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Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Carly Boerrigter, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope with these interviews is to share out more about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support digital services of the Library of Congress. Along with that, …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our …
Posted in: New on loc.gov
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Lauren Algee, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope that interviews like this help to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along with that, I think it’s …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Interviews
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is provides updates to the Library of Congress's Recommended Formats Statement for 2023-2024.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is part of the blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Jaime Mears
The following is a guest post by the Library’s 2023 Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren (link to press release). As part of his residency, Warren will publish a toolkit to empower communities to create relational reconstructions of destroyed neighborhoods of color using 3D modeling methods and historic photographs. In the following post, Warren discusses …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Annette Nakshbendi, a Librarian-in-Residence in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. How might a Library of Congress digital resource spark classroom discussion that reaches beyond a primary source’s content and context? You may have used the Library’s digital collections to help history “come alive” for students. …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s blog post is an interview between Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz and Amaobi Otiji, both of the Digital Content Management Section (DCM) here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with DCM staff here. Andrew: Could you tell us a bit about what you do as a Digital Collections Technician in DCM? What do …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
An interview with two people who have worked extensively with LC APIs: Laura Wrubel, currently a digital library software developer at Stanford Libraries, and Patrick Rourke, software engineer at the Library of Congress who led the recent loc.gov/apis update.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Digital Content, Interviews