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Posted by: Nancy Lovas
This is the fourth post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post, second post, and third post. In my last post, I talked about how I started to learn to read a Sanborn map. I left out one last piece of advice. …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and Data, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
The Science, Technology, & Business Division has long sent periodic email updates on “What’s New in Science and Technology”, covering lectures, exhibits, and other news. It has been newly re-named–“What’s New in Science, Technology, & Business”–and will feature updates and information from Business too! If you want to receive occasional emails about special events, lectures, current …
Posted in: Business, Science, ST&B Division
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
This is the third post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post and the second post. I have been making steady, if slow, progress on the next steps I outlined in my last post. identifying a place to focus on which will …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and Data, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
What is endangered business data? It can probably mean a lot of things, but what comes to my mind first is this: business information and data sets that are inaccessible, nonexistent, or in danger of becoming so. For example, there could be gaps in coverage, print sets lost, microform copies decomposing or unreadable without proper …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and Data
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 …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and 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 …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and Data
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
This post was written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. In the collections of the Library of Congress, there are thousands of books in red buckram binding. These fairly innocuous exteriors can sometimes hide unique items. One such item from the stacks is the book Model Aircraft Project from …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Guest Blog Posts, Science
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
It is not every day that I have on my desk tables of revenue and expenditure from the Trustees of the River Clyde “for improving the navigation of the River Clyde, and enlarging the harbour of Glasgow, from 1st July 1850, to 30th June 1851.” I also have the July 1846-June 1847 accounts. The Accounts of …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
Have you ever gotten Caught in the Web? You’re looking for an answer to just that question and are presented with everything and the kitchen sink. Have you ever dived down the Wikipedia wormhole? You think looking at just one page will answer your question only to emerge three hours later knowing all about Magna Carta …
Posted in: Business