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The following is a guest post by Woody Woodis, Cataloger, Prints and Photographs Division Today, in honor of Bastille Day, or La Fête Nationale, marking the beginning of the French Revolution, we feature highlights from the French Political Cartoon Collection. This small but exemplary collection of 365 prints spans almost two centuries and touches on …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Susan Manus
The National Digital Stewardship Residency program just completed the first year of residencies in the Washington, DC area. The second, upcoming round of residencies will take place in New York and Boston, and both cities have recently announced the selection of residents and projects. At this year’s Digital Preservation 2014, there will be a panel …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Butch Lazorchak
Hannah Sommers has done just about every job one can do in a library. Today she serves as NPR’s first Library Program Manager, helping forge a new path for the profession in her role directing product development for the NPR Library. This is her guest post. NPR’s mission is to create a more informed public, …
Posted in: The Signal
The NLS Music Section recently acquired a braille transcription of Benjamin Britten’s Friday Afternoons. The songs in this collection are available both in hard copy and for download from BARD, for anyone who is performing them or otherwise interested in this music. The music is scored for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass choral parts. A …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
School may be out for the summer, but around the Library of Congress there’s always something new to learn. This week I joined teachers attending one of the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute sessions to display examples of primary sources that might be suited to classroom exercises. It set me to reflecting on examples …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Susan Manus
The July issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available! In this issue: Featuring “Digital Preservation and the Arts” including Web Archiving and Preserving the Arts, and Preserving Digital and Software-Based Artworks An Interview with Marla Misunas (and friends) of SFMOMA, part 2 Community Approaches to Digital Stewardship Exhibiting GIFs, with …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Trevor Owens
What does it mean to acquire something, like a set of animated .gifs, that are already widely available on the web? Archives and Museums are often focused on acquiring, preserving and making accessible rare or unique documents, records, objects and artifacts. While someone might take a photo of an object, or reproduce it in any …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Kate Murray
A new thread emerged during the recent monthly conference calls of the Standards and Practices Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). What do we do about preserving video? It’s a problem for many of our members. One participant even commented that video is often the last content type to be added to …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Amanda Smith
Children and youth comprise an important part of the patronage at a public library, and this is certainly true here at the Music Section of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped as well. Young musicians use NLS music materials in a variety of ways as they learn to play instruments. Here …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Nicole Saylor
Folklorist Trevor J. Blank is an assistant professor of communication at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Readers of Folklife Today might enjoy a series of posts on the Library of Congress’s digital preservation blog, The Signal. In a two-part Insights Interview series, folklorist Trevor J. Blank talks about digital culture on the …
Posted in: Folklife Today