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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post by Barbara Tenenbaum, a specialist in Mexican Culture and Curator of the Jay I Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. On Wednesday, June 29 from 6-8 pm, the Hispanic Division and the Embassy of Peru are presenting a conference on “Machu Picchu: a Centennial Celebration” in the …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Blog post about one of the quotes from the murals in the Science and Business Reading Room in the John Adams Building and features a detail from one mural.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week, Presidents
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I thought I would take an opportunity to post briefly on BEOnline (Business and Economics Online). The BEOnline project began in 1996 and has developed into a useful collection of Internet links organized by subject area. Donna Scanlon who blogged for Business before I did, featured the job search and career assistance area in a …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
I can remember when I headed down to my local library and looked through the card catalog to find information. I even remember classes in high school on how to use the card catalog. Nowadays, many library users have never heard of a card catalog and if they see one, they might think it’s an interesting old …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s photo features a map of the telephone lines found in the October 1894 issue of the National Telephone Directory from American Telephone and Telegraph Company. As noted on the title page, this publication “is intended to be a List of Stations Connected by Metallic-Circuit Lines” within the “LONG DISTANCE” System and includes businesses and …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
If you have ever visited Washington, D.C., one of the first things you may have noticed is the amount of marble used in the buildings (exterior and interior), monuments, and statues throughout the city. For instance you can find Colorado Yule at the Lincoln Memorial; Cockeysville, Sheffield and Texas marble at the Washington Monument; and …
Posted in: John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We recently hosted students from the Tai Sophia Institute, to whom we exhibited copies of the Library’s 19th– century books on holistic and eclectic medicine, also called Thomsonian medicine. My colleague found some unusal art work within a copy of Samuel Thomson’s A Narrative of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, which may amuse our readers. Apparently, a …
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This year we are commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Library recently debuted the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, and after spending time looking at those photographs, I thought it would be interesting to write a blog post featuring business-related resources that illuminate the lives of the people living in the …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
There are many events scheduled in Washington DC for Memorial Day. The one I most look forward to is the annual Rolling Thunder’s Ride for Freedom. It is truly moving to witness the tens of thousands of motorcycles that travel from the Pentagon, cross the Memorial Bridge, and end at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. There …