InRetrospect: February Blogging Edition

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 Sisters

Chris Hartten and Mark Horowitz remember Andrews Sister front woman Patty Andrews.

  • In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

Washington’s Farewell Address

Pres. George Washington gives advice to the new nation.

  • The Signal: Digital Preservation

After the Flood: Digital Art Recovery in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy

A New York City art gallery documents recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy.

  • Teaching with the Library of Congress

Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln: The Writer and Abolitionist Remembers the President in Library of Congress Primary Sources

Library of Congress resources highlight friendship between Lincoln and Douglass.

  • Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

George Washington Carver: More Than a Name

What do the photographs tell you about the successful scientist, inventor and educator?

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

Visitors Welcome

The Poet Laureate is in residence and receiving guests.

Leading a Library with a Long, Long Legacy

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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Was Richard “Rubbished?”

The wonders of modern science were used to positively identify a set of human bones found under an asphalt parking lot in England (site of a former church) as those of Richard III – a former king of England and one of Shakespeare’s most memorable villains. The world was fascinated – it isn’t every day …

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Library Signs “Declaration of Learning”

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

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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Inquiring Minds: Scholar Manuel Castells on Social Movements

The following is a guest post by Jason Steinhauer, program specialist in the Library’s John W. Kluge Center, as part of the Inquiring Minds series. The revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests and wars known collectively as the Arab Spring has spanned Algeria to Oman, covering a distance of 3,400 miles and toppling regimes that governed …

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Congress.gov Unveiled Today

Library of Congress and Capitol Hill staff gathered today in the historic Thomas Jefferson Building for a special event launching Congress.gov, a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. Featuring platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation, the new site eventually will replace the THOMAS system, introduced in 1995. “Thomas Jefferson …

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In Retrospect: June Blogging Edition

Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on in the Library of Congress blogosphere in June. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog “How to Find Your Snooky Ookums: A Guide to the Irving Berlin Collection” Pat Padua presents a guide to the Irving Berlin Collection. The Signal: Digital Preservation “Every Format on the Face of …

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