In this guest post, Kathleen O’Neill, Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division, announces the launch of a new workstation in the Library’s Manuscript Division reading room.
Author: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs Letter: September 2022
LC Labs Letter September issue.
Q&A with Laurie Allen, new Chief of LC Labs
Interview with Laurie Allen, recently announced Chief of LC Labs.
LC Labs is Celebrating Five Years!
LC Labs turns 5!
Introducing the congress.gov API
The Library has introduced the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
LC Labs Letter: Recap of 2022 Summer Fellow Projects
LC Labs Letter for August 2022.
New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling America online collection.
LC Labs Letter: Data and Libraries
The LC Labs team’s June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
In conversation: LC Labs staff and Einstein Educator Fellow discuss library data, STEM education, and primary source analysis
The following blog post is a conversation between Eileen J. Manchester of LC Labs and Peter DeCraene, the 2020-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Eileen and Peter reflect on how messy, yet rewarding, it is to think of library collections as data in a classroom educational setting.
Datasets as Primary Sources, Part II
Part 2 of an ongoing occasional series about using datasets as primary sources.