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Posted by: Matt Raymond
To paraphrase the old Elvis Presley album, 200 million Facebook fans can’t be wrong. If you’re reading this, chances are that you might be among them. So now you can show your de facto national library a little love the easy way—by becoming a fan of our new official Facebook page! We’ve started with a …
Posted in: News, Social Media
Posted by: Matt Raymond
You know how some of the best jobs are the ones where you learn something new every day? I definitely have one of those. I was watching a new episode of History Detectives last night on PBS (one of the few shows to which I am hopelessly addicted). Tukufu Zuberi did a segment about a …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts, Preservation
Posted by: Matt Raymond
It’s sometimes said that if you want a really steady income, become an undertaker. There’s no doubt right now that times are tough all over. The news media is among the industries that have been hit especially hard–in this case, by factors including changing technology and news-consumption habits, but also by lower ad revenues from …
Posted in: Books, History, LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The Library of Congress acquires some 10,000 items a day for its collections. But many of our finest acquisitions are not bound between leather covers or captured on a reel of celluloid: They are the people who make our collections come alive, who unearth meaning and inspiration among our 653 miles of stacks. One such …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Curators