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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
I am the head of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library. The Center is home to the U.S. Poet Laureate, the only federally-funded position for a literary artist in the country and the most visible position for a poet by far.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
I love the Library's collections of prints and photographs. I also love the "Selected Library of Congress Sources for Texas!" However, I would like to share some analog primary sources that we have digitally preserved: the bilingual gazettes (1863), Spanish and French, of the Second Mexican Empire.
Posted in: Government and Law, Hispanic American History, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
I am a folklorist in the American Folklife Center and I catalog and describe unpublished ethnographic collections from our Archive, so they can be found and explored by users.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
One of the advantages the Library of Congress offers is the range and diversity of its collection. Thus, the inherent value of a manuscript collection is enhanced by collections of a comparable nature in the Manuscript Division and other custodial divisions.
Posted in: African American History, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
Kate Stewart wants to encourage teachers to incorporate oral histories and interviews to teach recent history. It may be easier to analyze photographs and text, but I think listening to someone tell a personal story can be so much more memorable and engaging.
Posted in: African American History, Culture and Folklife, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
I am a senior archives specialist in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. My title usually draws blank stares from people, so I follow it quickly with the analogy that an archivist is like an archeologist who works with paper. That declaration gets nods of understanding and interest.
Posted in: African American History, Interviews with Experts, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
My official title is reference and research specialist for the Library's Science Reference Section in the Science, Technology and Business Division. Essentially I am a librarian who spends a lot of time online, but also gets to play with books.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
While I'm officially the Head of the Science Reference Section, I spend most of my time working with the collections, answering reference requests and creating webcasts, book displays, and bibliographies. I work with text-books, journals, diaries, cookbooks, reminiscences, biographies, magazines, pictures, electronic sources, manuscript materials, microforms, artifacts--everything you might expect to find in a Library. I especially like the 18th and 19th century materials and learning more about the daily lives of our forefathers--their foraging techniques, what they ate, how they cooked and cleaned, what they wore, and how they spent their time.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Science Technology and Math, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
In addition to my regular job, I volunteer to work with K-12 students who come to visit our division. During my presentation, I show the students the differences between their neighborhood or school library and a large map research library like the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Geography and Maps, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Interviews with Experts