The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with an excerpt from the post, “Speaking through Images: Asian American Photographers and Printmakers at the Library of Congress.”
The following is an interview with Antonio Austin, who served as an Archives, History and Heritage Advanced virtual intern in the Prints & Photographs Division from February to April 2021, with a goal of recommending ways to bring historical material to a larger audience in innovative ways. Antonio is working on a PhD in history […]
An interview with Cheryl Ingraham, a Library of Congress program specialist who has joined us temporarily to help launch the Of the People initiative. Cheryl has helped us build and communicate about the new Connecting Communities Digital Initiative. I interviewed Cheryl about how her experience and interests support her work with Of the People to harness technological innovation to amplify the histories of racial and ethnic minorities and connect all Americans with the Library of Congress.
On April 10, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden spoke with Ivette Feliciano on the PBS Newshour about the “Of the People, Widening the Path” initiative, supported by a $15 million investment from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
On this blog, we plan to regularly feature the interns whose hard work positively impacts the Library. Today’s interview is with a participant in the Library of Congress Internship program (LOCI). Describe your background. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles (East LA), California. Being able to grow up in a community like […]
UPDATE 4/15/2021: These job postings have closed. Please check back for more opportunities! As part of the Mellon Foundation-funded initiative, Of the People: Widening the Path, the Library’s Internship and Fellowship Programs (IFP) office is able to expand several of its internship programs. The IFP team is seeking to fill two program specialist positions that […]
We feature Joan Baez for Women’s History Month and bring together parts of her story found in the Library’s digital collections.
Applications open today—March 26, 2021—for the Fall session of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship! This part-time, remote internship offers undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate and doctoral students insights into the Library of Congress collections—the world’s largest and most comprehensive repository of human knowledge. Interested in applying? Read below for a brief guide on […]
A few weeks ago, this blog published a post reflecting on previous cultural documentation work the American Folklife Center (AFC) conducted through our ‘field survey’ projects. I offered that post as a way to provide historical context for the Community Collections Fellowship program that AFC is launching within the Of the People initiative at the […]
Discovery in Digitized Collection explores collections whose titles don’t necessarily give clue to the diverse contents and stories of communities of color.