Serpents & Torches
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The bog post is about a floor detail in the vestibule of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Archive: 2013 (46 Posts)
The Great Sheet Cake Mystery
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This week I am celebrating a birthday, and although I am more of a pie or tart kinda gal, a birthday calls for cake- and that cake must be the one that- in my opinion- rules over them all. Drum roll please, the thin, chewy, chocolate and nutty Texas Sheet Cake. I wish to thank …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food
How to Fly a Satellite at 17,000 MPH; The Historic Flight of Landsat 5
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
In 1984, the U.S. launched an Earth remote sensing mission to extend the observational record of our planet’s land masses begun 12-years earlier by the first Earth Resource Technology Satellite, later renamed Landsat 1. By the time Landsat 5 was launched, on March 1, 1984, expectations were for a 3-year design life and the hope …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Arthur T. Emery and His BIG Book of Charts & Graphs
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Sometimes a book’s title and catalog record just don’t do it justice. A case in point is an item I found in the stacks recently and was attracted to purely because of it size – it is just over 5 inches thick. The rather prosaic title of this book is Emery’s Charts and Maps Showing …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Live Tweeting of April 16th Mars Curiosity Rover Lecture. Can’t attend? Tweet your questions!
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
I do not need to convince you that the interest in the Mars Curiosity Rover is sky-high! On Tuesday April 16, 2013 we are hosting a lecture at the Library with NASA’s Dr. Pamela Conrad who will discuss habitability on Mars based on findings from the Curiosity Rover. For those of you who cannot attend, …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
A Lesson from a Founding Father
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The Earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. When researchers walk into the Science and Business Reading Room, not only are they inspired …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week, Presidents
Special Collections in Business, Economic, and Labor History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I have worked at the Library of Congress for just over 10 years and am still amazed by what I find. When I first started, the various directories, credit reference books, telephone books, and salary surveys thrilled me. Sometimes I felt that there was a book or journal on every topic. That feeling really hasn’t …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Location! Location! Location! on Mars with the Curiosity Rover
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
ST&B & NASA Goddard Speakers Series begins its 7th Year on April 16, 2013 with Extraterrestrial Real Estate Assessment: Measuring Habitability on Mars with the Curiosity Rover with Dr. Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist and mineralogist, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [Update– For those of you who cannot attend, our Twitter account @librarycongress will live tweet Dr. …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Getting to Know Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
March 19 will mark the 5 year anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. I would not be writing this blog post if it were not for the curiosity of one of our volunteers, Richard Halada, a local high school physics teacher. Richard was retrieving a book for us in the Adams’ Building …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History