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Library of Congress and Smithsonian Launch Civil Rights History Project Website
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From LC: The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) have launched The Civil Rights History Project at www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/. The portal presents the results of a nationwide inventory of oral-history interviews with participants in the civil rights movement. The research, […]
Preservation: "Library of Congress Announces Agreement with Small Press Expo For Acquisition of Independent Comics and Cartoon Art"
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, News, Preservation, Profiles
|From LC: The Library of Congress [recently] announced an agreement with Small Press Expo that will allow the Library to acquire independent comics and cartoon-art forms—material that it does not receive through copyright deposit. The Small Press Expo (SPX) is an annual festival in Bethesda, Md., for alternative comic creators. The festival brings together more […]
Direct: App Store to Download (Free) Note: NLA Tells Us They’re Looking At “Branching Out Even Further” With Apps for Other Platforms From the App Store Description: The National Library of Australia catalogue is now mobile! It’s a fast and easy way to search the collection and to find resources whenever and wherever you are. […]
Picture This: A New Blog From the Print and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress Debuts
|From the Debut Post on the Picture This Blog: The Picture This blog invites you to share our love of pictures and the stories they can tell. You’ll see special images that caught our eye and also learn about entire collections as we explore the vast holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division at the […]
Conference Paper: "Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|This paper will be presented at on August 16, 2011, at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan. Title: “Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web” (28 pages; PDF) Authors: Barbara Tillett, Libby Dechman, and Loche McLean (Library of […]
Reminder: C-SPAN's Library of Congress Documentary Debuts on Monday, Watch Several Clips Now
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|UPDATE: The complete Library of Congress documentary including a text transcript is now available in the C-SPAN Video Library. Here’s a direct link to the program. The program will premiere at 8pm ET on July 18, 2011 on C-SPAN. The documentary runs 90 minutes and we re-air at 11pm ET/8pm ET. The program will likely […]
From a LOC Announcement: A collaboration to facilitate the archiving and publication of a new documentary photography project was announced today by the Library of Congress and the photography group known as Facing Change: Documenting America. Facing Change was founded in 2009 by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers Anthony Suau and Lucian Perkins and is a contemporary […]
Henry Kissinger Will Donate His Papers to Yale
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From the AP: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped steer Vietnam war policy, will donate his collection of some one million documents and objects covering his life as a diplomat, teacher and private citizen to Yale University. Yale President Richard Levin said Wednesday the collection will enhance Yale’s archives of 20th century […]
News About LC's Twitter Archive: Gnip is Working With LC and Twitter to Provide Access to Tweets
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation, Video Recordings
|For the first time in over a year we have a new piece of information about the planned LC/Twitter archive. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide any dates about a possible launch, info about what’s needed to be a “qualified researcher”, and if the archive be accessible outside of an LC building. However, at this point we’re […]
A busy week for the Chronicling America team at LC. First, we learned of the database continuing to expand. CA is now home to 3.7 million digitized and indexed newspaper pages. Today’s News? A New UI and New Features. The big changes discussed below provide a big improvement vs. what was available prior to the […]