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Posted by: Matt Raymond
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 …
Posted in: Libraries, News, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Erin Allen
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Photos, Uncategorized
Posted by: Matt Raymond
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 …
Posted in: LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
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 …
Posted in: Education, LC Web site