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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett headlined this year's National Book Festival, promoting her book "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution," in an onstage conversation with festival co-Chairman David Rubenstein.
Posted in: Books, Gazette, National Book Festival, News, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cassandra Gardner started working for the Library while still in high school. She never left and, forty years later, is retiring this month. Next year, she says, she'll look for a parttime job "for travel and casino money" because "life is too short not to enjoy yourself."
Posted in: Copyright, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
During World War II, the Office of War Information recorded news and American propaganda onto 16-inch discs which were then broadcast domestically and overseas. The Library acquired tens of thousands of these discs after the war and has been working to preserve them ever since. Colin Hochstetler, a Library Junior Fellow, talks about his work with these time-capsule discs in this question-and-anwer session.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Cataloging, Collections, Gazette, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Preservation, Radio, World War II
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Angela Napili is a senior research librarian at the Library's Congressional Research Service. In this Q&A, she says she's had a charmed life, inluding getting out of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and settling in San Francisco. An adventurous sort, she's an excellent photographer and National Park Service volunteer, often working at the Washington Monument. Ask her about her award-winning squirrel photo!
Posted in: Asian American, Congressional Research Service, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Chaeli Cantwell is a producer in the Multimedia Group, where she produces videos for the National Film and Recording registries, as well as reporting and producing videos from some of the the Library's most fascinating collections, including those of J. Robert Oppenheimer and George Gershwin.
Posted in: Gazette, Library Work and Employees, National Film Registry, National Recording Registry, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Ashley Dickerson is the acquisitions and cataloging librarian for Finland and the Baltic states. She tells us about her deep expertise with Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics, along with her love for new restaurants, archery and power lifting.
Posted in: Cataloging, Gazette, Library Work and Employees
Posted by: Maria Peña
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's final lecture last week in the Coolidge Auditorium was a love letter to poetry to libraries and librarians. Her lecture, titled “Against Breaking: On the Public and Private Power of Poetry,” framed poetry as a shared, not solitary, experience and as a celebration of humanity’s range of voices and perspectives.
Posted in: Events, Gazette, Hispanic American History, Hispanic and Latino, Library Work and Employees, Poetry, Womens History, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Eileen J. Manchester, manager of the Library's Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative, tells us about her international background -- born in Germany, English is her second language and she also speaks French. She tutored at her local library while growing up in North Carolina, then interned at the Freedom School Partners literacy program and went to South Africa to study its education system. She continued her studies of early modern women writers at the University of Oxford and came to the Library as a junior fellow in the summer of 2018.
Posted in: Gazette, Junior Fellows Program, Library Work and Employees, Womens History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
A major new Library exhibition, “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution,” uses original documents such as letters, diaries, maps, newspapers and political cartoons to shed light on striking likenesses between men long supposed to be polar opposites -- George Washington and King George III. The two opposed one another during the Revolutionary War, but actually shared many personal and leadership traits. The exhibit, a joint project between the Library of Congress and the Royal Archives, runs at the Library through next March. It is also online via the Library's website and in a companion book.
Posted in: American Revolution, Exhibitions, Gazette, George Washington, LCM, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building