Nothing General About It: Ten Weeks in GCCS
By: Lily Tyndall
Read all about GCCS intern Mary Lawrence's summer at the Library of Congress, and the preservation treatments and practices she experienced.
Posted in: Guardians of Memory
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Blogs Categories: Uncategorized
Digitizing Over 9 Million Historical Record Pages and Counting
By: Steve Andreadis
The U.S. Copyright Office has now released over 9 million digitized pages documenting copyright registrations for books, periodicals, and unpublished musical works found in the Copyright Historical Record Books Collection
Posted in: Copyright
Mangyan Scripts, Literary Heritage, and Collections: a Virtual Panel Discussion on September 20th
By: Joshua Kueh
This blog post announces a panel discussion on Mangyan writing from the Philippines, scheduled to take place via Zoom on September 20, 2023. Presenters will speak about Mangyan scripts and holdings at the Mangyan Heritage Center, Newberry Library, Yale Peabody Museum, and the Library of Congress. The post also highlights some Mangyan-related resources at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
Orchestrating Communities of Practice
By: Suzanne Schadl
This is a question-and-answer post with Alyson Williams who started at the Library of Congress six months ago in a brand-new position as head of Communities of Practice and Publications in a relatively new division, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE), which brought together the former European and Hispanic divisions Wait, Alyson what …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
National Book Festival 2023: Now on Demand
By: Sasha Dowdy
This year’s National Book Festival welcomed tens of thousands of attendees, and we hope you all had a great time. The Festival may happen on one day, but the celebration of books keeps going. All author talk videos are now online! If you missed any of the programs, we’ve got you: they are now available …
Posted in: Bookmarked
Finding and Sharing Eastern European Voices
By: Suzanne Schadl
This is a question-and-answer guest post by Irene Madrigal — a Brooklyn native in her senior year at Barnard College in New York City where she studies English, History, and Spanish. Irene was selected for an internship in the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) through The Washington Center (TWC). When she’s not watching …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
In Search of a Shrimp: Origami Collections & Activity
By: Joshua Kueh
Create an origami shrimp from the Library’s collections. This blog shares about collections in the Library’s Asian Division and provides instructions for a paper-folding activity.
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
Check out: The Secret Life of GeoTIFFs
n October 2022, the outcomes of a 2015 experiment to geo-reference 4,998 digitized maps of the Austro-Hungarian empire were shared with the public at the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Data Jam. Check out this recent post on World's Revealed, the Library's Geography and Maps blog, to learn more about the resulting GeoTIFF files enable access to digitized historical maps.
Posted in: The Signal
Developing Connections, not just Collections, at the Library of Congress
By: Suzanne Schadl
This is a guest post by Alyson Williams, Head of Communities of Practice and Publication in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division. Shortly after her arrival at the Library in late February, Alyson who was serving as Co-Chair of local arrangements for the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) Conference …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
Ready for Research: A Wide Range of New Pictures
By: Kristi Finefield
Read about collections that are newly available and ready for research from the Prints & Photographs Division, including color slides by American architect Paul M. Rudolph, color images of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah by photographer Carol M. Highsmith and letterpress posters by printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Posted in: Picture This