One of the long standing missions of Inside Adams is to publish posts about the Adams Building. It’s been a while since we’ve done that, and I think National Library Week is a great time for another post. By happenstance, a recent post about the Ben Franklin University in Washington, D.C. linked to a page […]
Have you ever found yourself struggling to find information online that isn’t located behind a pay wall? Are you trying to do business research but don’t know where to start? Do you want to utilize the Library of Congress’ resources but live far from D.C.? The Library of Congress wants to assist you with your […]
This blog post was authored by Fay Menacker, Dr.PH, RN, a volunteer in the Science Reference Section and Stephanie Marcus, science reference specialist. I became interested in Josephine Roche when I was a volunteer doing quality control in the Library’s Collections Management Division and came across an interesting study she had authored in 1918. My […]
This post is by Kellie Taylor, Ed.D., the 2018-2019 Library of Congress Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow and was originally posted on the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. How does science affect our daily lives? Or as students might ask, “Why do I have to learn this?” In addition to making communications faster […]
I have been wanting to delve into the L’Aerophile collection for business themed posts for quite a while; I’ve found a number of things I want to write about, but I’ve chosen to start with Amelia Earhart, because March is Women’s History Month. The L’Aerophile collection was featured in a post by Angel Vu in […]
This post was written by Science Reference Specialist Nate Smith. This year marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most important breakthroughs in the field of chemistry: the Periodic Table of Elements. While there have been over 700 distinct iterations of the table (Scerri, 20), the first tables that explicitly showed periodicity were created […]
While doing research in Chronicling America, I ran across an edition of Saint Paul, Minnesota’s Appeal from September 24, 1910. The Western Appeal and the Appeal were noted African-American weekly newspapers published in St. Paul that covered news but also provided a way for African American businesses to advertise in the St. Paul area. The […]
This post was written by Nancy Groce, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who is a Senior Folklife Specialist in the American Folklife Center. After years of planning, research, fieldwork, and archiving, the American Folklife Center is excited to begin online posting of material from its Occupational Folklife Project, a major oral history initiative featuring in-depth interviews […]
This post was written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. “For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man,” wrote Wilbur Wright in a letter to Octave Chanute in May 1900. (Octave Chanute Papers: Special Correspondence–Wright Brothers, 1900, in […]
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. We’ve all heard of Edward Jenner and his work with smallpox, but I wonder if anyone reading this has heard of Caleb Hillier Parry? When Jenner wrote his Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, […]