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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 …
Posted in: Baseball, Collections, Music
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 …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Exhibitions, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
John Szwed has many accomplishments to his name. To name a few, he directed the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, taught anthropology and African American studies for 26 years at Yale University, played jazz professionally for more than a decade, and wrote or edited 18 books, including “So What: The Life of Miles …
Posted in: Collections, Music, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division. During the American Revolution, as many as one-third of American colonists remained loyal to Britain. These are the Tories we learned about in grade school, also known as loyalists. Why did these Americans choose to remain British, and what did their …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Matthew Barton, the recorded sound curator in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Bob Wolff, the subject of the post, died on July 15 at age 96. In spring 2013, the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation of the Library of Congress was honored to add the personal collection …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Baseball, Collections
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 …
Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Libraries, Researcher Stories
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Photos
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Manuscripts
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 …
Posted in: New Online, Technology