In accordance with the Office of Personnel Management’s directive closing the federal government two hours early today, the Library will close all public spaces (exhibits, etc.) and reading rooms at 3:30 p.m. (As Congress is in session, the La Follette Congressional Reading Room will be open. The Law Library Reading Room will also be open …
A hawk that became trapped about a week ago in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building has been safely captured. I will update this post a little later with details and images (and possibly video). UPDATE, noon EST: Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library’s weekly staff newsletter, The Gazette, provided …
(Previous posts from last week are here and here.) The hawk is still in the Main Reading Room. The rescue team found a trap that she was attracted to (which is good news for humane capture); however, the hawk had swooped in and took just enough of the bait late Sunday afternoon and was able …
Yesterday I blogged about a hawk that has come to visit our Main Reading Room. It has captured the imagination of the public, the media and researchers in the Main Reading Room, as heads are constantly craned upward (I’m really trying to swear off the bird puns!) to get a glimpse. Well, she is still …
You know that poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Allan Poe? The one where a guy holes himself up in a room surrounded by books, only to be pestered by a bird looking over his shoulder? Yeah, that one. Well, a few of our researchers might have been getting a similar feeling lately, but on …
Working-class men and women, the poor, the destitute – all individuals whom society can sometimes take for granted – held a special place for photographer Milton Rogovin. He made it his life’s work to really see them through his lens and document the humanity of those he called “the forgotten ones.” Just a few weeks …
Starting Monday, Jan. 10, our homepage at www.LOC.gov–our virtual “front door,” if you will–is getting a new look. Periodically, the Library changes its homepage (and other parts of its site, of course) to make it more useful and more responsive to users’ needs. This is one of our most ambitious refreshes yet, and many of …
Winston Churchill is widely quoted (although perhaps apocryphally) as having said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” But there are some whose living is also rife with giving. Such was the case with Elizabeth Ridgway. This remarkable woman, the Library’s director of Educational Outreach, passed …