas Jefferson Building
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Have you ever thought about what it might be like to try to walk through all of the shelves at the Library of Congress? Maybe not, but we LOC people love to mull over the sheer magnitude of this place.
You might have seen statistics here or there that have referred to somewhere in the vicinity …
Posted in: Curators, Events, Libraries, News
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John Haynes of the Library of Congress?s Manuscript Division addresses guests in the Library?s Madison Hall as NED President Carl Gershman, right, listens. The blonde woman in the audience with her back to the camera is actress/activist Mia Farrow. (Photo by me.)
Even in the midst of partisan squabbling for which Washington, D.C., has always been …
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