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Collage illustration by Vivian Li depicting an image of a black and white cityscape with three color images superimposed: a cowboy riding a horse, a pyramid shaped monument, and an enormous red sculpture.

Announcing Anywhere Adventures Locations

Posted by: Isabel Brador

The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois, who currently lives in Seattle. This is the second blog post in a series following Vivian’s project, Anywhere Adventures. Check out the LC Labs  Anywhere Adventures experiment page to learn more about the …

Screenshot of the Newspaper Navigator homepage.

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) …