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Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
2026 Junior Fellow Natalie Nemes describes her work preserving tangible media items for future use and access and shares the history of the Library of Congress’s Tangible Media Project. Click through for more!
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
This post by Vincent Coltellino from the Library of Congress describes the 2026 Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections (DSA) meeting. The event is a venue for broad discussions of digital storage advancements, challenges, and solutions. On March 9-10, 2026, the Library hosted its 20th iteration of this collaborative (and now international) meeting.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Isabel Brador
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division and co-founder of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice. Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action …
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
We just celebrated seven years of 'By the People,' which invites virtual volunteers to transcribe historic texts, but did you know there is another crowdsourced transcription program for Library of Congress collections? Fix-It+ volunteers review and edit AI-generated transcripts for video and audio from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between GBH and The Library of Congress to preserve public television and radio. Learn how Fix-It+ enhances Library collections and how you can get involved in this interview with AAPB Archives Outreach Manager, Meghan Sorensen.
Posted in: Crowdsourcing, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Thalia Lightstone joined the Digital Content Processing Section last year as a 2025-26 Librarian-in-Residence. As she wraps up her time at the Library of Congress, Thalia shares about her experiences in Washington, D.C., reflects on lessons learned, and looks forward to the next steps in her career.
Posted in: Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer
This post is co-written by Abbie Grotke, Amanda Lehman, and Melissa Wertheimer of the Web Archiving Section to close our 25th-anniversary celebration year with some highlights of the program.
Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Posted by: Liz Tencer
This post details the exciting transformation of the Historical Media Publications Collection, a challenging digital collection of historical media industry magazines spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century. Expanding online presentation from dense bound volumes into searchable, issue-level resources, this collaborative project improved discoverability and usability of this collection and set a foundation for working with other serialized content though innovative new workflows and next-generation content management.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Guest Posts
Posted by: Liz Tencer
Hana Beckerle and Spencer Zidarich of the Library’s Collections Digitization Division (CDD) have been named as the Library of Congress co-leads for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group, effective July 1, 2025. In their new roles, they will provide leadership and direction for the working group, coordinate group meetings and projects, and represent the Library serving as liaisons on still image digitization issues.
Posted in: FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
In this blog post, 2025 Junior Fellow Kailyn Slater describes her work evaluating and expanding the Mass Communications Web Archive,
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Web Archiving