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Posted by: Neely Tucker
It's Preservation Week, and the Library's Preservation Research and Testing Division has helped set national standards in cultural heritage institutions for half a century. Among other highlights, they've helped save "Captain America" comics and discovered Thomas Jefferson's edits in the Declaration of Independence.
Posted in: Comics, Libraries, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation, Science
Posted by: Michelle Rago
The Library of Congress website debuted on June 22, 1994. Explore versions of loc.gov from the past 25 years through web archives.
Posted in: LC Web site, Libraries, New Online, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Gayle Osterberg leaves the Library after a stellar run as the Library's director of communications.
Posted in: Libraries, News, Pic of the Week
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: Carla D. Hayden
What is a library? “A quiet place for study and reflection” is one answer that might spring to mind. If you take advantage of story times and author talks, you might say, “A social place for programs and gatherings.” Our view here at the Library of Congress is the image of a treasure chest, filled …
Posted in: LC Web site, Libraries, New Online, New Visitors Experience
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