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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (December 18-20, 2014)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is  guest post by Jenny Paxson, Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus and the Packard Campus Theater programmer for December. We finish 2014 with a quartet of wonderful holiday films, and as a special added attraction, here’s the trailer for Remember the Night, which will close out the calendar Saturday at 7:30 pm. …

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Gargantuan Graphophone Records

Posted by: Bryan Cornell

At some point time around the year 2008 the last physical audio format, the cd, seems to have nearly winked out of existence. Its replacement? An army of wispy, intangible files including mp3, .aiff, wave, ogg vorbis, flac and many others.  Of course, many of these formats produce very high-quality audio, and I can now pack a collection of …

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Who We Are: Kelly Chisholm, Moving Image Processing Technician

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is a guest post by Kelly Chisholm. Hello! When I tell people I work with the Library’s film and video collections, they’re often curious about what my job as a Processing Technician entails and how I trained for it, so I thought I would try to answer both those questions here. I discovered …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (December 11-13, 2014)

Posted by: Mike Mashon

The following is  guest post by Jenny Paxson, Administrative Assistant at the Packard Campus and the Packard Campus Theater programmer for December. Thursday, December 11 (7:30 p.m.) The Castle (Miramax, 1997) This charming Australian comedy was the biggest cinematic hit in 1997 in its native land. After it played at the Sundance Film Festival, Roger …

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It’s scandalous! It’s immoral! It’s the “Turkey Trot”!

Posted by: Karen Fishman

This blog post was co-written with Jan McKee, Reference Librarian, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress. This year, after Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family, why not burn off some of those calories and thwart those tryptophans by dancing the Turkey Trot instead of sleeping on the living room sofa?  This vigorous dance was developed …

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The Accidental Rock Star

Posted by: Bryan Cornell

Last night the Library of Congress honored veteran songwriter and performer Billy Joel with its coveted Gershwin Prize for  Popular Song. The Library of Congress awards the prize annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with George and Ira Gershwin. It’s not entirely coincidental that the Library has also just uploaded a revealing interview with Joel …