Kay Ryan Webcast Now Available
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Further to my Friday post, I wanted to point out that Kay Ryan’s webcast from last week has now been put online, here. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Posted in: Books, LC Web site, Poetry
Category: LC Web site
Catching Up, and Disability Employment Awareness Month
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Well, I’ve been a very bad blogger. But we’ve been pretty busy around here. Let’s see, what have we been up to? Well, we’ve begun taking a little bit of the Library on the road — first in Fort Lauderdale Sept. 19 and next in Denver on Oct. 27 (with Dallas, San Francisco and Los …
Posted in: Books, Events, LC Web site, Libraries, National Book Festival, News, Photos, Poetry
We've Been Scobleized!
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I stopped by our Prints and Photographs Division this afternoon to meet blogging legend Robert Scoble, partly because he was interviewing Helena Zinkham, the acting chief of P&P, about our Flickr project, but also to tell him how his book “Naked Conversations” has had an important impact on impelling the Library’s blog forward. Before I …
Posted in: Blogging, LC Web site, Photos, Technology
Keeping the Republic, 221 Years Later
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Tomorrow is Constitution Day, when we celebrate the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of that foundational document. If you’re a student who is putting the finishing touches on an assignment or essay, or a teacher who wants to inspire his or her class, you have come to the right place. The Library of Congress has excellent …
Posted in: Collections, Education, History, LC Web site
Group Ranks Library’s Web Site No. 8
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The Brookings Institution this week rated 61 federal Web sites based on 18 criteria such as publications, databases, audiovisual material, disability access, personalization, and privacy and security policies. This blog’s mother ship, LOC.gov, ranked No. 8. The full PDF report is here. (Congrats to our friends at USA.gov!) We’re constantly working to enhance our Web …
Posted in: LC Web site, News, Technology
Political Conventions Throughout History
Posted by: Matt Raymond
As Americans settle in to watch the two major party nominating conventions this week and next, have you ever wondered what political conventions were like before the days of the Web, television, or even the telegraph? The Humanities and Social Sciences division at the Library of Congress has provided timely summaries of the Democratic and …
Posted in: Events, History, LC Web site, News, Photos, Technology
What the Heck is a Dapping Duck?
Posted by: Matt Raymond
You can find out that answer to that question and many more in the August edition of the Library of Congress Wise Guide, which is now online.
Posted in: History, LC Web site
Politics, 100 Years Ago
Posted by: Matt Raymond
One of my favorite new RSS feeds or email subscriptions from the Library is put out by the folks who bring us “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” (RSS here, email sign-up here.) The feed gives a daily look at what was going on in the news 100 years ago — something I tried a couple …
Posted in: Collections, History, LC Web site, Washington DC
Hello, Dalai!
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Given the size and scope of the Library of Congress?s collections, it seems that just about any event that can be held in Washington, D.C., potentially could be supplemented by our vast holdings. Such is the case with a very special visitor this week to the U.S. Capitol.? His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, Events, Exhibitions, LC Web site, News