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The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce the newest cohort of Kluge Fellows at the Library of Congress. Each year, we consider dozens of applications from scholars in the social sciences and humanities for the Kluge Fellowship and select twelve that are best suited to the Library’s collections and the Kluge Center’s mission. …
Posted in: Insights
By: Cary O’Dell
Every month, the Library of Congress loans some of its films to theaters and festivals around the globe. See if anything is headed your way!
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Timothy Jones
This month, the NLS Music Section added many titles to BARD in braille and audio. Read to find out more!
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
Come see an impressive duo of classic films this week at the Packard Campus Theater.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Cary O’Dell
A musical and a "silent" are coming to the big screen this coming Thursday and Friday at the Packard Campus.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Cary O’Dell
See what we have planned for the big screen this coming Thursday and Friday at the Packard Campus.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Stephen Winick
The Creek Rocks, the first recipients of the American Folklife Center’s Artists in Resonance fellowship, will return to the Library of Congress on August 21 to perform in the Coolidge Auditorium. They’ll be playing their own arrangements of songs they gleaned from AFC’s deep Ozark Mountain collections as part of their fellowship research. In this post, we’ll introduce you to the band and link you to some fun resources, including music, interviews, and an Ozark mountain podcast. And, of course, we’ll provide the concert details!
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Stephen Winick
The American Folklife Center is delighted to announce that 40 more Archive Challenge videos have gone online. In the Archive Challenge, the American Folklife Center helps accomplished musicians and groups select a song from the archive, put their own spin on it, and play it in a special showcase. This set of one-song videos thus features a diverse array of musicians interpreting materials from the American Folklife Center archive. The newly published set includes videos from the Folk Alliance International conferences in 2024 and 2025, along with a wayward set of 2020 videos that were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They include folk and blues performers from near and far—including the U.S., Canada, Scotland, France, Nigeria, Haiti, New Zealand, and Australia. Find a sampler of embedded videos, along with the field recordings that inspired them, in this blog post, along with links to each year's videos.
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Kristi Finefield
A piece of Hardanger embroidery in a recent Flickr album on needlework inspires a deeper dive into the collections for more images of this regional style of embroidery, specific to the Hardanger area of western Norway.
Posted in: Picture This
By: Mark Manivong
The Jargon Society released its first publication numbered Jargon 1 in 1951, “Garbage Litters the Iron Face of the Sun’s Child,” a folded pamphlet with poetry by Jonathan Williams and an etching by David Ruff. Founded that same year by Williams and Ruff, the Jargon Society would go on to publish 115 titles, mostly by up-and-coming writers and photographers.
Posted in: Bibliomania