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By: Cary O’Dell
Here are some of the titles from the Library’s motion picture collections–many preserved by the NAVCC film laboratory–that we’re loaning for exhibition this month. As always, we can’t guarantee that schedules won’t change or links get broken, but this is our best information at the time of publication. Filmotecta De Catalunya THE PATSY (1928) Nov. 7 https://www.filmoteca.cat/web/ca …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Abbey Potter
A lab is where experimental and research-focused tools, methods, and services are incubated. The starting premise for a lab is often wanting to spur change and make space for new practice and new people. Yet calling something a lab can also signal separation between traditional services and new approaches. Labs, and innovation in general, can …
Posted in: The Signal
It's hard for the raven to shake the association to doom and gloom found in literature, religion, art, vocabulary (e.g. raving mad), and legends- and it doesn't help their case that a group of them is called an 'unkindness' of ravens. There is so much more to the raven than omens of bad luck.
Posted in: Inside Adams
The Digital Content Management section has been working on a project to extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant Web Archives holdings. This is another step to explore the Web Archives and make them more widely accessible and usable. Our aim in creating these sets is to identify reusable, “real world” …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Joshua Kueh
The “Doctrina Christiana,” dated to 1593, is one of the first books produced in the European tradition in the Philippines. The only known extant copy may be found in the Rare Book & Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
Diabolical and prolific serial killers existed early in America at a time when police were still devising investigative methods to link related murders. Newspapers reported the gory details of their crimes to a terrified, yet fascinated public.
Posted in: Headlines & Heroes
By: Karyn A. Temple
Let’s talk about fees. Not everyone’s favorite topic, I’ll admit, but it’s something the Copyright Office could not operate without. Yesterday, the Copyright Office delivered our Fee Schedule and Analysis to Congress. Every three to five years, the Office engages in an in-depth study of our fees to determine whether to adjust them. To be …
Posted in: Copyright
Recognizing British composer Herbert Howells contribution to music.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Karen Fishman
Every month, films from the Library’s collection are shown at the Mary Pickford Theater in the James Madison Building, ranging from titles newly preserved by the National Audio Visual Conservation Center film lab, classics from the National Film Registry, and lesser known titles worthy of discovery. Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 p.m. TRICK OR …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Jesse Johnston
Over the past two years, my colleagues and I in the Digital Content Management section have been working with experts from across many divisions of the Library of Congress to collate and assemble guidance and policy that guide or reflect the practices that the Library uses to manage digital collections. I am excited to share …
Posted in: The Signal