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By: Abbey Potter
If you are in the Washington, DC area next week (or can be), please be our guest at a very special day-long event hosted by The Library of Congress National Digital Initiatives. “Collections as Data: Impact” will be held 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, in the Coolidge Auditorium on the first floor of the …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Alison Hall
The following is a guest post by Alexandra El-Bayeh, registration specialist in the Office of Registration Policy & Practice. The Copyright Office’s new rule requiring applicants to file supplementary registrations online goes into effect today. On June 15, 2017, the Office published the final rule after receiving comments from the public. What is a supplementary …
Posted in: Copyright
By: Kate Zwaard
The following is a repost from the blog of the John W. Kluge Center. The author is Dan Turello who manages the Kluge Center senior chair competitions including the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations. I’m here with Dame Wendy Hall, …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, July 13 (7:30 p.m.) The Lady from Shanghai (Columbia, 1947) Orson Welles wrote, directed and produced this film noir thriller based on a novel by Sherwood King. Welles also stars as Irish seaman Michael O’Hara, who joins a bizarre yachting cruise and …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Stephen Winick
The following is a guest post by Nancy Groce, Senior Folklife Specialist and Director of the Occupational Folklife Project. After seven years of planning, research, fieldwork, and archiving, the American Folklife Center is delighted to announce that the first installment of its Occupational Folklife Project (OFP) launches today on the Library of Congress’s website with …
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Abbey Potter
Updated 10/19/17: The Congressional Data Challenge is now available! Below is the blog post with more information. Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge This is a guest post from John Pull, Communications Officer of the Office of the Chief Information Officer. This morning, on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, Library of Congress Chief Information …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Jaime Mears
When hosting workshops, such as Software Carpentry, or events, such as Collections As Data, our National Digital Initiatives team made a discovery—there is an appetite among librarians for hands-on computational experience. That’s why we created an inclusive hackathon, or a “hack-to-learn,” taking advantage of the skills librarians already have and paring them with programmers to …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Rachel Del Gaudio of the Packard Campus. Wednesday, June 14 (7:30 p.m.) Behind the Door (Paramount, 1919) Described by esteemed film historian Kevin Brownlow as “the most outspoken of all the WWI vengeance films,” this shockingly graphic drama was directed by Irvin Willat and stars Hobart Bosworth as …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Donna Koh
Recently, I read Willie Nelson’s autobiography “It’s a Long Story.” Willie and his sister Bobbie were raised by their paternal grandparents who were avid amateur musicians. From when they were very young, the Nelson children spent much of their time making music together and singing gospel songs at their church. Willie still cherishes those times …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 8 (7:30 p.m.) A Global Affair (MGM, 1964) Bob Hope stars as Frank Larrimore, an official at the United Nations in New York, who finds himself in charge of an infant that was abandoned in the building. Besides being an …
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