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By: Robert Casper
The following cross-post was written by Catalina Gómez and originally appeared on the Library of Congress “Teaching with the Library” blog. Catalina Gomez Describe what you do at the Library of Congress and the materials you work with. I am a reference librarian in the Library’s Hispanic Reading Room, which serves as a research center …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Jeff Bridgers
The mid-season All-Star Game break provides baseball fans an opportunity to assess their team’s progress thus far, taking stock of strengths and areas for improvement, successes and failings. But, I’m going to take a much further distant historical look at baseball spectators and fans enjoying the game. Going back some 150 years to October 1865, the engraved …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Matt Blakley
As a follow-up to the publication of “@ the Crossroads—A Sudden Poem”—written by our Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and originally published as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series on July 10th—Poetry and Literature Center Head Robert Casper conducted an interview over e-mail with the Poet Laureate. — The U.S. Poet Laureate is not required to write …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Matt Blakley
A quick post to enclose the below, which was written by our Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and originally published as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series yesterday, July 10th. @ the Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem Juan Felipe Herrera, 1948 . RIP Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Dallas police officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
By: Kate Murray
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, who organized the FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group in 2007. Fleischhauer recently retired from the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Audio-Visual Working Group is pleased to announce a milestone in the development of the AS-07 MXF video-preservation format specification. AS-07 has taken shape …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Gilbert Busch
In a recent NLS Music Notes blog post, “The Festival That Changed American Music,” I read about rock stars such as Jimi Hendrix who performed at the first Monterey festival in 1967. Because of the recordings listed there, and my own experience of the NLS collections, I assumed that anything we have on Hendrix would be in audio format. So …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Kristi Finefield
The two people in the photo at right seem stopped in their tracks, much like I was when I saw this image for the first time. As I took in the details, I realized the towering metal behemoth was a Ferris wheel. It would take a bit more research to discover that this is actually …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson and John Snelson, both of the Packard Campus. Thursday, July 7 (7:30 p.m.) The Great Garrick (Warner Bros., 1937) In honor of Olivia de Havilland’s 100th birthday….James Whale directed this entertaining fictional comedy based on a real person, the great 18th-century British actor David Garrick. Before …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Barrie Howard. The Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program delivered a train-the-trainer workshop on June 10, providing professional development in digital preservation to library professionals from Kentucky and West Virginia. The workshop was held at Northern Kentucky University and sponsored by the State Assisted Academic Library …
Posted in: The Signal
As summer gets into full swing, I’m recalling how much I enjoyed my public library’s summer reading club challenges when my children were younger (shout-out to all the public libraries that run summer reading clubs for children and adults!). One thing I loved about the challenge was the “randomizer” techniques library staff designed to inspire …
Posted in: Picture This