Librarian Carla Hayden: Public Service Recognition Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Librarian Carla Hayden with a special message to mark Public Service Recognition Week.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees
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Library’s Preservation Team Starts Blog
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Preservation Directorate at Library launches their own blog, Guardians of Memory.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Japanese Pilot’s Map of Pearl Harbor Attack Now at Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The remarkable story of how the Japanese post-raid assessment of their attack on Pearl Harbor came to be held by the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, History, World War II
The Mystery of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Photograph
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A conservator at the Library believes she has identified John Wood, an almost forgotten government photographer, as the man who took an iconic image of the first Lincoln inauguration.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Photos, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
Now Online! The Gandhara Scroll, a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Text of Early Buddhism
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly preserved and digitized, making it available to readers online after years of delicate work.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation