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Posted by: Neely Tucker
To celebrate the start of the 2023 season, the Library is pleased to announce a new digital collection: Early Baseball Publications. The collection, which will grow over time, provides online access to more than 120 early baseball publications.
Posted in: Baseball, Collections, LC Web site
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
An overview of what users can expect at the 20th Library of Congress National Book Festival, all-virtual for the first time in 2020.
Posted in: Books, LC Web site, National Book Festival
Posted by: Michelle Rago
The Library of Congress website debuted on June 22, 1994. Explore versions of loc.gov from the past 25 years through web archives.
Posted in: LC Web site, Libraries, New Online, Today in History
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
Less than half a year ago, I announced that the Library of Congress is providing Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public for the first time. Since the launch of the CRS reports website, crsreports.congress.gov, the Library has made available all new or updated reports. Created for Congress by experts in CRS, the reports …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, LC Web site
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Jer Thorp, the Library’s innovator-in-residence. On November 8, he took over the @LibraryCongress Twitter account to host a #SerendipityRun in which participants connected with one another and shed new light on Library holdings by taking a serendipitous “run” through the online collections. Here Thorp describes the inspiration behind this …
Posted in: Collections, LC Web site, Social Media
Posted by: John Sayers
And now for something completely different. On November 8, Jer Thorp, the Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence, will take over the @LibraryCongress Twitter account to host a #SerendipityRun. What’s a #SerendipityRun? Let’s ask Jer: #SerendipityRun is an experiment in collaborative serendipity. During the run, we’ll see how far and wide we can range across the Library’s …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Free to Use and Reuse, LC Web site
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, who interned this summer in the Library’s Communications Office through the Junior Fellows Program. He is a student at Kenyon College, where he is pursuing a degree in classical mathematics with a concentration in scientific computing. The post was first published on “The Signal,” a blog covering …
Posted in: Copyright, Free to Use and Reuse, LC Web site, Social Media, Technology
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
What is a library? “A quiet place for study and reflection” is one answer that might spring to mind. If you take advantage of story times and author talks, you might say, “A social place for programs and gatherings.” Our view here at the Library of Congress is the image of a treasure chest, filled …
Posted in: LC Web site, Libraries, New Online, New Visitors Experience
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
‘Tis the season to be jolly, be of good cheer and…be a thorough list-maker. Gift lists, grocery lists, invitation lists … there are so many things, and so little time that lists are essential to helping us make a bit more sense of it all. The Library offers a lot of great resources that can …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, History, LC Web site, Music, Photos, Science, Veterans History Project