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Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner at AVP. FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative) is pleased to announce a new release of its free open source application embARC with support for FFV1 encoding. embARC, short for …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Juliette Appold
This week, the NLS Music Section celebrates 60 years of service to our patrons. Read about our history and enjoy some of the celebration music to check out.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Suzanne Schadl
(This is a guest post by Cuban-American author and anthropologist Ruth Behar. “Lucky Broken Girl,” the winner of the Pura Belpre Award, was her first book for young readers. She stopped by the Hispanic Reading Room to perform Otra Piel before the National Book Festival. In this post, she shares its creation story). [loc-video-player id=”E921E3924D371331E053CAE7938C1A01″] …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
LC Labs Letter September issue.
Posted in: The Signal
Interview with Laurie Allen, recently announced Chief of LC Labs.
Posted in: The Signal
The Library has introduced the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Steve Andreadis
The U.S. Copyright Office's Find Yourself in Copyright exhibit includes historical artifacts that provide a lens on U.S. history.
Posted in: Copyright
By: Robert Casper
There are still tickets left for our two upcoming events at the Library, with acclaimed author Ian McEwan (Sept. 22nd) and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (Sept. 29th).
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
On a peaceful Sunday in 1859 in the nation's capital, Congressman Daniel E. Sickles shot and killed U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key in broad daylight on Lafayette Square. The murder and subsequent trial captivated antebellum America and sparked nationwide debates about male honor, female virtue, insanity, and the rule of law.
Posted in: Headlines & Heroes
By: Stephen Winick
We're continuing the Homegrown Plus Premiere series with Vigüela, a a traditional folk quintet with a commitment to the rural musical traditions of central Spain. As is usual for the series, this blog post includes an embedded concert video, an interview video, and a set of related links to explore! Vigüela was established in the mid-1980s, after the Franco regime, by young people who looked to folk culture for a way to channel their creative desires while staying rooted in their local communities. Grounded in this history, the band members value their tradition and perform it with accuracy and energy, as a living music, full of joy. They play traditional Spanish music, including jotas, seguidillas, fandangos, and sones, using the centuries-old singing styles, dialects, and instruments of their region. That region is Castilla-La Mancha, the southern part of the Iberian plateau, sometimes called “the heart of Spain,” or “Don Quixote country.”
Posted in: Folklife Today