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Posted by: Matt Raymond
A number of news outlets have been focusing on a statement by President Obama in support of the automobile industry in his State of the Union Address: “I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.” (One example is here.) A number of them are citing the Library of Congress as …
Posted in: History, LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Before you watch the Stevie Wonder concert last night at the White House in celebration of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song tonight on PBS (you will watch, won’t you?), you really need to see the celebrated artist kick it “classical style” in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. (The White House event was …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Concerts, Events, LC Web site, Music, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Are you or any of your DC friends looking to make last-minute plans tonight? How about attending the public opening of “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition” from 5 to 9 p.m. this evening? Details here, online exhibition here. Normal visitor hours resume tomorrow (Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Events, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
I want to preface this post by reiterating one of our general disclaimers up front, to wit: “This blog does not represent official Library of Congress communications.” Because this post will edge slightly closer to “editorializing” than most of my previous posts. Working in the Office of Communications as I do, I’m aware of the …
Posted in: Books, Collections, LC Web site, Libraries, Technology
Posted by: Matt Raymond
In January, the Library embarked on something that took the online community by storm. In conjunction with Flickr, we loaded a few thousand images from the Library of Congress’ vast collections and asked the user community to get involved: Give us your tags, your comments, your huddled masses … We were essentially conducting an experiment …
Posted in: Collections, LC Web site, News, Photos
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Happy Halloween to all! There’s no better time to point you to the LOC’s “Wise Guide” for October, which explores how trick-or-treating got started: The origins of present day “trick-or-treat” date back to the Celtic tradition of offering gifts of fruits and nuts to appease wandering spirits. If not placated, the villagers feared that the …
Posted in: History, LC Web site
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
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
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