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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The Library of Congress has appointed Nicole Saylor as the new Chief of the Digital Innovation Lab, a position established to lead the Library’s innovation with digital collections and to support its digital transformation. The position, located in the Digital Strategy Directorate in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, is being created as the …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following post by Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy at the Library, was originally posted on the Library’s Of the People blog. I am SO THRILLED to share that we are now accepting applications for the Program Director of the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI), part of our Of the People: Widening the Path …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Marcus Nappier, one of my colleagues in the Digital Content Management Section. My hope with this interview, and the others that we publish here, help spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress in providing enduring access to digital …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Joe Puccio, Collection Development Officer at the Library of Congress. Tremendous progress has been made by the Library of Congress in acquiring born-digital content as part of a coordinated strategy presented in its 2017 Digital Collecting Plan and previously reported in the Signal. With that plan now in its fifth …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Open Access, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m thrilled to share that Abby Shelton has joined the Digital Content Management section as a new Digital Collections Specialist working as a community manager on the By the People Program. To that end, I’m also happy to share this interview as part of our occasional series where we learn more about the background, experience, and …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following is a guest post by the 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range of media including sculpture, performance, photography, and writing. Courtney’s Residency initiative “Speculative Annotation” will be an experimental browser-based application that …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Three years ago, I shared out some news about the newly created Digital Content Management Section. Our unit was just starting up and we had a lot in store for our future that I wanted to talk about on this blog. Coming up on the third anniversary of that post, presents an opportunity to reflect …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for March 2021.
Posted in: Digital Content