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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled rolled out its Spanish-languague site earlier this year to wide readership and media attention. Readers have jumped at the chance to find the newest reading materials in Spanish-language audio and Braille.
Posted in: Hispanic and Latino, National Library Service (NLS), New Online, Technology
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of Leonard Downie Jr., who started as an intern at The Washington Post in the 1960s concluded his career with a 17-year run as executive editor, are now available for researchers in the Library's Manuscript Division. They offer insight on the Post's inner workings on such stories as Watergate, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, the Valerie Plame affair, 9/11, the Unabomber and much more.
Posted in: Manuscripts, New Online, Newspapers, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The photographs of Bernard Gotfryd, now free for anyone to use from the Library's collections, are a remarkable resource of late 20th-century American pop-culture and political life, as he was a Newsweek staff photographer based in New York for three decades. He was also a Holocaust survivor who wrote about the experience with grace and courage.
Posted in: Holocaust, Jewish American History, New Online, Photos, World War II, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's original manuscript copy of George Gershwin's iconic "Rhapsody in Blue," with handwritten notations, is now on line.
Posted in: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Manuscripts, Music, New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as the U.S. Poet Laureate, will serve a third term in the office, the Librarian of Congress announced today.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Geography and Maps Division, New Online, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The William Howard Taft papers are the largest of the Manuscript Division’s 23 presidential collections, comprising approximately 676,000 documents covering his personal life and public career. Among them lies the heartbreaking tale of the death of Maj. Archie Butt, his beloved friend and aide, in the sinking of the Titanic.
Posted in: Manuscripts, New Online, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library invites you to contribute photographic and graphic art images to the Flickr group called “COVID-19 American Experiences.” Library curators will review submissions and select images to add to the group and to preserve in our permanent collections.
Posted in: COVID-19, Influeza/Covid-19, New Online, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library launches a new podcast, "America Works," with interviews of workers across the nation talking about their jobs and their lives.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, New Online, Podcasts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Newly colorized photographs from the 1963 March on Washington show the historic day in a new light.
Posted in: African American History, New Online, Photos, Researcher Stories, Today in History, Washington DC