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By: Holland Gormley
The following is a guest post by Librarian-in-Residence Marilyn Creswell. Over the years, the U.S. Copyright Office has explored the many ways women have influenced creativity, copyright, and the Office itself. Women authors and the women within our own institution are key participants in the country’s copyright system. As part of our celebration of …
Posted in: Copyright
The following is a guest post by Hanna Soltys, Reference Librarian, Prints & Photographs Division. As we celebrate women’s history this month, we’re heading to the track, the open waters, the rink, the mat, the field, the mountains, and many more areas to highlight women in sports. While there isn’t one set collection to explore …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
Sadly, yesterday, the great Bunny Wailer passed away at the age of 73. Wailer of The Wailers, had his 1973 album “Burnin'” added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2006. In tribute, we post here, an original essay written for the LC by Roger Steffins about this masterwork. “Burnin’”: The Wailers’ Final …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
Rishad Choudhury is a Kluge Fellow as well as Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is currently working on a book-length project, ‘‘Hajj between Empires: Indo-Muslim Pilgrimage and Political Culture, 1739–1820.’’ Mike Stratmoen: Could you describe your project for us? Rishad Choudhury: My book on the hajj pilgrimage is set in an age …
Posted in: Insights
By: Cary O’Dell
Regular readers of this blog and the Library of Congress main blog know about our long quest to identify some aggressively obscure film and TV and other images that we found in a collection of show-biz photographs that the NAVCC acquired about seven years ago. For a recap, see this link. We started with 800 …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Stephen Winick
In this blog, Stephen Winick looks into the mysterious background of two French-language folksongs in AFC's Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection, "Fox Henry" or "Faux Henry," sung by Ida Burgoin Roy, and "Chambre et chaînes" sung by Connie Morin Desrosier. He identifies other versions of each song and provides audio, transcriptions, translations, and pictures of the singers.
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Alison Hall
The Gee's Bend quilters have a rich creative history. Through educational outreach from various organizations, the women of Gee's Bend have learned about copyright and their intellectual property rights.
Posted in: Copyright
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for February 2021.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Melissa Lindberg
In a recent search for a portrait of a different judge in the C. M. Bell Studio collection, reference librarian Jon Eaker came upon an image with the title “Gibbs, Judge M.W.” Struck by the man’s image, and wanting to learn more about him, Jon did some reading and learned that Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
This piece by B.G. Rhule is one in a collection of essays on National Recording Registry titles. The complete list can be found here. So much has been written over these many decades about “A Change is Gonna Come,” Sam Cooke’s mellifluous and soulful ode to the struggles, yet prevailing hopes, of a black citizen …
Posted in: Now See Hear!