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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
It’s the day after Christmas, ho-ho-ho-hum. The presents are already open, your elbows are getting rubbed a little raw with all these relatives around, and you’re sick of holiday cookies and candy and fruitcake. It’s all too tempting to jump on the old cellphone and see what snarky things are being said on social media, …
Posted in: Collections, Education, History, News, Newspapers, Preservation
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post from Lisa A. Taylor, liaison specialist with the Veterans History Project.) Millions of Americans across the country observe Veterans Day every Nov. 11. Armistice Day, now Veterans Day in the United States, is a commemoration dedicated to all veterans – a way to remember and thank them for their …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Preservation, Veterans History Project
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a feature on “Technology at the Library” from the September-October 2014 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) The Library of Congress holds the largest collection of flutes in the world, due in great measure to the generosity of Ohio physicist and amateur flutist Dayton …
Posted in: Collections, Music, Preservation, Technology
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post written by Yasmeen Khan, senior book conservator in the Conservation Division.) Conservation staff recently treated I recently examined a rare Persian manuscript in preparation for display in the Library of Congress exhibition, “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book.” The bound 103-leaf manuscript, dated 1583 and attributed to Central Asia, …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Preservation
Posted by: Erin Allen
In August, the Library of Congress was busy with exhibitions and expositions, opening “American Ballet Theatre: Touring the Globe for 75 Years” on Aug. 14 and hosting the 14th annual National Book Festival on Aug. 30. “At the company’s heart was ballet theater, a physical way of creating a new world onstage,” wrote Sarah Kaufman …
Posted in: Civil War, Collections, Events, Exhibitions, National Book Festival, News, Newspapers, Preservation, Technology, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress blogosphere helped beat the heat in June with a variety of engaging posts. Here are a sampling: In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog Connecting to Samuel Barber: A Young Musician’s Connection to a Musical Manuscript Music Division intern Rachael Sanguinetti talks about her appreciation of the composer’s works. Inside Adams: Science, …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Blogging, Collections, Congress Blogs, History, Law Library, Music, Photos, Poetry, Preservation, Social Media
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress welcomed Charles Wright as the institution’s 20th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2014-2015. Several major news outlets ran stories. “Our next poet laureate may end up speaking on behalf of the more private duties of the poet — contemplation, wisdom, searching — rather than public ones,” said reporter Craig Morgan …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Manuscripts, News, Newspapers, Poetry, Preservation, Video
Posted by: John Sayers
Today the Library adds another entry in its growing family of blogs. “Now See Hear!” gives our specialists in the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center a place to showcase some of the amazing treasures of our national audiovisual heritage. This is a place where Fugazi, Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Carole King, Buck Owens, …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Blogging, Collections, Curators, Film, LC Web site, Preservation, Social Media
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
The Library of Congress National Book Festival, as you’ve no doubt heard, is going to a new place in 2014 — the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. — on Saturday, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. As always, it will be free and open to the public, courtesy of the …
Posted in: Books, Congress, Education, Events, Film, LC Web site, Libraries, National Book Festival, Poetry, Preservation, Uncategorized, Washington DC