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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
We're down to the college football national championship game next week and the NFL playoff are just around the corner. It's a perfect time to check in with "Football Nation" author Susan Reyburn as she chooses favorite items from the Library's collections. This article is slightly adapted from the January-February issue of the Library of Congress Magazine.
Posted in: LCM, Library Work and Employees, Manuscripts, Music
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mariah Carey surprised a festive crowd during the Library’s Santa Claus edition of “Live! At the Library“ last night, making an entrance as her signature hit, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” played in the Great Hall. Decked out in a stage-worthy sparkling dress and pink high heels, she picked up the song's framed certificate of induction from the National Recording Registry from Librarian Carla Hayden and - like most everyone else at the party - posed for a couple of pictures by the Christmas tree.
Posted in: Christmas, Curators, Events, Library Work and Employees, Music, National Recording Registry, News, Performing Arts, Social Media
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A sizzle reel introduces the 25 influential films from the past 102 years have been selected for the 2023 Library of Congress National Film Registry, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today, inluding blockbusters such as "Fame," "Home Alone" and "Apollo 13," the popular romance "Love & Basketball," and influential feature films and documentaries such as "12 Years a Slave," "Matewan," "Alambrista!" and "Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision."
Posted in: Asian American, Film, Hispanic American History, Hispanic and Latino, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, News, Performing Arts, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation, Technology, Video, Women's History
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: Wendi Maloney
As the clock struck 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 5, 1933, a truck full of beer departed Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis. KMOX CBS Radio excitedly broadcast the event to the nation -- Prohibition had ended. Beer was on en route to the White House. This slice of history is just one example of thousands of broadcasts that the Library's Radio Preservation Task Force have brought to light in archives across the country since its launch in December 2014.
Posted in: Congress, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"Maestro," the high-profile film biography of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, hits theaters this week, starring Bradley Cooper. The Library holds a vast trove of Bernstein's papers, some 400,000 items that document every stage of his life and career. In a brief video, Mark Horowitz, a senior music specialist at the Library and the archivist for the Bernstein Collection, gives a tour of the material and its cultural significance.
Posted in: Film, Library Work and Employees, Music, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Performing Arts, Theater
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Christopher Oakley, a prominent film animator turned university historian, used his knowledge of computer modeling -- and his research at the LIbrary of Congress -- to help solve a small but important mystery: Where exactly did Lincoln stand while delivering his famed Gettysburg Address?
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, Researcher Stories, Today in History, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Nathan Dorn is the curator of the rare books collection at the Law Library of Congress. He builds the Library's holdings of centuries of legal texts from many nations, including early methods of legal procedures to unusual subjects such as witchcraft and miracles.
Posted in: Curators, Law Library, LCM, Library Work and Employees, Rare Book and Special Collections