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Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator!

Posted by: Isabel Brador

The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the application has received over 174,000 visitors representing tens of thousands of research experiences. Ben’s project was the first in-house machine learning application developed …

Black and white photograph depicting a woman in a long dress crouching by a wall of card catalog file cabinets in the Library's Main Reading Room. She is pulling open a drawer from one of the cabinets.

Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci

Posted by: Isabel Brador

Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine learning (ML) …