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Posted by: Matt Raymond
While we prepare for the last long weekend of the summer ? or shop for school supplies ? let us pause to remember the historic significance of Labor Day and the men and women who fought for workers? rights. In 1894, Congress passed legislation making Labor Day ? the first Monday in September ? a …
Posted in: Events, History, LC Web site, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The front page at LOC.gov will be getting a bit of a facelift in a couple of weeks.? (In fact, the plan is to time it to the 20th anniversary of the Librarian of Congress’s tenure on Sept. 14.) The changes won?t be radical, but we do hope they will be viewed as improvements.? You …
Posted in: LC Web site, New Visitors Experience
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Ever wonder what you might find if you had the opportunity to browse through some of the Library of Congress’s vast and long-forgotten copyright deposits?? (Since 1870, two copies of virtually every creative work published in America must be submitted to the Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress.) For the past …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I think this is great: For the third year in a row, the Friends of the James V. Brown Library [in Williamsport, Pa.] are sponsoring a bus to take local book-lovers of all ages to the National Book Festival. You might know Williamsport as the birthplace of the Little League World Series. Pardon the awful …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Events, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I came across a piece today from ?Inside Higher Ed? and felt a need to correct the record. The article, the subject of which was Open Library, stated in part: Q: Some serious questions have come up about the shrinking depth of subject cataloging from the book records issued by the Library of Congress. That …