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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
INSIDE ADAMS IS TURNING TWO! When we launched Inside Adams on October 30, 2009 we became the second official Library of Congress blog- the first was the LC Blog (launched April 2007). In the two years since we published our first post “…Never be afraid of a book,” the Library has added 5 more official blogs to …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This post is about the Itzamna figure on the bronze door of the John Adams Building.
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Artist Lee Lawrie’s figures on the Adams Building bronze doors provide us with an opportunity to highlight important mythical and heroic figures that helped promote the written word. For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month we highlighted the figure of Brahma. It seems only fitting that for Hispanic Heritage Month we feature the bronze image of the …
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The title of our blog post this week is “Sun Spots this Summer?” so we are highlighting one of the architectural grilles that resembles a sunburst design. These grilles typically disguise the Adams Building’s ventilation system and are visible throughout the building. This one is a bit hard to spot (no pun intended!), since it …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
I can remember when I headed down to my local library and looked through the card catalog to find information. I even remember classes in high school on how to use the card catalog. Nowadays, many library users have never heard of a card catalog and if they see one, they might think it’s an interesting old …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Blog post about some of the marbles used in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month our Pic of the Week features Lee Lawrie’s sculptural relief of the Hindu God Brahma on the bronze doors of the John Adams Building. When we first launched Inside Adams, Donna Scanlon wrote about Our Bronze Doors, which symbolize the history of written word. During my college years, I …
Posted in: Asian American History, John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Our Pic of the Week features one of the walls in the center room of the Science and Business Reading Room that houses the massive National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints set. I bet many of you are asking, “What is the National Union Catalog?” Commonly referred to as the NUC or Mansell (Mansell is the …
Posted in: Favorites From the Fifth Floor, John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This week we are featuring two photographs of the public entrance to the Science and Business Reading Room taken over thirty years apart. I found the Science Reading Room image (left), as I was browsing through an old pamphlet box of historical material about the Library. We believe it was taken sometime in the late …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week, ST&B Division