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The Project: Mapping Business History with LC Collections

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

This is the second post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post here. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to begin tackling the many questions I posed in my first post. I read blogs (The Signal‘s excellent ”Digital Scholarship Resource …

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A “Reliable Source” for the Assurance of Adequate Accommodations

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

In June 2017 the Washington Post featured a story about The Negro Motorist Green Book published from the mid 1930’s until the late 1960‘s and used by African American travelers in the United States. I had heard about them and figured we had them, which we do (New York Public Library has digitized a number …

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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 …