This month we have been featuring pictures and stories about our current interns. I thought it would be fun to change it up and take a look back at the Library’s interns from yesteryear. With that said, our Pic of the Week features the Library’s 1965 intern class. These interns were outstanding library school graduates […]
Our Pic of the Week features our Junior Fellow Brian Horowitz meeting the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Hadley Billington. Dr. Billington was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and sworn in as the 13th Librarian of Congress on September 24, 1987.
Today’s Pic of the Week shows the Division’s two Junior Fellows, Laura Beth Jackson and Brian Horowitz, at the annual event the Library holds where the Junior Fellows showcase their projects. Laura Beth’s project was about the Library’s materials from the National Recovery Administration, and her exhibit included two of the Codes of Fair Competition […]
I was on the hunt for some information on Panama Canal bonds and saw the item featured in today’s Pic of the Week. The glorious cover caught my attention and I just had to know more. I brought it back to my desk and had Jan Herd, who speaks Spanish, look at it so we […]
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 […]
One of our volunteers discovered this intriguing magazine while he was combing the stacks for interesting and lesser known publications. Discovery: an illustrated journal of scientific news and progress for everybody launched its first issue in May 1907. Its aim was to bring the public in sympathetic touch with scientists and their work throughout the […]
This week’s Pic of the Week is in honor of the 4th of July. Last year Inside Adams published two July 4th themed posts – one on barbecue and another on fireworks – but this year I decided on the simple approach, a picture of the American flag flying from the flagpole in front […]
Today’s Pic of the Week is a detail from the Thomas Jefferson Murals by Ezra Winter on the walls of the South Reading Room (AKA Science & Business Reading Room). It is the last scene in the mural dedicated to Education and Democracy and features the Capitol dome with a group of people, one of […]
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 […]
Today’s photo features a map of the telephone lines found in the October 1894 issue of the National Telephone Directory from American Telephone and Telegraph Company. As noted on the title page, this publication “is intended to be a List of Stations Connected by Metallic-Circuit Lines” within the “LONG DISTANCE” System and includes businesses and […]