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Cooking Up a Solution to Link Rot
This post is cross posted on the blog of the Law Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis, which is an excellent source of information on current legal trends and materials from the Library’s collections...
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Extra Extra! Chronicling America Posts its 10 Millionth Historic Newspaper Page
Talk about newsworthy! Chronicling America, an online searchable database of historic U.S. newspapers, has posted its 10 millionth page today. Way back in 2013, Chronicling America boasted 6 million...
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The Veterans History Project Marks 15 Years of Service
Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded hilltop, Birmingham, Alabama. Digital photograph by Carol Highsmith, May 19, 2010. LC call number LC-DIG-highsm- 07604. “The...
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Acquiring at Digital Scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me Collection
This post was originally published on the Folklife Today blog, which features folklife topics, highlighting the collections of the Library of Congress, especially the American Folklife Center and the...
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The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015 on The Signal
Mummers Parade on New Year’s day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Jan 1, 2011. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. It’s the end of...
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APIs: How Machines Share and Expose Digital Collections
By DLR German Aerospace Center (Zwei Roboterfreunde / Two robot friends) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.Kim Milai, a retired school teacher, was searching on ancestry.com for information about her...
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ODF: The Open Document Format
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager at the Library of Congress. During December 2015, the Library’s Format Sustainability website added...
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Keeping Our Tools Sharp: Approaching the Annual Review of the Library of...
The following post is by Ted Westervelt, head of acquisitions and cataloging for U.S. Serials in the Arts, Humanities & Sciences section at the Library of Congress. Since first launching its...
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Co-Hosting a Datathon at the Library of Congress
Archives Unleashed teams at wrap-up, day one. Photo by Jaime Mears. On June 14 and 15, the Library of Congress hosted Archives Unleashed 2.0, a web archive “datathon” (otherwise known as a “hackathon,”...
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User Experience (UX) Design in Libraries: An Interview with Natalie Buda Smith
Natalie Buda Smith is the User Experience (UX) Team supervisor at the Library of Congress, and most recently worked with NDI to design the beautiful graphic for our Collections as Data conference....
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