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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cassandra Gardner started working for the Library while still in high school. She never left and, forty years later, is retiring this month. Next year, she says, she'll look for a parttime job "for travel and casino money" because "life is too short not to enjoy yourself."
Posted in: Copyright, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
During World War II, the Office of War Information recorded news and American propaganda onto 16-inch discs which were then broadcast domestically and overseas. The Library acquired tens of thousands of these discs after the war and has been working to preserve them ever since. Colin Hochstetler, a Library Junior Fellow, talks about his work with these time-capsule discs in this question-and-anwer session.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Cataloging, Collections, Gazette, Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Preservation, Radio, World War II
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Angela Napili is a senior research librarian at the Library's Congressional Research Service. In this Q&A, she says she's had a charmed life, inluding getting out of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and settling in San Francisco. An adventurous sort, she's an excellent photographer and National Park Service volunteer, often working at the Washington Monument. Ask her about her award-winning squirrel photo!
Posted in: Asian American, Congressional Research Service, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Jessica Fries-Gaither, an elementary school science teacher from Columbus, Ohio, is serving as an Albert Einstein distinguished educator fellow at the Library this year. We caught up with her to ask her about her work and some favorite projects.
Posted in: Education, Gazette, LCM, Library Work and Employees, My Job, Researcher Stories, Science
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
D’Andrea Hamn started working at the library 49 years ago and currently works in the acquisitions program specialist in the U.S. Copyright Office. In this My Job interview, she talks about her work over nearly five decades.
Posted in: Copyright, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Lara Szypszak is a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division. In this Q & A, she explains her work at the Library, her international travels and good times assisting Gershwin Prize recipients and National Book Festival authors while they're at Library events.
Posted in: Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job