The Library of Congress today announced the acquisition of the archives of Bob Adelman, one of the best-known photographers of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The collection, containing 575,000 high-quality images, was given to the Library as a …
Press Contact: John Sayers, Office of Communications (202) 707-9216 Public Contact: Lee Ann Potter, Educational Outreach (202) 707-8735 Website: Teaching Resources at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress is seeking applications from current …
Paulette Marie Hasier has been appointed chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. Hasier has nearly 20 years of library and geospatial information program management experience, most recently as branch chief of the U. S. National …
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced that Jane Sánchez, the chief of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Library of Congress, has been named Law Librarian of Congress, effective Feb. 5. Sánchez, who holds a Juris Doctor degree in addition …
Award-winning author and literacy advocate Stephen King helped the Library of Congress today launch its call for nominations for the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. The annual awards support organizations working to promote literacy, both in the …
Four distinguished scholars—David Bordwell, Timothy Breen, Jose Casanova and Wayne Wiegand—began residencies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress on Jan. 9. They will conduct research at the Library for four months. David Bordwell, the …
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, today released BARD Express, a Windows-based software program that will aid in the use of the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) …
A new selection of 28 posters, prints, drawings and photographs is now on display in the ongoing Library of Congress exhibition “World War I: American Artists View the Great War.” The exhibition opened in May 2016 and is on view through Saturday, Aug. 19, …
The 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Juan Felipe Herrera, has selected poet Ray Gonzalez for the 2017 Witter Bynner Fellowship. Herrera will introduce a program celebrating Gonzalez at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, in …
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 motion pictures that have been inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance. This year’s …
The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its 2017 Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program— a 10-week paid fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students. The 2017 class of Junior Fellows will work full-time with Library specialists and curators …
To honor the innovative ways in which federal libraries, librarians and library technicians fulfill the information demands of government, businesses, researchers, scholarly communities and the American public, the Federal Library and Information Network ( …
The Library of Congress today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Digital Public Library of America to become a “content hub partner” and will ultimately share a significant portion of its rich digital resources with DPLA’s database of …
Press contact: Gayle Osterberg (202) 707-0020 Press contact: Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456 Smokey Robinson Honored as the King of Song at Star-Studded Gershwin Prize Tribute PBS to Broadcast All-Star Concert on Feb. 10 The two-day celebration of Smokey …
Contact: Audrey Fischer, Library of Congress (202) 707-0022 Contact: Matthew Young, Oak Knoll Press, [email protected] Italian Art of Papermaking Is Subject of New Library Publication When the Arab art of papermaking by hand came to the Italian peninsula …
Press contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 Public contact: Rob Casper (202) 707-5394 Library Seeks Nominations for Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Poetry Prize The Library of Congress is accepting nominations from publishers for the Rebekah Johnson …
Press contact: Gayle Osterberg (202) 707-0020 New Director Appointed to Lead Veterans History Project Karen D. Lloyd has been appointed director of the Veterans History Project (VHP), a program of the American Folklife Center. Lloyd has served as acting …
Press contact: Donna Urschel, Library of Congress (202) 707-1639 Public contact: Robert Arzola, National Park Service (202) 354-2170 Library of Congress Announces Winner of 2016 Holland Prize Prize for Drawings of Historic Buildings, Structures and …
Press contact: Gayle Osterberg (202) 707-0020, [email protected] Librarian of Congress Makes Senior-Level Appointments Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Maria Pallante as senior advisor for digital strategy and Karyn …
Contact: Jennifer Gavin (202) 707-1940 Library of Congress, Britain’s Royal Library, King’s College to Collaborate on Papers of King George III The Library of Congress, the Royal Collection Trust and King’s College London today signed a memorandum of …
