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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: 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: Wendi Maloney
This interview with Ann Sullivan was first published in the September–October issue of LCM, the Library of Congress magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. After reading the interview, make sure to take the quiz that follows! How would you describe your work? I catalog children’s books at the Library of Congress. This …
Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Education, Libraries, Literacy, My Job
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest blog post by Sukanya Barman. She was an 11th-grade student at White Station High School in Memphis when she became a winner of the 2017–18 Letters About Literature contest, a reading and writing competition for students in grades four through 12 that involves reading a work and writing to its author …
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest blog post by Malavika Kannan, a senior from Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida. She is a national winner of the 2017–18 Letters About Literature contest, a reading and writing competition for students in grades four through 12 that involves reading a work and writing to its author (living or dead). …
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Danna Bell of the Library’s Educational Outreach Office. It first appeared in “A Library for Kids,” the September–October issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. Why do pigeons bob their heads when they walk? Are children allowed in the Library …
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For more than two centuries, American library architecture aspired to accommodate the physical dimensions of books and the furniture and spaces designed to store and display them. “American Libraries 1730–1950”—a new book by Kenneth Breisch—celebrates the history of that architecture, from classical temples to ivy-covered campus citadels to modern glass boxes—whose roofs now house more …
Posted in: Libraries, Photos, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Today, the Library of Congress celebrates its 218th birthday. On April 24, 1800, President John Adams approved an appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of “such books as may be necessary for the use of [C]ongress.” The first books purchased were ordered from London and arrived in 1801. The collection of 740 volumes and three …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Libraries, Thomas Jefferson Building