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Posted by: Erin Allen
To say I’m not very superstitious is like saying the sky isn’t blue. I can probably attribute it (very lovingly) to my mother. I can recall on a few occasions being halfway down the road when a black cat crossed in front of our car and my mom immediately turned around to go back the …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Folksonomies, LC Web site
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by William Kellum, manager in the Library’s Web Services Division.) Website Updates Today in History is an online presentation of historic events illustrated by items from the Library’s digital collections. First established in 1997, the site was migrated this month from the American Memory site to a new home …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, Congress, Education, Exhibitions, Folksonomies, History, Law Library, LC Web site, Maps, New Online, Today in History
Posted by: Erin Allen
As they say in the Twitterverse, ICYMI (In Case You Missed It), the Library of Congress has a new Librarian of Congress. And a new Twitter feed! Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will be taking to social media to post about her work at the Library and the discoveries she makes along the way. Make …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Education, LC Web site, Pinterest, Social Media, Technology
Posted by: John Sayers
(The following post was written by Peter Armenti, literature specialist in the Library’s Digital Reference Section and a regular contributor to the poetry and literature blog, “From the Catbird Seat.”) For nearly 20 years, the Today in History feature has been one of the most popular areas of the Library of Congress website. Drawing heavily …
Posted in: Education, History, LC Web site, Today in History
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by William Kellum, manager in the Library’s Web Services Division.) National Book Festival The Library’s 16th Annual National Book Festival takes place on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., and we’ve updated our Mobile App and website with all the details. The app, available …
Posted in: Collections, Events, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, Music, National Book Festival, New Online, News, Newspapers, Podcasts, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Want to read how an 18th-century newspaper covered the inauguration of George Washington? How about learning what issues divided Congress in the early 1800s? Going back into early American history is now possible due to new digital content that has been added to Chronicling America, the open access database of historic U.S. newspapers that is …
Posted in: Cataloging, Collections, History, LC Web site, News, Newspapers, Technology
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Katherine Blood of the Prints and Photographs Division.) Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson was already a celebrity when tapped in April 1917 to lead the federal government’s Division of Pictorial Publicity — an arm of Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information. He was enlisted by Committee head George Creel, …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site, Photos
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following post is by Jennifer Gavin, senior public affairs specialist at the Library of Congress.) In the United States, a century ago, there were more than 8 million citizens of German origin or with German ancestry – the largest single group among those of foreign birth or ancestry, but still less than 10 percent …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, News, Newspapers, Photos
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by William Kellum, manager in the Library’s Web Services Division.) July was a relatively quiet month for the Library’s websites, highlighted by the long-planned retirement of THOMAS, covered in this excellent blog post from the Law Library’s In Custodia Legis blog. New in Manuscripts The William Henry Harrison Papers have recently …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, New Online, News, Newspapers