Our previous blog A Cool Collective Success! Preserving Collections Offsite presented the general details about the Library of Congress offsite storage facility at Fort Meade, MD. Check it out! In this blog, I share our excitement about the opening of our newest storage location at Fort Meade, Module #6, and the many actions taken in …
This is a guest post by Amy Olson, 2021 Junior Fellow in the Collections Management Division and recent graduate of Smith College in Women & Gender Studies. This summer, I have worked as a Junior Fellow with the Carvalho Monteiro Collection, a project to locate and digitally reunite a 30,000 book library within the Library’s …
This is a guest post from Christopher Spehr, inventory management technician of the Inventory Management and Document Fulfillment Section at the Collections Management Division. We are in an era of unmatched popularity for the bicycle. More and more people are riding bikes for transportation and for recreation every day. Washington D.C. has become a …
As the Library prepares to open another module inside its Collections Storage Facility in Maryland, I can’t help but reflect on how we got here, almost 20 years after the very first book was placed on a shelf of the first of many storage modules to come. The initial question that comes to mind is …