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By: Isabel Brador
The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois, who currently lives in Seattle. This is the second blog post in a series following Vivian’s project, Anywhere Adventures. Check out the LC Labs Anywhere Adventures experiment page to learn more about the …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Heather Darnell
The following is a guest post by Reference Librarian and early music specialist, Dr. Stacey Jocoy. The Library of Congress is pleased to announce Henry Purcell: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress, a new research guide dedicated to one of the Baroque era’s most influential composers. Often called the “English Orpheus,” Purcell …
Posted in: In The Muse
By: Isabel Brador
The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the application has received over 174,000 visitors representing tens of thousands of research experiences. Ben’s project was the first in-house machine learning application developed …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Kristi Finefield
We celebrate National Pencil Day on March 30. This post in our occasional series, Profiling Portraits, focuses on portraits where the subject has a pencil in hand, and it is connected to their identity as writer, journalist, and artist.
Posted in: Picture This
By: David Morris
The Library of Congress holds a wealth of primary and secondary sources in multiple types of formats on the study and recognition of Greek independence and Philhellenism. The blog post introduces readers to some of them.
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
By: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. Our talented teams in the Prints & Photographs Division (P&P) organized and described 250,000 pictures during the past year. The processing teams completed several new collections for you to enjoy from a distance or examine in person, and digitization staff added some …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
Our Saturday screenings are cancelled due to the possibility of bad weather.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Lindsay Conway
What do Ray Charles, Edvard Grieg, and recorder music all have in common? They're all among the new braille music and audio that we've added to BARD! Read this month's post to discover what's new on BARD for instant download and enjoyment!
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Sophia Zahner
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Mattern as Kluge Chair in Modern Culture. Mattern began her time at the Kluge Center in January. Shannon Mattern is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of …
Posted in: Insights
By: Isabel Brador
The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois who currently lives in Seattle. As someone who has lived in both rural Illinois and bustling Seattle, I was shocked that I could find really cool items about both locations on the …
Posted in: The Signal