The Library of Congress continually leaves me awestruck with the vast amount of information they have available, and the accuracy and quickness that they provide research and reference services to our patrons.
The Junior Fellow internship program is itself an amazing program which introduces undergraduate as well as graduate students to a vast world of information.
Sean DiLeonardi, 2021 Junior Fellow, answers five questions about his work with the Science, Technology and Business Division’s “Arithmetic, Numeracy, Literacy and Imagination” project.
Hannah Spring Pfeifer, one of the 2021 Library of Congress Junior Fellows in the Science, Technology and Business Division, reflects on her work this summer.
...it also became clear to me that I was entering into a rare opportunity. During my ten weeks with the Library of Congress, I would have access to a collection of materials composed largely of textbooks, cypher books, or treatises in the history of math--a collection most of which had never been digitized and, as a result, was generally understudied.