MORE 'LIBRARY-OF-CONGRESS' POSTS
Updated Research Guide from LC: Selected Internet Resources (Astronomy)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Resources
|The Selected Internet Resources (Astronomy) guide from the Science, Technology, and Business Division at the Library of Congress was updated earlier this month. It features Internet resources organized into the following categories: News & Events Our Sun & Solar System Planets & Planetary Systems Near-Earth Objects Extrasolar Systems Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Digital Libraries, […]
From The Peninsula: The Library of Congress is looking for possibilities to expand its collaboration with the Qatar Foundation and Central Library, following the successful partnership for the World Digital Library. “We will be expanding the collaboration between the Qatar Foundation Central Library and the Congress Library, which is very useful,” Dr James H Billington, […]
New from the Library of Congress: A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|From LC: The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” The Working Group called for a format that will “accommodate and […]
From a Washington City Paper Article: “The Library of Congress Turns the Light Out on Darkrooms” From the end of the Great Depression until this year, anyone could order a silver gelatin reproduction, printed from negatives, of any image in the Library of Congress’ collection, most recently for about $100 a print. Not any more: […]
From the Science Reference Section Science, Technology, and Business Division Library of Congress The guide includes: Definitions Brief History Books Additional Readings Online Stuff Access the Complete Guide
Kudos to all involved in this important and useful project. From the Chronicling America Web Site: Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site with more than 190,000 additional newspaper pages in various titles. The site now provides access to more than 4.1 million searchable newspaper pages from 581 newspaper titles, […]
From LC: To mark the sesquicentennial of the bloodiest conflict on American soil, the nation’s library, in collaboration with Little, Brown and Company, has published The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War by Margaret E. Wagner, with an introduction by historian Gary W. Gallagher. Drawn from rare source material in the unparalleled […]
Direct to Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, FY 2010 (88 pages; PDF) The Annual Reports of the Librarian of Congress highlight programs, projects and activities that occurred during the year at the Library, as well as details of its normal operations in Washington and around the world. See Also: All LC Annual Reports […]
From the Bibliography Web Site: The Library of Congress celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with this annotated bibliography of selected books in the Library of Congress collections authored by returned Peace Corps volunteers and a few former staff members. It contains a listing of 284 books published between 1964 and 2011. Each […]
From The Hill: He moves a little more slowly now, at 82, and gets more questions about whether he’s thinking of retiring, but that seems to be the last thing on James Billington’s mind as he begins his 25th year as the Librarian of Congress. “I have no plans at this point — sorry to […]