LC Labs Letter: September 2022
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs Letter September issue.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Innovator in Residence, Labs Letter, Tools and Infrastructure
Category: Digital Content
Q&A with Laurie Allen, new Chief of LC Labs
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Interview with Laurie Allen, recently announced Chief of LC Labs.
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library
Introducing the congress.gov API
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The Library has introduced the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
Posted in: Digital Content
LC Labs Letter: Recap of 2022 Summer Fellow Projects
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs Letter for August 2022.
Posted in: Digital Content, Labs Letter
New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling America online collection.
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
LC Labs Letter: Data and Libraries
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The LC Labs team's June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Labs Letter
In conversation: LC Labs staff and Einstein Educator Fellow discuss library data, STEM education, and primary source analysis
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The following blog post is a conversation between Eileen J. Manchester of LC Labs and Peter DeCraene, the 2020-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Eileen and Peter reflect on how messy, yet rewarding, it is to think of library collections as data in a classroom educational setting.
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Datasets as Primary Sources, Part II
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Part 2 of an ongoing occasional series about using datasets as primary sources.
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships
Datasets as Primary Sources: An Archaeological Dig into Our Collective Brains, Part 1
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
In this guest post, Educator Fellow Peter DeCraene reflects on how teachers can make use of data sets in the classroom.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Digital Content, Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships