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Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post written by Meg McAleer, senior archives specialist in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.) Archivists have wonderful jobs. Four colleagues – Kimberly Owens, Tammi Taylor, Tracey Barton and Sherralyn McCoy – and I shared nods of understanding, delight and awe often during the last two months of 2014 as …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts
Posted by: Erin Allen
A tiny, handwritten “T” at the bottom of page 113 offered a clue that this book – long part of the Law Library collections – needed a new home: the permanent exhibition of Thomas Jefferson’s library. Every four months, Anna Bryan and other catalogers in the U.S./Anglo Division’s Rare Materials Section work on an ongoing …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Cataloging, Collections, Curators, History, Law Library, Libraries, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Every year, the Library of Congress announces the addition of 25 films to the National Film Registry, and we are always excited about the enthusiasm for the selected films and the opportunity to spread the word about our preservation efforts. The Washington Post reached out to some of the filmmakers for their thoughts on their work …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Collections, Curators, History, News, Newspapers, Photos, Preservation, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is an article in the November/December 2014 issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The issue can be read in its entirety here.) Nathan Dorn, the Law Library’s curator of rare books, highlights five favorite pieces from the Library’s Magna Carta exhibition. Statutes of England “Intricate colored-pen work graces this 14th-century miniature …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, History, Law Library, Manuscripts
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.) Could George B. McClellan have become the seventeenth President of the United States? It certainly appeared to be a possibility as Abraham Lincoln assessed the military and political landscape of the United States in the summer of …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Collections, Congress, Curators, Education, Events, History, Manuscripts, Today in History, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is an article written by Rosemary Girard, intern in the Library of Congress Office of Communications, for the Library staff newsletter, The Gazette.) After weeks of researching, curating and unearthing some of the Library of Congress’s millions of artifacts, members of the Junior Fellows Program had a chance to present their most interesting …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Collections, Copyright, Curators, Education, Events, Film, History, Law Library, Manuscripts, Music, Photos, Thomas Jefferson Building, Veterans History Project, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library adds another blog into its blogosphere today. Welcome NLS Music Notes. The blog is designed to share information about the services of the Music Section of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and its special format music collection: in braille, large print and audio. The blog will highlight the …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Blogging, Collections, Curators, Education, Music, Social Media
Posted by: Erin Allen
Persian first gained prominence a thousand years ago, a language of literature, poetry and folklore that connected people across vast stretches of Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The Library of Congress today opens “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book,” the first major U.S. exhibition to make such a wide-ranging study of the Persian language and literature. The landmark exhibition features 75 items drawn …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Events, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits: If what I do prove well, it won’t advance, They’l say it’s stoln, or else it was by chance. – Anne Bradstreet, 1678 …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Copyright, Curators, Events, History, Manuscripts, Uncategorized, Women's History