Baseball Trivia: Outreach at Nationals Park, 2024 Edition
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
Play ball! Baseball trivia, that is. In this post about the Library's community outreach at Nationals Park, we share some of our favorite trivia questions.
Category: Sports
Paris Olympic Games Then and Now: 1924 & 2024
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
Let’s celebrate the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics a century after the Games were last held there. Check out this brief history of the Games, an overview of 1924 Olympic “firsts” and related stories of American athletes featured in Library collections.
Posted in: Sports
Join Us for July Family Day, Celebrating the Olympic Games
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Sarah Peet of the Informal Learning Office contributed research for this post. On Saturday, July 20th, the Library of Congress’ Informal Learning Office (ILO) hosts its latest monthly, in-person family program. July’s Family Day highlights the Olympics in recognition of the 2024 Summer Games from July 26th to August 11th, and the Paralympic Games from …
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Events, For Kids, For Teens, Sports
Celebrating Summer Fun with the Library of Congress’ Collections
Posted by: Katie McCarthy
Experience summer fun by exploring items from the Library of Congress' collection, and then find your own examples of what summer means to you!
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Researching, Sports, Travel
Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Part 3
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This fun post includes a family-friendly trivia game you can play at home!
Posted in: Sports
Something for Everyone in the Library’s Historic Photo Collections: Tennis
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
One of the most absorbing and interesting things I get to do at the Library is to explore the amazing collections in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room (P&P) both onsite and online. Regardless of the topic I’m researching, there’s bound to be a wealth of relevant images in the P&P online catalog (PPOC) that …
Posted in: Researching, Sports
More Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Part 2
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
The trivia questions in this post were created by Library of Congress Internship (LOCI) program spring 2023 participant Katrina Limson, a MLIS student at San Jose State University. As the dog days of summer goes on, so does the Library of Congress’s partnership with the Washington Nationals—the “team that reads”! On July 31, the Nationals …
Posted in: Sports
Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Community Outreach
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
The trivia questions in this post were created by Library of Congress Internship (LOCI) program past participant Katrina Limson, a MLIS student at San Jose State University. The Washington Nationals are the “team that reads”, but did you know that the city’s Major League Baseball team and the Library of Congress have a partnership that …
Posted in: Sports
Baseball History Part Two: Finding Larry Doby in the Newspaper Collections
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This summer, I was inspired by our programs at National Park to explore my own family connections with baseball. This post is a follow-up to my colleague Lauren’s post, “Baseball History: Reflections & Family History Activities”. My grandfather grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, home of his baseball hero—Larry Doby. After serving in World War …
Posted in: African American History, Sports