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By: Brian McCurdy
For our latest NLS Music Notes blog post, we are very excited to announce our most recent additions to BARD! Read on to find out what braille scores and audio books are now available for download.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
The Packard Campus Theater will resume showings on January 4, 2024
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Douglas D. Peach
This post celebrates the launch of Archive Activation, a website to empower anyone with an internet connection to share their COVID-19 experiences, or interview someone else about their COVID-19 story. Submitted stories will then be deposited into archives of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, creating a diverse archive of American experience during this tumultuous time in our national history. Archive Activation is a collaboration between the American Folklife Center and StoryCorps.
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Liz Tencer
This post is part of the semi-annual blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Joshua Kueh
The Library gathers many stunning examples of the great poetic traditions across the globe, one of them being the Urdu masnavi, "Sihr ul-Bayan," by the Indian poet, Mir Hasan.
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
By: Heather Darnell
The following is a guest post by Music Division Reference Librarian Dr. Stacey Jocoy. If you know the tunes to ”Greensleeves,” ”Lillibullero,” or just about any traditional British tune, you should thank John Playford (1623-1687). Known today primarily for the Playford Dances—originally published as ”The English Dancing Master” in 1650/1, Playford was the most important …
Posted in: In The Muse
By: Bailey DeSimone
For World AIDS Day (December 1), Bailey brings us a post on the legislation that was enacted to provide research and education for AIDS awareness.
Posted in: In Custodia Legis
By: Liz Tencer
The digital preservation landscape is ever-evolving, and the Library of Congress has recently made a significant update to its Recommended Formats Statement (RFS), to upgrade FFV1 (version 3) in Matroska (.mkv) container from an "Acceptable Format" to one of five "Preferred Formats" for the preservation and long-term access of video materials, reflecting its ongoing commitment to staying at the forefront of audiovisual preservation.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Juliette Appold
New BARD additions with Bill Brown audio titles and digital braille scores. Check out our blog to learn more.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Nora Scheland
This summer, the Copyright Office reached a new milestone in our modernization efforts: one million card catalog records have been digitized with searchable metadata and added to the Office’s Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) pilot. Learn more about CPRS, the Office’s digitization efforts, and historical registration application cards in this blog post.
Posted in: Copyright