Sondheim at the Library: A Friendship with “Steve”
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.
Archive for the Library Work and Employees Category (24 posts)
Friends, Gifts & Giving: Kaffie Milikin
Kaffie Milikin, director of development at the Library, talks about her job and the new Friends of the Library of Congress support group.
Thomas Jefferson’s Quran at the World Expo in Dubai
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.
Library Legend John Y. Cole Retires
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.
Maya Blue and the Vessels of the Diving Gods
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.
Library’s Junior Fellows: Online Interns Get the Job Done
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.
Japan in U.S. Children’s Books: “A New World”
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.
Pride Night Online! Coming June 28
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.
Reading Rooms Reopen!
The Library’s reading rooms are beginning to reopen to researchers for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than 14 months ago.
Now Online! Presidential Papers – Love and Heartbreak, War and Politics
All 23 sets of presidential papers held by the Library, a total of more than 3.3 million images, now are available and searchable online, an accomplishment more than two decades in the making.