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Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This guest post is an interview with Lisa Massengale, Head of the Science Reference Section, with contributions by the Web Archive’s creator Jennifer Harbster, a Science Reference and Research Specialist for the Science, Technology and Business Division from Oct. 2001- Dec. 2015. Along with her reference duties for the Library’s Science Reference Service, she created …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Jaime Mears
This is a guest blog post by Jeffrey Shen, a high-school Innovation Intern with LC Labs. Over the course of my three month internship with the LC Labs team, I developed a website/interactive data visualization which allows users to explore the late 1800s through political cartoons contained in the Cartoon Drawings collection. The main feature of …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Aly DesRochers
This is a guest post by Grace Thomas, a Digital Collections Specialist for the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. The Library of Congress Digital Content Management Section is excited to announce the release of 4,240 new web archives across 43 event and thematic collections on loc.gov, our largest single release of web archives to …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Posted by: Jaime Mears
The following is a guest post from Library of Congress Labs Innovation Intern, Aditya Jain. While exploring the possibilities of digital collections, Aditya created @newspaperbot. Below he shares his process, some of the challenges he encountered, along with the code. Due to updates related to Twitter’s API, this bot is no longer functional. The Chronicling …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure