Archive for the Education Category (73 posts)

InRetrospect: May Blogging Edition

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The Library of Congress blogosphere was blooming with great posts. Here are a selection.

In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog

Letters reveal insight into the composer’s private life.

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

Jennifer Harbster writes about Civil War aeronautics.

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

Certain baby names are banned every year in New Zealand.

The Signal: Digital Preservation

Susan Manus presents a list of ways to get involved in digital preservation.

Teaching with the Library of Congress

Danna Bell-Russel looks ahead at some important dates in June.

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

A shop window honors Jewish heritage in its display.

From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature at the Library of Congress

Caitlin Rizzo pays homage to the first female Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library.

A Special Recording to Celebrate Casey’s 125th

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This is a post by Gayle Osterberg, the Library’s Director of Communications. There is joy in Mudville today, as we mark the 125th anniversary since “Casey at the Bat” was first published on June 3, 1888, in the San Francisco Examiner. The poem, dubbed the “single most famous baseball poem ever written” by the Baseball …

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In Retrospect: April Blogging Edition

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The Library of Congress blogosphere published lots of great content in April. Following is just a highlight. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog An “Appalachian Spring” Collaboration Students from the Baltimore School for the Arts talk about working with the Music Division collections. Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business The Great Sheet Cake Mystery Jennifer …

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InRetrospect: March Blogging Edition

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While March may have “gone out like a lamb,” the Library’s blogosphere offered a wealth of great posts. Here’s just a sampling. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog Lincoln and the Blair House Binder’s Volumes Sharon McKinley talks about musical scores belonged to the Blair family, a prominent family during the Civil War. Inside Adams: …

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InRetrospect: February Blogging Edition

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Here’s a sampling of some of the highlights in the Library’s blogosphere from February. Inside Adams: Science Technology & Business Turf Wars on the Football Field Jennifer Harbster debates the differences between natural and synthetic turf grass on the football field.  In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog In Memory of Patty Andrews and the Andrews …

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Inquiring Minds: It’s All in a Word

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With pop culture changing at such a rapid pace, it’s no wonder our language changes with the times as well. Here today, gone tomorrow as they say. I wonder where that phrase came from? Barry Popik has made it his passion to discover word and phrase etymology. A lawyer and writer, Popik is a contributor …

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Leading a Library with a Long, Long Legacy

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You’ve heard, no doubt, about the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt, which was destroyed in a fire back in antiquity. (There are still debates about who torched it and why. We’ll probably never know.) You may also have heard that the national library of Egypt – the Bibliotheca Alexandrina – was rebuilt in an architecturally …

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National Book Festival: Save the Date, Take the Survey

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There’s news on two fronts for you book-lovers out there: first, the 13th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held on the National Mall between 9th and 14th Streets on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 from noon to 5:30 p.m., rain …

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Library Signs “Declaration of Learning”

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Today, the Library of Congress joined 12 other government agencies and non-governmental organizations in signing a “Declaration of Learning” that formally announces their partnership as members of the Inter-Agency Collaboration on Education.

 The initiative is spearheaded by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who joined representatives at the signing ceremony in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms …

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The Sensei from Sioux City

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Today marks 19 years since the passing of one of the world’s great management thinkers—W. Edwards Deming. After World War II, the U.S. did something remarkable in the history of war – it helped its friends and even its former foes get back on their feet economically.  In Europe, that was accomplished through the Marshall …

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