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A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!
Posted in: The Signal
By: Holland Gormley
The following is a guest post by Marilyn Creswell, 2020 Librarian-in-Residence for the U.S. Copyright Office. Sojourner Truth was a preacher, abolitionist, and suffragist. A lesser known fact is that she was also a copyright innovator. Truth was born in New York around 1797. Enslaved during her youth and early adulthood, she eventually gained freedom …
Posted in: Copyright
By: Brian McCurdy
In this week's NLS Music Notes blog, learn about the incredible artistry of Jimi Hendrix--who challenged most preconceived notions of popular music in the 20th century to create a new space for music appreciation.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
This guest post by Katherine Blood, Curator of Fine Prints, Prints & Photographs Division, highlights posters that complement the New York Poster House exhibition “The Letterpress Posters of Amos Kennedy” (October 8, 2020–January 3, 2021), curated by Angelina Lippert. Detroit-based letterpress artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. wields wood type and ink in ways that can …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Naomi Coquillon
An introduction to the traditions of Shadow Theater in China and Southeast Asia, with instructions for creating your own shadow puppets and theater.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Juliette Appold
Check out new BARD additions with lectures on Music and the Brain, braille scores by the Beatles and by Beethoven, and much more! Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
November's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: The Signal
By: Naomi Coquillon
A short history of cranberries through the collections of the Library, in honor of Thanksgiving.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Stephen Winick
Happy Thanksgiving! In this post, we’ll take a look at a set of interesting photos from the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division. They depict a custom most people nowadays don’t know much about: Thanksgiving masking. Thanksgiving maskers, like trick-or-treaters on contemporary Halloween, used to go door to door, begging for handouts. They also …
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Naomi Coquillon
Resources and past performances related to Native American heritage, including a new project by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Living Nations, Living Words.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope