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By: Meghan Ferriter
This is a guest post by Charlotte Kostelic, National Digital Stewardship Resident with the Library of Congress and Royal Collection Trust for the Georgian Papers Programme. Her project focuses on exploring ways to optimize access and use among related digital collections held at separate institutions. This work has included a comparative analysis of international metadata …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Melissa Lindberg
The following is an interview with Woody Woodis, Senior Cataloger in the Prints and Photographs Division, about discovering and cataloging a woven “print” memorializing Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the programmable Jacquard loom. Melissa: What can you tell us about this woven “print” depicting inventor-weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard? Woody: During his lifetime Jacquard developed a loom attachment …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Meghan Ferriter
In November, the LC Labs team welcomed Laura Wrubel as she kicked off her research leave in residence with the Library of Congress. Over the next 3 months, she’ll explore digital scholarship with our team and how it might be best supported. We checked in with her to learn more about her goals, background, and …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Cary O’Dell
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Dan Turello
I’m talking with three friends who think about, and work with, food, farming, and culture. Catherine Newell is a Larson Fellow who is studying how consumers use scientific concepts about food and diet to build a spiritual practice. Danille Christensen was a Kluge Fellow in 2016. As a folklorist, she investigates the social meanings of food practices and is writing about home …
Posted in: Insights
By: Cary O’Dell
For this posting, #22 in our series, we revisit a few previously posted but still unknown photos. We still hope that someone, somewhere, will be able to tell us who (or what) they are. As always, “clicking” on the image will increase it in size. As excellent suggestions, clues or answers are submitted, we will …
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By: Juliette Appold
Are you a braille music reader or know someone who is? Wouldn’t you like to find more braille music scores online, in one place? We have some great news for you: The Music Section at the Library of Congress’ National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) is developing a Digital Braille Music …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 9 (7:30 p.m.) The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (20th Century-Fox, 1951) Based on the book by Desmond Young, this biographical film about German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel focuses on the period between his retreat from North Africa and …
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By: George Thuronyi
The following is a guest post by Aurelia J. Schultz, counsel for policy and international affairs. At its annual meeting in Geneva in October, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) discussed the future work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore—called the IGC for short. The IGC’s …
Posted in: Copyright
By: Melissa Lindberg
The calavera, or skull, is one of the most recognizable symbols of the Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a Mexican celebration of the dead that has both Indigenous and Spanish Catholic roots. The Prints and Photographs Division holds a treasure-trove of prints by eminent Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Posada helped …
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