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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Kelsey Corlett-Rivera, an international language librarian for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, received a 2024 Librarian of Congress Award for expanding acquisition and discoverability of accessible books. Here, she discusses her background and work at the Library.
Posted in: Gazette, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, National Library Service (NLS)
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Bestselling author Louis Bayard has written nine historical novels over the past two decades and has researched them all at the Library, poring over maps, sorting through personal love letters, consulting societal details of the lost worlds that he brings to life. His latest novel, “The Wildes,” a fictionalized account of Oscar Wilde and his …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, LGBTQ, Libraries, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Monica Smith, chief of the Library's informal learning office, talks about her work and the goals of the program. She joined the Library in 2023 after three decades at the Smithsonian; she's also a veteran world traveler.
Posted in: Curators, Gazette, Kids, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Angela Kinney was named deputy director of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate in November. This is a brief question and answer article about her long career at the Library.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division, Gazette, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Guy Lamolinara is the head of the Library's Center for the Book, a job that calls on his decades of work at the Library and lifelong love of literature.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Gazette, Libraries, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Library Work and Employees, Literacy, My Job, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cheryl Regan is a veteran of the Library's exhibits office, bringing the treasures of the world's largest library to the public. Here, she answers a few questions about her work with exhibitions such as "With Malice Towards None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" and "American Treasures." The latter ran for 10 years.
Posted in: Civil War, Exhibitions, LCM, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
George Chauncey is the DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University and the 2022 recipient of the Library’s John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. He wrote this piece about how he used libraries to research his landmark book, “Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940."
Posted in: Kluge Center, LCM, LGBTQ, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, Researcher Stories, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Jurij Dobczansky is a senior cataloging specialist in the East Central Europe Section of the Germanic and Slavic Division. Tell us about your background. Growing up in New Haven, Connecticut, I spoke Ukrainian at home until I went to kindergarten. My parents were World War II refugees from Ukraine. After regular school hours, I attended …
Posted in: Libraries, Library Work and Employees
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
"We at the Library of Congress, in our role as the national library of the United States, are inspired and deeply moved by the role libraries and librarians are playing in Ukraine. We wholeheartedly support and admire their work." Read more for Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden's full statement on Ukraine.
Posted in: Libraries, Library Work and Employees