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Posted by: Matt Raymond
National Poetry Month ended exactly one week ago, but today?s ?TIH? celebrates the May 7, 1892, birth of the ?poet-librarian,? Archibald MacLeish, the ninth Librarian of Congress. The Pulitzer Prize winner was Librarian of Congress for five years ? a relatively brief span, given that only 13 individuals have held the post in the Library?s …
Posted in: Events, Today in History
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The Library of Congress-led Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control has its next meeting Wednesday, May 9, in Chicago. While registration closed last week, you can go to the working group’s Web site here to see where the discussion is going. The background paper for the Chicago meeting is here (PDF). A final …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
May 4 is for the birds. Literally. Today’s “TIH” discusses “Bird Day” and all things ornithological. I truly do learn something new every day here.
Posted in: Today in History
Posted by: Matt Raymond
It’s an oft-cited fact that the Library of Congress takes into its collections a staggering 10,000 items every single day. So it’s nice to be able to talk, about what we try to give back, at least in the broadest sense of the term. Today I received the following report from Library Services (the largest …
Posted in: Libraries, News, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The names ?Edward and Marian MacDowell? might not be immediately recognizable to a wide swath of the population. But try some of these names on for size: Aaron Copland, Willa Cather, Leonard Bernstein, Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, James Baldwin, and Thornton Wilder. Those are but a handful of the luminaries who spent some of their …
Posted in: Curators, Exhibitions, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Another busy day! I spent this morning in a hearing at the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, during which Librarian of Congress James Billington and our Chief Operating Officer, Jo Ann Jenkins, testified on the Library’s budget priorities for Fiscal Year 2008, which begins Oct. 1, 2007. The Librarian discussed requests including …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Kansas takes centerstage “Today in History,” as a pair of Sunflower State notables are celebrated, including playwright William Inge, born this day in 1913.
Posted in: Today in History
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Good Housekeeping is probably best known both as a magazine and for its famous “Seal.” Today’s “TIH” hearkens back to this day in 1885 when the magazine itself was first launched.
Posted in: Today in History
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The webcast from Monday’s big Waldseemüller Map event is now up. The previous link has also been updated. UPDATE: It has been suggested that the link to the webcast is broken, but it doesn’t appear so on my machine. Anyone else having trouble with it? UPDATE: The broken link has been corrected.
Posted in: Events, LC Web site