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Posted by: Isabel Brador
This post is the third in a series about the Library’s 2025 Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, and her project Anywhere Adventures. Following the selection of three communities, and a visit to the Library for research, the mobile experience has now officially launched! The 2025 Innovator in Residence project, Anywhere Adventures, has officially launched! The …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
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: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Thalia Lightstone recently joined the Digital Content Processing Section as Librarian in Residence on the Digital Services track. The Librarians-in-Residence program (LIR) supports and develops the next generation of librarians and information professionals by providing meaningful work experiences at the Library of Congress. In this interview, Thalia chats with Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez, Digital Collections Specialist, about …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Library of Congress has published the updated 2025-2026 Recommended Formats Statement. Updates have been made to preferred and accepted formats across multiple content categories, and are captured in a Change Log.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
On March 20, 2025, the DC Chapter of AI4LAM held its first meeting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, and Library of Congress staff were excited to take part in the event. AI4LAM is an international, collaborative community focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in, for, and …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content, Innovator in Residence
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. As someone who has lived in both rural Illinois and bustling Seattle, I was shocked that I could find really cool items about both locations on the …
Posted in: Digital Content, Innovator in Residence, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is the most recent in a series about file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, including several new format descriptions as well as community collaborations.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure