The Packard Campus Theater will be closed the weekend of July 1, 2016.
By: Cary O’Dell
Posted in: Now See Hear!
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Library of Congress Advisory Team Kicks off New Digitization Effort at Eckerd College
By: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Eckerd College faculty David Gliem, associate professor of Art History, and Nancy Schuler, librarian and assistant professor of Electronic Resources, Collection Development and Instructional Services. On June 3rd, a meeting at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, brought key experts and College departments together to begin plans for the …
Posted in: The Signal
The Festival That Changed American Music
By: Katie Rodda
Nearly 50 years ago today marked the beginning of the Monterey International Pop Festival, one of the first rock festivals in the United States. Nowadays, rock festivals are a common occurrence, happening in various locations year-round. Back in 1967, though, the rock festival was not common. Monterey helped change all that, as the rock festival …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
Capital Pride LGBT Poetry Event Webcast
By: Matt Blakley
Hello again! A happy note to let you know that we were able to get the webcast for our 2014 LGBT literary program up, which I referenced earlier this month as part of From the Catbird’s Seat’s “Literary Treasures” series. You can view it by either finding it below or visiting the Library’s webcast webpage. …
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (June 16-18, 2016)
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Rachel Parker, of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 16 (7:30 p.m.) Silent Movie Double Feature Whispering Shadows (Peerless Feature, 1921) After attending a séance, a young couple deals with the question of whether the dead have the power to warn their loved ones of impending danger. This unusual …
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Golden Days of Yesteryear
My attention recently was called to a very historic event; on June 2, 1896, Guglielmo Marconi applied to patent the radio. When we think of Marconi as the inventor of the radio, it is easily overshadowed by contemporary inventors of computers, 3-D printing, and copy machines. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to have …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
The Workflow of the American Folklife Center Digital Collections
By: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center just celebrated 40 years since it was founded by Congressional mandate. But its origins far predate 1976; its earlier incarnation was the Archive of Folk Song,which was founded in 1928 and was …
Posted in: The Signal
The Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing
By: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post from Julia Kim, archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The annual meeting of the Radcliffe Technology Workshop (April 4th – April 5th, #radtech16) brought together historians, (digital) humanists and archivists for an intensive discussion of the “digital turn” and its effect on our work. The …
Posted in: The Signal
UNESCO PERSIST: A Global Exchange on Digital Preservation
By: Mike Ashenfelder
This is a guest post by Robert R. Buckley, Technical Adviser at the National Archives of the UAE in Abu Dhabi and the Coordinator for the PERSIST Policy Working Group. Readers of this blog would have first seen mention of the UNESCO PERSIST project in The Signal last January. It occurred in a guest post …
Posted in: The Signal
Paris in the Springtime
By: Katie Rodda
Spring has sprung around these parts in Washington, DC, but for this blog post I am going to continue with our international theme and wax poetic about springtime in France. I’m bringing up this geographic location because two well-known French composers, Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet, share a birthday today, May 12! Although neither Fauré …
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