Rob Williams first used the Library’s digital newspaper collections more than a decade ago as a high-school teacher of U.S. history in Powhatan County, Virginia, near Richmond. Today, he’s a recording artist—he released his third album, “An Hour Before Daylight,” in October. But he still draws inspiration from the same online resources that captivated his history students.
I'm delighted to be back at the Library in a new incarnation as a librarian-educator. I'm excited to be able to bring all that professional experience to bear in my current charge, which is to engage audiences in creating and sharing knowledge, inspire a love of reading and research, and inform the public about the treasures here.
I am a senior exhibition director in the Library's Interpretive Programs Office, which is the office charged with developing and producing exhibitions onsite and online that show the public what the nation's library holds and preserves.
I manage the Library's Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program, which brings undergraduate and graduate students to work on an array of projects across the Library for 10 weeks. I am also involved in the Library’s social media initiative as the manager of the Twitter page for the World Digital Library. WDL is an international initiative that partners with institutions worldwide to provide free access to digitized historical and cultural treasures from around the world. (We also tweet in seven languages!)
I also work in the Library of Congress Young Readers Center (YRC) on a part-time basis. We welcome children and families who are visiting the Library, as well as groups of K-12 students, and assist them in using our diverse collection of nearly 7,000 books for young people. I assist in coordinating special events for kids, including children’s author talks, many of which are now live streamed and accessible to students anywhere.
As one of the historians in the Manuscript Division, one of Sahr Conway-Lanz's primary responsibilities is collecting archival materials that document the foreign policy and military history of the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
I am the Director of the Veterans History Project, part of the American Folklife Center, at the Library of Congress. VHP's mission is to gather the oral histories of veterans and ensure they are accessible so current researchers and future generations understand what they saw, did and felt during their selfless service to our nation.
As a reference librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room my basic functions are to answer questions about and provide access to the Library's collection of serials (newspapers and periodicals) and government documents.
