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Posted by: Matt Raymond
I didn’t want any more time to go by this week without welcoming the newest member of the Library of Congress blog family. “In Custodia Legis” isn’t the guy who cleans up after the legislature adjourns. Rather, it’s the new blog of the Law Library of Congress. As chief blogger Andrew “Middle Name Not Lloyd” …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Law Library, LC Web site, Libraries, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
There’s something very satisfying in music about the number three: three notes in a basic chord, a romantic waltz in 3/4 time, the three-movement form of early symphonies. So it’s appropriate that the Library’s third blog (behind this one and “Inside Adams” from the Science, Technology and Business Division) would come from the Music Division. …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Concerts, Curators, Music, Social Media
Posted by: Matt Raymond
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the new Science, Technology and Business blog has a timely post: “Candied Yams or Candied Sweet Potatoes?”
Posted by: Matt Raymond
This feels a little like a birth announcement: The Library of Congress has launched its second official blog since the one you’re now reading took the blogosphere by storm in April 2007. (Hyperbole much?) The Library’s Science, Technology and Business Division is an excellent addition to our growing social-media family. The very name of the …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Curators, News, Science, Technology
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Right now, here and there all over the world, people are sitting down with a good book and enjoying a good read. Sprawled on the lawn, curled up on the sofa, sitting on the steps in the piazza — they’re communing with a great author, or a funny author, or an author who’s telling them …
Posted in: Blogging, Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, National Book Festival, New Visitors Experience, Podcasts, Poetry, Social Media, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
If you’ve visited this blog before, you might be doing a double-take. The Web Services team here at the Library (who are doing some simply amazing things) has given the blog a fresher look and new functionality. First, there’s a cleaner, more aesthetic look to it, and I like how the collections are now highlighted …
Posted in: Blogging, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
For more than two years now, I’ve been the lone blogger on LOC.gov. As most bloggers know, the key to nurturing a growing group of engaged readers is mainly a function of volume: lots of compelling posts, posted with regularity. Unfortunately for the blog, I wear many hats in my current position, which far too …
Posted in: Blogging, News, Social Media
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Howdy, folks! (Sorry, my Wyoming roots are showing.) The Library of Congress finally has its own official Twitter feed. You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/librarycongress “Library of Congress” was too long as a user name, so in the spirit of Twitter itself, we’ve been truncated. As I’ve been alluding for some time, we are on …
Posted in: Blogging, Technology
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I stopped by our Prints and Photographs Division this afternoon to meet blogging legend Robert Scoble, partly because he was interviewing Helena Zinkham, the acting chief of P&P, about our Flickr project, but also to tell him how his book “Naked Conversations” has had an important impact on impelling the Library’s blog forward. Before I …
Posted in: Blogging, LC Web site, Photos, Technology