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Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
Happy New Year! There is something sort of refreshing to me about saying those words. I have always fully embraced the notion that a new calendar year, psychologically speaking, offers a particular moment to reset, recommit and reprioritize. Whether you call them New Year’s Resolutions or, as one of my dear friends refers to them, …
Posted in: Collections, Concerts, Congress, Exhibitions, LCM, Literacy, Maps, News, Science
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
The Library of Congress launched its first website in 1994. Since that time we have digitized and made available millions of items from our collections and added new features to help you take advantage of all that the Library offers. During the past three years, the Library’s web team has been transitioning these vast online …
Posted in: Collections, LC Web site, News, Technology
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
During one of my first visits to the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, one of the division chiefs there pointed out the 35 mm projector in the theater. He commented that the sound of 35 mm film being fed through a projector is an “endangered sound.” My furrowed brow and quizzical look …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, Music, News, Preservation