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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
… And despite all good cheer, It sized up as “boringest night of the year.” Still 36 hours until Christmas dawning, And reruns of reruns were leaving ‘em yawning. The tree decorating had happened last week The lineup of movies appeared rather bleak. The cookies were eaten; the sprinkles were scattered No Christmas ‘till Christmas! …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Education, Libraries, Preservation, Uncategorized
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
This guest post comes from Audrey Fischer of the Library’s Communications Office: Generations of former kids who learned their ABCs on PBS will be celebrating today’s 40th anniversary of the show “Sesame Street.” (external link) The Library’s been a fan right along! In April 2000, for example, when the Library of Congress celebrated its bicentennial, …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Events, National Book Festival
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Chapter two is now online, exclusively at read.gov. This episode was penned by Katherine Paterson. What will happen next?? Find out in chapter 3, by Kate DiCamillo, on Oct. 23. And don’t forget our new social media sharing tool, so that you can easily alert friends on your social network of choice.
Posted in: Books, Education, LC Web site, National Book Festival, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Have you caught the “Exquisite Corpse” fever yet? It’s catching on even halfway around the world!
Posted in: Books, Education, LC Web site, National Book Festival
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The next two days for us will be a whirlwind of events as we celebrate the ninth annual edition of the National Book Festival. But there’s one aspect I just absolutely had to call out. Our folks have been busily working behind the scenes on a revamp of our literacy.gov website, which promotes lifelong literacy …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Education, Events, LC Web site, National Book Festival, News, 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: Jennifer Gavin
When revolutionary-turned-president Thomas Jefferson still walked the streets of Washington, D.C., there were people who wanted to give him a good jab with their index finger and hand him a piece of their minds. These days, here on Capitol Hill, you can give Thomas Jefferson a jab … and dig a little deeper into his …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Collections, Education, Exhibitions, LC Web site, New Visitors Experience, Technology, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
For the past 10 weeks, 47 college students have been digging through a variety of Library of Congress collections–finding amazing stuff so people like you can come here and get lost in it. Such as? Such as an ad for a patent medicine that figured in an 1898 murder case; a first edition in Russian …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Books, Cataloging, Collections, Copyright, Education, Poetry
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Blog. Twitter. YouTube. iTunes. Yeah, we speak Web 2.0. You nation’s Library has millions of stories to tell, so we’re trying to tell them as many places and to as many people as possible–whether on our own website or elsewhere. And now you can add another biggie to the list: iTunes U. For those who …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Cataloging, Collections, Education, LC Web site, News, Podcasts, Social Media, Video