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Archive: July 2017 (19 Posts)

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The Umpire Strikes Out: Baseball Music and Labor

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This post is by Katherine Walden, a 2017 summer intern with the Junior Fellows Program. Walden is a Ph.D. candidate in American studies and sport studies at the University of Iowa, where she is also completing a master’s degree in library and information science with a focus on digital humanities and archives. She has a …

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Pic of the Week: Library Fellows Display Treasures

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This week, interns participating in the Library’s Junior Fellows Program presented more than 150 rare and unique items they researched and processed over the summer. For the first time since the program’s launch in 1991, “display day” was open to the public. Items on view included blueprints for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal, a letter …

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Inquiring Minds: The Unheralded Story of the Card Catalog

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

The library card catalog was one of the most versatile and durable technologies in history—a veritable road map for navigating a “wilderness of books”—says Peter Devereaux of the Library’s Publishing Office. His new book on the subject, “The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures,” explores the history of this once-revolutionary system and celebrates literary …

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Featured: Summertime Is Here!

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Sunshine, long days, trips to the mountains or beaches—we’re now well into the season many people anticipate long in advance of its arrival. A quick online search of the Library’s prints and photographs reveals that enthusiasm for the lazy days of summer is nothing new: the term “summer” elicits thousands of images dating from as …

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Learning the Backstory to “Rent”

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This post is by Emily Hauck, a summer intern in the Library’s Communications Office. A version of this post was first published in the Library of Congress Gazette. No matter how much you think you know about a topic, there is always more to discover. I found that out during my internship with the Library’s …

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A New Website and More: Expanding Our Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by Karen Keninger, director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). The NLS has a couple years of adventures ahead of it—adventures that sound chiefly technological but are really about meeting our patrons’ needs as reliably, easily and responsibly as possible. Technology is exciting in …