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Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2022. This post describes the remarkable history of the building's planning, construction and final grand opening in 1897.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, News, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Every institution has its institutions, and one of the Library’s is John Hessler, who will retire from the Geography and Map Division at the end of this month. He holds many titles, official and unofficial. One of the official ones is curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the …
Posted in: Curators, Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library Work and Employees, Native Americans, News, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
A film researcher at the Library of Congress has stumbled across the first motion picture to be copyrighted.
Posted in: Film, Library Work and Employees, National Film Registry, News, Performing Arts, Preservation, Rare Book and Special Collections, Researcher Stories, Technology