Flickr: if it’s good enough for the Library of Congress it’s good enough for your library TerryBallard, inGoogle This!, 2012 Case study: the Lester Public Library in Two Rivers, Wisconsin Even though theLibrary of Congress, NYPL and other top institutions use Flickr to good advantage, th...
the Library of Congress took notice and began archiving all public tweets. From the start, Library officials knew this would be an ambitious undertaking. But 12 years on, it’s become too much to manage.
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If you’ve often passed the time perusing theTwitterarchives of theLibrary of Congress, you’re going to need to find a new hobby. Not because the said archive is at all uninteresting (it does, after all, contain literally every single tweet to every be sent), but rather because itwon...
Heir to Abyssinian throne Bain News Service,, publisher. U.S.S. PITTSBURG [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Glass negatives. ...
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I don’t like Library of Congress (LC) classification because it’s arcane and confusing, so the Dewical Decimal system (DDC) was the default choice. But what to use it for? You can use it for everything, but I decided right away not to use it on fiction items, instead opting for...
(header photo: library_of_congress onflickr) News and announcements TheNorthwestern University Transportation Libraryhas digitized a collection of photographs from theconstruction of the Panama Canal.“The photos show both construction sites of the canal and more leisurely photos of towns and people in...
recent interest sparked by her appearances at last year’s Newport Folk Festival and the Gorge Amphitheatre engineered by Brandi Carlile, the subsequent celebration surrounding her Library of Congress Gershwin Award for Popular Music, or just a return of zeitgeist, there seems no real need to ...
The veteran photographer specializes in documenting architecture, but began in February 2010 on a journey to photograph every state in America, and to also donate those images, copyright free, to the Library of Congress. The first state, Alabama,...