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By: Kristi Finefield
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. You can find libraries at the heart of many different communities, from the center of a town or a college campus to a shared toolbox at a construction site. The new book American Libraries, written by architectural historian Kenneth Breisch, takes …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 26 (7:30 p.m.) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Warner Bros., 1962) Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson, a demented and aging former movie star, who holds her paraplegic sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) captive in a decaying Hollywood mansion. Directed …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Kate Zwaard
Today we launch a Congressional Data Challenge, a competition asking participants to leverage legislative data sets on congress.gov and other platforms to develop digital projects that analyze, interpret or share congressional data in user-friendly ways. “There is so much information now available online about our legislative process, and that is a great thing,” said Librarian …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Lara Szypszak
We have previously shared some of the fantastic Japanese woodblock prints that grace our collections. They are both elegant and delicate, as well as inspirational. We don’t need to go far to see how Japanese printmaking inspired the work of one particular American artist who studied the technique and developed a unique style of her …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Meghan Ferriter
The following is a guest post by Kate Murray, organizer of the FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group and Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) is pleased to announce the publication of a new version of the MXF AS-07 Application Specification (with CC BY-SA 4.0 license) and its …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Cary O’Dell
It is #21 in the Library of Congress’s movie mystery still blog. As we did last month, this time we are reposting a few stills that are still in search of a solution. As always, “clicking” on any of the images below will increase them in size so that they are easier to see. Please …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 5 (7:30 p.m.) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Universal, 1982 – Rated PG) Director Carl Reiner and Steve Martin collaborated on this film noir parody with Martin playing Private Detective Rigby Reardon, who is trying to solve the murder of a …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Stephen Winick
Earlier today, the great gospel quartet The Fairfield Four graced the stage of the Coolidge Auditorium, and I was fortunate enough to take photos of them. I thought I’d share a few of them here as “pics of the week.” A Cappella singing groups are often hard to photograph, because they stand in a straight …
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Meghan Ferriter
As a part of Library of Congress Labs release last week, the National Digital Initiatives team launched Beyond Words. This pilot crowdsourcing application was created in collaboration with the Serial and Government Publications Division and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) at the Library of Congress. In our first week and a half, …
Posted in: The Signal
One of the fun and interesting parts of working at the NLS Music Section is being able to upload files to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download). Our patrons are always checking to see what is new in the “Recently Added” link, and we frequently remind them that not all the NLS Music Section collection is …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes