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Archive: December 2015 (2 Posts)

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Descriptions of 10,000+ Brazilian Chapbooks at AFC now Online

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

This is a guest blog post by Margaret Kruesi, a folklorist and cataloger at the American Folklife Center. You have a new opportunity to discover 10,000 plus titles in the American Folklife Center’s Literatura de cordel Brazilian chapbook collection (AFC 1970/002)! The Library of Congress holds one of the world’s largest collections of literatura de …

Posted in: Acquisitions, Archival Practice, Folksong, Poetry

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Acquiring at digital scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me collection

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

Thanks to The Great Thanksgiving Listen, the StoryCorps collection of interviews has doubled! Since the launch of StoryCorps.me mobile app in March, more than 68,000 interviews have been uploaded as of today—the vast majority of them in the few days following Thanksgiving. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is the archival home …

Posted in: Acquisitions, Archival Practice, StoryCorps