Archive for the 'LOC' Category
Flickr brings tagging to vintage images
January 17th, 2008More from CNet.
See also.
NYT article on same.
The Library of Congress Teams Up With Flickr
January 17th, 2008Great news, a few days late (sorry, I’ve been stuck in researchland)
LOC Partners With Microsoft
January 10th, 2008Press Release - “The Library of Congress and Microsoft Corp. have signed a cooperative agreement that will change the way Library visitors experience history. The joint technology initiative will electronically deliver the Library’s immense collection of historical artifacts to patrons visiting its Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., and will allow unparalleled and immersive interactive [...]
Transgender veteran can sue Library of Congress
December 6th, 2007PrideSource - “A federal judge has rejected arguments to throw out an employment lawsuit brought by a decorated transgender veteran against the Library of Congress. The Nov. 28 ruling means that Diane Schroer’s case will move forward.”
Wrap It Up
December 6th, 2007Holiday gifts from the U.S. Government. Anything from the LOC gift shop makes a great present.
What Do the LOC and The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Have In Common?
November 8th, 2007AP - “The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum can’t locate or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan’s White House years, according to a published report.”
More on the Misplaced/Missing Materials At The LOC
November 5th, 2007Samuel J. Redman - “In fact, museums, libraries, and archives in the United States lose items in their collections on a regular basis.”
LOC Says WAPO Article Is Misleading
November 3rd, 2007Michael Lieberman - “The library claims that all the missing material is due simply to lack of inventory control and has nothing to do with theft or misappropriation.”
See the LOC post.
Happy B-Day LOC (Kinda)
November 1st, 2007Andrew Glass - “On this day in 1897, the Library of Congress building on First Street and Independence Avenue Northwest opened its doors to the public”
More On The Missing Material At The LOC
October 25th, 2007Tim Spalding - “It’s too bad asking users for help is harder in the physical than in the digital world—although I’m sure a lot of thingamabrarians would pay for the privilege of rolling a cart through the LC’s stacks…”
More On The Missing Material At The LOC
October 25th, 2007Book Patrol - “Part of the problem is that the public still uses paper call slips to request material and apparently many of the paper slips are as difficult to read as the Palm Beach paper ballots of the 2000 election.”
Read the survey results here.
So Much For The OPAC
October 23rd, 2007James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott - “About one-sixth of the books, monographs and bound periodicals at the Library of Congress weren’t where they were supposed to be because of flaws in the systems for shelving and retrieving materials, according to a survey to be made public at a congressional hearing today.”
No sense in having [...]
LOC Collecting Blogs
October 23rd, 2007Discourse.net received a note from the LOC.
How is this different from the great work of the Internet Archive?
LOC 2.0
September 17th, 2007Matt Raymond - “As promised, the Library of Congress today launched an enhanced and, if I might say so, much spiffier homepage at LOC.gov.”
Library of Congress gets gift of space
August 25th, 2007Variety - “Looking for original camera negatives of Frank Capra’s movies? Or maybe the screenplays? How about the first 45 rpm record ever made? Or maybe you’ve wanted to see every episode of “The Ed Sullivan Show,” or hear everything FDR said to Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
These and nearly 6 million other [...]
LOC Ask A Librarian Reviewed
August 16th, 2007AppScout - “Reference librarians are hard to come by, and their time is even more valuable, as anyone who’s ever written a thesis knows. Opening the door to the nation’s greatest library via the Web is a great idea.”
LOC Will Preserve More Stuff
August 6th, 2007Gamasutra - “Federal cultural institution The Library of Congress has announced its Preserving Creative America initiative, which targets preservation issues across a broad range of creative media, including movies, digital photography, and video games.”