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Posted by: Mike Queen
Blog post promoting new Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room website.
Posted in: Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Malea Walker
This is a guest blog post by Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head, Digital Content Management Section. It was originally posted to The Signal on October 29, 2020. You may have noticed that it is presidential election season in the United States, which means it’s also time for web archivists to gather once again to archive United …
Posted in: Government Documents, Web Archives
Posted by: Megan Halsband
It’s hard to believe that our blog, Headlines and Heroes, is turning two! Since May 4th, 2018 we’ve had a chance to share some of our favorite comic finds, highlights, and the just plain cool with you, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about them. Although the …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This piece was co-written by my colleague Megan Halsband. To celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding, on Friday, April 24, 2020, the Library of Congress is highlighting some of the many gifts and resources we have been able to provide because of your contributions. Your creativity and knowledge help us build our Web Archiving collections …
Posted in: African American History, Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents, Holidays, Newspapers, Web Archives, World War I
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Good news everyone – the first webcomics dataset is available here!!! Wait, what? As a part of the Library’s work to explore our web archives, my colleagues at LC Labs and the Web Archiving Team have made a dataset generated from content harvested from the Library of Congress’s web archive of qwantz.com (Dinosaur Comics!). So …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Megan Halsband
From the original copyright deposit drawing of the Yellow Kid to web comics, 120 years of comic art from the Library of Congress’ collections are now on exhibit in the Graphic Arts Galleries in the Thomas Jefferson Building!
Posted in: Comic Books, Let's Talk Comics, Newspaper Comic Strips, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Amber Paranick
A digital collection called The General News on the Internet, a free archive of online-only news sites collected from the web, is now available. The Library of Congress began preserving these sites in June 2014. How are these news-based sites captured? The Library uses a hybrid approach of weekly captures of the websites, augmented with …
Posted in: Newspapers, Web Archives
Posted by: Megan Halsband
The Cherokee Nation became the first Native American tribe with a tribal newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix. The Serial & Government Publications Division holds a number of original issues of the Cherokee Phoenix, first published on February 21, 1828. The newspaper was printed “partly with English, and partly with Cherokee print; and all matter which is common …
Posted in: Comic Books, Native American History, Newspapers, Web Archives
Posted by: Megan Halsband
For me, the end of the summer has become a time of year when I get to work extensively with our independent comic materials in the Small Press Expo Collection. Every year since 2011, staff from the Library of Congress have attended the Small Press Expo, a festival dedicated to celebrating all things indie comics, …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics