Exploring Mars with the Library
By: Naomi Coquillon
Images of Mars and resources about space exploration from the Library's collections.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Blogs Categories: Uncategorized
Blogs Categories: Uncategorized
American Composers and Musicians from A-Z: X-Z (Part 2 - “Those We Missed”)
By: Katie Rodda
This is our last installment of the "American Composers and Blind Musicians from A to Z" series. In this post we take a look at Blind American musicians who we missed on the first round.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
Kermit! On Fame, Fortune and the 2020 National Recording Registry
By: Naomi Coquillon
Kermit the Frog stops in to chat with Librarian Carla Hayden about his induction into the 2020 class of the National Recording Registry with his banjo-strumming ballad, “The Rainbow Connection” from 1979’s “The Muppet Movie.”
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Remembrance: Whitman’s “The Death of Lincoln” and the By the People Whitman Campaign
By: Anne Holmes
Walt Whitman devised his “Death of Lincoln” speech in 1879 to commemorate the April 14-15, 1865, demise of Abraham Lincoln. In this post, Manuscript Division curator Barbara Bair explores Whitman's historic speech, which is at the heart of the newest offering in the Library’s By the People crowdsourcing transcription campaign.
Posted in: From the Catbird Seat
Three Years Out: Cultivating our Digital Content Management Community
By: Trevor Owens
Three years ago, I shared out some news about the newly created Digital Content Management Section. Our unit was just starting up and we had a lot in store for our future that I wanted to talk about on this blog. Coming up on the third anniversary of that post, presents an opportunity to reflect …
Posted in: The Signal
At Home Archive Challenge: Active Duty and Veterans Edition
By: Stephen Winick
Back near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we suggested a new challenge to keep folks busy while waiting out the worst at home. The idea was a variation on our popular "Archive Challenge," in which you base a work of art on an item in our archive. This post suggests ideas for archive challenges that might appeal to active-duty service members and veterans, and sets up a future post about Veterans History Project collections.
Posted in: Folklife Today
Family-Focused Events Roundup: April – May 2021
By: Kaleena Black
This post features a list of family-oriented Library of Congress virtual events coming up in April and May.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Eggsploring the Collections
By: Naomi Coquillon
Egg-related resources to celebrate spring, including classic children's stories and traditional egg-dyeing techniques represented in the Library's collections.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Announcing the 2020 David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality
The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce that Anthony Cerulli, Director of the Center for South Asia and an Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the 2020 David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality. This fellowship, made possible by a generous endowment from …
Posted in: Insights
Flowers for You
By: Juliette Appold
A bouquet of musical flowers for you, available from the NLS Music Collection.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes