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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
This post is cross-posted from the Library blog Of the People: Widening the Path. We are delighted to introduce Marya McQuirter, the new program director for the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI). CCDI is a four-year program encouraging creative uses of the Library’s digital collections to center the histories, lives and experiences of Black, Indigenous …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Trevor Owens
If you have looked up an e-book in the Library of Congress catalog in the past year, you might have noticed that a range of catalog records for e-books now include links to something called Stacks. And even if you haven’t had the occasion to, I’ve provided a screenshot of one below – the catalog …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
LC Labs’ Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative explores pathways for the Library to deliver its digital collections at scale, using a cloud computing environment. You can read more in previous posts about the initiative. Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship …
Posted in: Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, digital humanities
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
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
We are so pleased to introduce Khadijah Camp, who has joined us temporarily from the Library Collections Service Group’s Employee Resources Management & Planning Team. She is working as an Innovation Specialist on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative. CCHC is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content