AUTHOR: Eileen J. Manchester

Eileen J. Manchester (she/her) was an innovation specialist on the LC Labs team at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2024. She worked on a wide range of initiatives regarding how the Library can creatively use technology to engage the public and provide access to its digital collections. As a former high school English teacher, she is especially interested in the Library’s engagement with young learners and K-12 educators. She has extensive research experience in early modern European literature and history and speaks German natively and French fluently. Eileen is an alumna of the Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, French, and German from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master’s in modern languages from the University of Oxford. While working, she is also pursuing a Ph.D. in education at George Mason University on a part-time basis.

Most Recent Posts

• Introducing the LC Labs Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework November 15th, 2023
• Check out: The Secret Life of GeoTIFFs August 21st, 2023
• LC Labs Letter: Summer Recap August 14th, 2023
• Discussing Library of Congress API documentation with Laura Wrubel and Patrick Rourke June 12th, 2023
• Help the Library of Congress Create Video Games that Improve Public Knowledge of Civics June 7th, 2023
• Library of Congress on the Web: from early innovation to well-documented public API June 5th, 2023
• Jackie Katz, 2022–23 Einstein Fellow, on science education and LC collections March 9th, 2023
• LC Labs Letter: December 2022 December 27th, 2022
• Now Playing: the CCHC Data Jam! December 8th, 2022