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Posted by: Matt Raymond
While we prepare for the last long weekend of the summer ? or shop for school supplies ? let us pause to remember the historic significance of Labor Day and the men and women who fought for workers? rights. In 1894, Congress passed legislation making Labor Day ? the first Monday in September ? a …
Posted in: Events, History, LC Web site, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The front page at LOC.gov will be getting a bit of a facelift in a couple of weeks.? (In fact, the plan is to time it to the 20th anniversary of the Librarian of Congress’s tenure on Sept. 14.) The changes won?t be radical, but we do hope they will be viewed as improvements.? You …
Posted in: LC Web site, New Visitors Experience
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The Fourth is quickly approaching ? very quickly ? and the July edition of the LOC Wise Guide brings us some timely facts about hot dogs. I don?t know about you, but it sure makes me hungry for one of those Hot Texas Wieners ? from New Jersey. Enjoy America?s 231st, everyone!
Posted in: Baseball, History, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
In this age of downloadable, linkable and cut-and-pasteable everything, it seems that kids are being exposed to copyright issues at younger and younger ages. So what better time than the present to begin educating them? That is the thought behind a new feature on our Web site (the U.S. Copyright Office is part of the …
Posted in: Education, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Gadling, the major travel blog, yesterday linked to the June edition of LOC?s ?nifty? Wise Guide, in part because of its focus on summer vacations. Here?s a little bit about what the blog thinks of the Wise Guide: The website is spirited and fun in design ? who knew a .gov could be so engaging? …
Posted in: History, LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Among the family of patriotic holidays, Independence Day’s “younger sibling”—Flag Day—arrives on the calendar roughly three weeks before we celebrate our nation’s birth. The June edition of the Library of Congress’s “Wise Guide” launched today, just in time to salute the Stars and Stripes—figuratively, if not literally. From the text: Did you know that the …
Posted in: LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I’ve mentioned my penchant for playing an internal soundtrack based on whatever is going on around me. Just like clockwork ? or calendar-work ? June 1 of each year brings a rock-solid guarantee that the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “June Is Bustin” Out All Over,? a raucous celebration of the turning of the seasons, will …
Posted in: LC Web site, Music
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Sorry about the ?radio silence? for much of the past few days ? it’s a function of the slam-bang schedule we?ve been having. I simply could not, however, merely drift into Memorial Day without writing this post. I’m as excited as anyone that this weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in the United States. …
Posted in: LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I appreciate all the feedback I have gotten about the blog thus far ? the vast majority of it, thankfully,? positive. One comment that has come across the transom, however: ?Less ?Today in History?!?? Hey, I like history! While I prefer to interpret that as a yearning hunger for even more posts across the breadth …
Posted in: LC Web site, Today in History