Now that we have a couple of years or more of using social media to benefit the Library’s missions, we’re letting other folks around the institution get in the act.
The “Books and Beyond” series in the Center for the Book launched a Facebook page, which is essentially an online book club, with the recent National …
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“May Day!” is a well-known distress call. But “MayDay” is also a project to help prevent distress of another kind: Archives, libraries, museums and historic preservation organizations have set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, an initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters.
For our part, the Library last year contributed a “mutual assistance” charter …
Posted in: Collections, Libraries, Preservation, science
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I want to preface this post by reiterating one of our general disclaimers up front, to wit: “This blog does not represent official Library of Congress communications.” Because this post will edge slightly closer to “editorializing” than most of my previous posts.
Working in the Office of Communications as I do, I’m aware of the …
Posted in: Books, Collections, LC Web site, Libraries, Technology
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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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A staff member here at the Library pointed me to this article in The New York Times about a revamped test immigrants must pass before they may become citizens.
The article talks about the pros and cons of both the old test and the new.? The aim, according to the story, was to get away from …
Posted in: History, LC Web site, Libraries, News
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I came across a piece today from ?Inside Higher Ed? and felt a need to correct the record. The article, the subject of which was Open Library, stated in part:
Q: Some serious questions have come up about the shrinking depth of subject cataloging from the book records issued by the Library of Congress. …
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