Category: Ask a Librarian

Poetry Contests, the National Library of Poetry, and Amateur Poetry Anthologies

March 29, 2012

Posted by: Peter Armenti

One of my jobs as a digital reference specialist is to answer questions submitted through the Poetry and Literature Center’s Ask a Librarian form. The questions I receive tend to cluster around two or three major categories, such as how to find literary criticism on a novel and how to locate the full text of …

Posted in: Ask a Librarian, Digital Resources

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes

January 18, 2012

Posted by: Robert Casper

The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. As Rob Casper and Peter Armenti have introduced themselves in previous blogs, I’ll try to tell you a little about myself here. My name is Abby Yochelson, …

Posted in: Ask a Librarian