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An Evening with Don Everly February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021 It is truly the end of an era with the passing of the talented, charming and iconic Don Everly. The influence the Everly Brothers had on so many musicians and genres of music is immeasurable. Don and his brother Phil are …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Naomi Coquillon
Using Library bookplates and other collections for your own collection of books.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Taru Spiegel
(This guest post is by intern Dylan Ogden, European Reading Room) For many Soviet authors, emigration could be something of a mixed blessing: moving to Western Europe or the United States meant freedom from government censors and KGB surveillance, but it also meant exile from the culture, friends and readers that had initially shaped these …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library's Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Lindsay Conway
Explore all the new Johnny Cash braille music scores in our collection and learn about how the NLS Music Section acquired them from Canada's Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA), thanks to the Marrakesh Treaty!
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
Forty-seven years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal. A story worth retelling and exploring, Hollywood of course took it on in 1976’s seminal journalism film, “All the President’s Men.” “Men” was added to the Library’s National Film Registry in 2010. Below, film reviewer Mike Canning looks …
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This is a guest post written by Hilary Szu Yin Shiue and Jacob Kowall, 2021 Junior Fellows in the Digital Content Management & Services (DCMS) Division under the mentorship of Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator. Hilary and Jacob assisted in updating and expanding the Sustainability of Digital Formats website, which provides information and analysis on …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Stephen Winick
We're excited for this week’s Homegrown concert from Hubby Jenkins, who will be playing old-time songs and spirituals that are the root of American folk, country, blues, and gospel. The concert premieres at noon on August 11 on our Facebook page. After that, the concert will be available permanently at his concert page, where you can also read more about Hubby. For now, I’ll just say that he's an old-time and blues musician living in New York. He's a singer and multi-instrumentalist who plays guitars, banjos, mandolins, and bones. He has been a member of the Rhiannon Giddens Band, and before that the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. As a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, he played at the Library of Congress back in 2012. In this post, I’ll try to whet your appetites by talking about a few of the songs Hubby plays in the concert, and presenting related field recordings from our collections.
Posted in: Folklife Today
The following is a post by Senior Innovation Specialist Meghan Ferriter about the Collective Wisdom initiative. Collective Wisdom seeks to identify and enrich networks of practitioners of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, document current practices, and invite others to join in thoughtful consideration of future practices. Supported by an Arts & Humanities Research Council UK US-UK …
Posted in: The Signal