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Archive: November 2019 (6 Posts)

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Introducing the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the LC Labs team will pilot ways to combine cutting edge technology and the collections of the largest library in the world, to support creative new uses of collections. This project will explore service models to support researchers accessing Library of Congress collections in the cloud, with findings shared throughout the 2 year project.

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In the Library’s Web Archives: 1,000 U.S. Government PowerPoint Slide Decks

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The Digital Content Management section has been working to extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant Web Archives holdings. The outcome of the project is a series of web archive file datasets, each containing 1,000 files of related media types selected from .gov domains. You can read more about this series …

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What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images?

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images scanned from the Library of Congress U.S. Telephone Directory Collection. These images originate from thousands of reels of black and white microfilm held in the Main Reading Room – now available on the Library’s website. The process for getting …