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Archive: December 2008 (2 Posts)

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

A Feather in the Librarian's Cap

Posted by: Matt Raymond

  Last week was one of the busiest (if not the busiest) week I’ve seen since coming to the Library. There was the Library’s presentation of the $1 million Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity. There were a lot of great, new interactive features that came online in the Library of …

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot

Posted by: Matt Raymond

In January, the Library embarked on something that took the online community by storm. In conjunction with Flickr, we loaded a few thousand images from the Library of Congress’ vast collections and asked the user community to get involved: Give us your tags, your comments, your huddled masses … We were essentially conducting an experiment …