Tomorrow, September 27, 2016, NDI is hosting our Collections as Data symposium, which will be free and open to the public. We’re really excited about the speakers we have lined up for the day, and hope you can join is in person or through the live-streamed video.
In preparation for the event, our colleagues in Library Services put together a wonderful collection of resources to help orient researchers using Library of Congress collections as data:
Using Collections as Data?
Research Guidance Is Available!
- Ask A Librarian: https://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-contactus.html
- Research and Reference Services: https://www.loc.gov/rr/
- Catalogs for physical items as well as digitized: https://catalog.loc.gov/
- Databases and Electronic Resources: http://eresources.loc.gov/. Find an article, ebook, open content: http://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=01LOC
- New Online Collection notices: http://blogs.loc.gov
Digitized Collections and Items from Library of Congress
Torch of Learning. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2007. https://lccn.loc.gov/2007687186
- All collections online: https://www.loc.gov/collections/
- By subject: https://www.loc.gov/collections/index/subject/
- All items available online: https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q
- By format:
- Archived Web sites: https://www.loc.gov/websites/
- Audio Recordings: https://www.loc.gov/audio/collections/
- Books, via
- Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/library_of_congress (Also in HathiTrust and Digital Public Library of America)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/contributor/LC#/titles
- Film and Video: https://www.loc.gov/film-and-videos/collections/
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting: http://americanarchive.org/
- Manuscripts / Mixed Materials: https://www.loc.gov/manuscripts/collections/
- Maps: https://www.loc.gov/maps/collections/
- Newspapers, including Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/collections/
- Performing Arts / Music: https://www.loc.gov/notated-music/collections/
- Personal Narratives (Veterans Histories): https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=+&fa=original-format%3Apersonal+narrative
- Photographs, Prints, Drawings: https://www.loc.gov/photos/collections/