The following is a guest post from Lillian Williams, 2024 Junior Fellow in the Preservation Services Division. Before I came to the Library of Congress, I excitedly told many people about my upcoming internship and the Unfurling the Reel Deal: A Journey Through Microfilm History project. I got the same two questions each time: …
Read along to learn about how Preservation Specialist Kate Morrison-Danzis worked to preserve photos, pamphlets, notebooks, and other archival materials to prepare them for digitization.
In 2022, a software company operating a library inventory management system went out of business, leaving several large libraries in the lurch. Over the last couple years, the Library of Congress, along with other libraries in the ReCAP Consortium got together to create FETCH, a new inventory management system.