Reflecting on a new year
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
January's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: At the Museum
Archive: January 2021 (4 Posts)
Introducing The Black, Indigenous and Minority Americans Digital Futures Program
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following is a repost from the blog Of the People. The author is Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy. You may have seen the news about the Library’s exciting new program Of the People, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will allow us to do more to connect our collections, staff, and services to …
Posted in: Digital Content
The Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Goes Agile
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Grace Thomas, Senior Digital Collections Specialist on the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. You can read more about the Web Archiving Team right here on the Signal. In the web archiving community, we build the plane and fly it simultaneously. While this pattern is present in most disciplines, web …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Exploring the Past with Sanborn Maps and Newspaper Navigator
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Walk the streets of any U.S. city today, and you might come across historic markers or masonry etchings indicating what the buildings used to be. It is always fascinating to learn what our neighborhoods, cities, and towns used to be —factories turned residences, street names changed, the places and spaces our predecessors lived, ate, and …
Posted in: Digital Content