Puppet Power, Part Two: Books About Puppets and Puppet-Making at the Library
By: Naomi Coquillon
Highlights on puppets and puppetry from the rare book materials in the Children's Literature Center at the Library.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
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Six Copyright Concepts Your K-12 Students Should Know
Whether you're teaching young students just starting out or preparing older students for life beyond high school, incorporating copyright concepts into your lesson plans can help engage a student's creativity and foster an appreciation for the importance of protecting creative works. To get you started, here are six concepts that will help students better understand copyright.
Posted in: Copyright
The Computing Cultural Heritage Collections Project is Looking for Researchers!
Do you work with digital collections as data in your research? Apply for a contract to work with Library of Congress data in the cloud as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage Collections project. Researchers will help the Library build a rich understanding of the uses for large scale computational access to library collections, including …
Posted in: The Signal
Saluting Veterans of the Armed Forces Pictorially
We asked reference librarian Jon Eaker, who has spent many years exploring our holdings of military images, to select a couple of favorites to feature in honor of Veterans Day. It’s a tall order to pick out just two, given the thousands of images we hold of members of the armed forces depicted in peacetime …
Posted in: Picture This
Copyright Office Registration Processing Times Change for the Second Half of Fiscal 2020
The following is a guest post by Robert J. Kasunic, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Registration Policy and Practice. This week, the Copyright Office released its registration processing times for the second half of fiscal 2020 (April–September 2020). We issue processing statistics twice during the fiscal year, so this latest update reflects registration …
Posted in: Copyright
Happy Birthday! Things Turning 100 in 2020
One hundred years ago, the world was a very different place. But many things from 1920 changed the course of history and, in a lot of ways, helped to shape the world we live in today.
Posted in: Headlines & Heroes
Generating STEAM with Copyright
By: Steve Andreadis
A summary of some of the protections and guidance copyright law provides to those participating in STEAM-related activities.
Posted in: Copyright
LC for Robots in Action: using the API to access the Federal Theatre Project collection
The following is a guest post by Derek Miller, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Brown, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. In it, they discuss how Brown helped Miller access LC for Robots resources that helped him gain enhanced access to Library of Congress digital collections used in his research.
Posted in: The Signal
New BARD Additions: October 2020
By: Brian McCurdy
The NLS Music Section is proud to announce our newest additions to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) for the month of October!
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
LC Labs Letter: October 2020
October's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: The Signal