Collecting the Globe: The Library Abroad
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Library offices abroad acquire hard-to-find material from developing countries around the world.
Posted in: LCM, Library Work and Employees
Category: Library Work and Employees
Sondheim at the Library: A Friendship with “Steve”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist in the Music Division, recounts his long friendship with Stephen Sondheim and how the maestro's papers will come to the Library.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Music, Performing Arts, Theater
Friends, Gifts & Giving: Kaffie Milikin
Posted by: John Sayers
Kaffie Milikin, director of development at the Library, talks about her job and the new Friends of the Library of Congress support group.
Posted in: Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Thomas Jefferson’s Quran at the World Expo in Dubai
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Quran, one of the treasures of the Library, is making its first-ever appearance in the Middle East this month, debuting at the glittering World Expo in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It will be featured in the U.S. Pavilion until the end of 2021.
Posted in: Arab/Arab American, Library Work and Employees, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Presidents
Library Legend John Y. Cole Retires
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
John Y. Cole is the historian of the Library of Congress and the former director of the Library's Center for the Book. He began working at the Library in 1966 and is retiring this month.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Library Work and Employees, My Job, News
Maya Blue and the Vessels of the Diving Gods
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The ceramics created by ancient Maya potters make for some of the most vibrantly colored objects that survive in the archaeological record of the Americas. John Hessler, curator of the Library's Kislak collection, explains how their distinctive blue color has survived for centuries.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library Work and Employees, Native Americans, Preservation and Conservation
Library’s Junior Fellows: Online Interns Get the Job Done
Posted by: Neely Tucker
For 30 years now, the Library's Junior Fellows program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with experiences in everything the world’s largest library has to offer. This year's class of 42 interns shows off their research projects.
Posted in: Farm Security Administration Photographs, Hispanic Division, Junior Fellows Program, Law Library, Library Work and Employees
Japan in U.S. Children’s Books: “A New World”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Sybille Jagusch, chief of the Library's Literature Center, has just published "Japan and American Children's Books," a gorgeously illustrated volume that details how Japan and Japanese culture has been portrayed in American children's books over the past two centuries.
Posted in: Asian American, Asian American History, Kids, Library Work and Employees, News, Researcher Stories, Writers
Pride Night Online! Coming June 28
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Of the Library's many Pride Month events is Pride Night Online, in which Megan Metcalf, the Women's Gender and LGBTQIA+ studies librarian and collection specialist, will conduct a free online workshop to researching LGBTQ material in our collections.
Posted in: Events, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees