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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
On Thanksgiving Day I received with my newspaper a hefty amount of fliers from various retailers all touting their Christmas bargains. Advertising for Christmas shopping isn’t exactly a new concept, but what I find interesting is the evolution of the buying season and the tricks advertisers have used in their advertisements to influence shopper behavior. …
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In September I volunteered at the 2013 National Book Festival in the Library of Congress pavilion where the Science and Business sections shared a space. I spent a few hours talking to people about the Library, as well as what I do as a business reference librarian. I brought along a few items that I …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about the Arcade in Washington, D.C.
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Cookbooks and Food, Washington and the Capitol
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While thinking about a topic for this year’s Labor Day blog post, I was reviewing what we had done in the past and I realized quite a few were labor-related. So I decided that instead of writing something entirely new, a review of previous blog posts would make a good post. A Factory, a …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While doing research I got distracted by this wonderful advertisement published in the New York Tribune on October 5, 1920. It was an advertisement from the New York Edison Company touting the benefits of electricity, mostly for efficiency and safety, for businesses. But what really caught my attention was the hand drawn caricatures, for lack …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about the history of the ZIP code.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In Business we get a lot of questions about historical stock prices. While there are a number of subscription databases that do have deep historical coverage of daily stock price data, they often aren’t widely accessible. Since most people who are asking the question often have limited avenues for research, I prefer to direct researchers …
Posted in: Business
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
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