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Posted by: Katie McCarthy
Discover hand-selected wintery images in the Library's collection and then find your own examples of what winter means to you!
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations, Researching, Sports
Posted by: Katie McCarthy
Explore the Library of Congress collections to learn more about early football games and the way the sport has changed.
Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Researching, Sports
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.
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
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
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
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This fun post includes a family-friendly trivia game you can play at home!
Posted in: Sports
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
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