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Archive: January 2018 (3 Posts)

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New Orleans Then and Now: Canal Street and Henry Clay’s Monument

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

While looking for images to use for various things we are doing for the New Orleans 2018 Tricentennial celebration, I ran across these wonderful images. The focus of both is a monument to Henry Clay, but beyond the statue itself, the details in both photos are great and contain a number of interesting things, such …

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Business ‘Collections as Data’?

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

In July 2017, I attended the second Collections as Data event hosted by National Digital Initiatives/LC Labs at the Library of Congress. The event featured speakers who are using digital collections and data to work in their communities. Kate Zwaard gave an opening talk that deftly describes “computation applied to library collections when computers were people …