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Shave and a Haircut: The Blog

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The barber pole is an internationally recognized symbol of the barbering trade. In my latest Flickr album, Shave and a Haircut, you will see a small selection of images of barber poles from the Prints and Photographs Division. The collections hold many more photos than I could use in the album. This is the kind …

Posted in: Picture This

A Tale of Black Resistance through Collage Artwork

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This year’s theme of Black Resistance is a reminder that while Black history holds captivating stories of innovation, triumph, pride, and joy, we must also acknowledge the many ways that African Americans have had to resist historic and ongoing oppression. As part of this year’s celebration, Office staff sat down with Dakarai Akil, a dynamic, Los Angeles-based collage artist, for a conversation about collage art, creative process, identity, and Black resistance. Akil has engaged with the copyright system, and over the span of his career, he self-published three art books and had his work published in The New York Times, Wired Magazine, and Readers Digest. Akil’s website describes his creations as “small windows into the worlds of Black surrealism & afrofuturism,” and he describes his own work as challenging expectations.

Posted in: Copyright

New Blog Look, Same Great Stories

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The Library's blogs have been redesigned, with everything from new headlines to new layouts to new ways that photographs are featured. It's been in the works for more than a year, and is meant to keep up with the blogs' popularity. Readership was up 18 percent last year, to some 5.5 million readers.

Posted in: Timeless

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Library of Congress Digitization Strategy: 2023-2027

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The following post was co-authored with Steve Morris, Chief of Digital Collections Management and Services and Tom Rieger, Manager of Digitization Services.  The Library of Congress has a new Digitization Strategy for its collections. As we did for the Library’s Digital Collections Strategy, we are excited to share this overview of it with readers of The …

Posted in: The Signal

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Ready for Research: From Latin America and Baseball Cards to Moral Re-Armament and Historical Trademark Designs

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The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, and Aliza Leventhal, Head, Technical Services, both of the Prints & Photographs Division. Every week our department organizes, houses, describes, and selectively digitizes a wide variety of pictures. Here are the highlights from the more than 125,000 items completed in the past six months. You …

Posted in: Picture This

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Working at Scale: The Firehose of Data

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The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world with over 173 million cataloged items. For the past decade, digitization of this enormous collection has increased exponentially. The Preservation Services Division (PSD) is responsible for a huge portion of this effort, managing contracts for the digitization of millions of pages of books, newspapers, and microfilm frames each year. All of this imaging results in a lot of data, hundreds of millions of files, and this is how we manage that data.

Posted in: Guardians of Memory

This Weekend at the Packard Campus (Feb. 10 -11, 2023)

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Did someone say “love”?  We got it for you on the big screen.  Bring your sweetheart to the movies. Friday, February 10, 2023 @ 7:30pm Love & Basketball (New Line, 2000) Quincy and Monica love each other but they also love basketball.  Which is the greater love?  We shall see.  Written and directed by Gina …

Posted in: Now See Hear!