The Library of Congress has announced that it has digitized hundreds of hours of motion pictures that will be freely available on the newly launchedNational Screening Room website. Most of the content in the National Screening Room is in the public domain. Movies that the Library believes to be...
These selections are presented as part of the record of the past. They are historical documents which reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these movies, which may contain content offensive to users. ...
With a collection of more than 1.6 million items, the Library of Congress is the world's largest repository of moving images. But beyond storing and cataloging precious films from the earliest days of motion picture photography, the Library is now making hundreds of its digitized treasures more ...
Concordia code and the By the People transcriptions are released into the public domain. Anyone is free to use or reuse the data.More info on our licensing page. As of May 2022 the Library of Congress Concordia development team has moved issues out of Github to an internal system due to ...
The Library of Congress Selected Digitized Books collection contains 135,500+ English public domain books with 47.6 billion tokens.storytracer mentioned this issue May 15, 2024 Library of Congress public domain books (loc_books) #73 Open Author storytracer commented May 15, 2024 I have ...
I am not as up on or enthusiastic about Ed’s Semantic-Web intentions, but the open-data implications are clear: the Library of Congress just took down public data. I didn’t think things could get much worse after therecent OCLC moves, but this is worse. The Library of Congress is th...
We have each been professional academic librarians for more than a decade. We have often felt like we were running on a hamster wheel, rarely pausing to catch our breath as we moved from one project to the next, or through the processes of tenure and promotion. Before long, we had achie...
OCLC and the Library of Congress had a big project called QuestionPoint to enlist libraries around the world to offer 24/7 service. It carried its own knowlegebase where librarians would catalog all of the questions they answered to help automate answering the huge volume of questions expected. ...
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...
(in which Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson were also killed). "La Bamba" and the life of Valens would nonetheless serve as the inspiration of the popular 1987 movie, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, which wasinducted into the Library of Con...