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Posted by: Angel Vu
What is your background? I was born and raised in the Virginia Beach area. I was accepted to Virginia Commonwealth University (Go Rams Go!) as pre-physical therapy and spent my first year heavily immersed in physical science courses. However, there was a general requirement history class that fascinated me and completely changed the course of …
Posted in: Business, Five Questions, ST&B Division
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I decided to take a short break from writing about New Orleans to highlight one really interesting title in our reference collection – English Overseas Trade Statistics by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter. This title is a favorite of mine because of all of the tables and its historical coverage and like an earlier favorite I wrote …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
With the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibit taking the field, I wanted Inside Adams to get in the game, so to speak, even if it is with a post that is not business or science themed. When it comes to sports in New Orleans people usually think of the Saints and the Pelicans. But baseball does …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Angel Vu
Our goal as librarians at the Library of Congress is to help you find information quickly. We understand that library research—especially at the Library of Congress, which has one of the most extensive collections in the world—can be overwhelming. According to the 2007 North American Title Count, there were over 1.1 million titles classified under …
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides, ST&B Division
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This great black and white photo was taken around 1910 and features the French Market in New Orleans. It’s not too far from Mme Begues, the subject of a recent blog post. The location of the French Market – near the Mississippi River and later the railroad tracks – has long been a place for …
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Angel Vu
In the past, we have mentioned business and economic charts and graphs in blog posts such as “Arthur T. Emery and His BIG Book of Charts & Graphs” and “A 1898 Big Data graphic.” However, there is always more that can be said on this topic. Although graphical displays of quantitative and statistical information in …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
For over a year the Library has conducted research orientations on Saturdays. On June 23 Business Reference takes its turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, I will be teaching a class titled So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. While the class is primarily about using the Library’s …
Posted in: Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Soulé Commercial College and Literary Institute taught business skills in New Orleans for many years - read a bit about its history.
Posted in: Business, New Orleans
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Back in January 2017 I wrote a post about Alexander Hamilton. I interspersed what I wrote with a few lyrics from the musical, when appropriate, to spice things up. The Library has taken that idea – not that I think my post was the genesis for the idea – one step further. In Letters from …
Posted in: Business