We are delighted to introduce Victoria (Tori) Scheppele, a Library Technician in the Prints & Photographs Division who has joined us temporarily to work on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative. The CCHC initiative is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Centered in LC Labs, the project […]
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LC Labs Letter: December 2021
LC Labs’ newsletter for December 2021.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Strategy Published
The following is co-authored with Joe Puccio, the Library of Congress Collection Development Officer. Digital collections, and the work related to their acquisition, preservation and access, have become increasingly central to Library of Congress processes and our mission to serve Congress and the nation. For the last five years, in accordance with the Library of […]
Annotation as Aesthetic: A Closing Interview with Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan
2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan created Speculative Annotation, an experimental browser-based application that encourages students and teachers to have conversations with historic Library of Congress items through annotation and mark-making. McClellan is a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range […]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…derivative dataset!
This post describes a collaboration between LC Labs member Eileen J. Manchester and Peter DeCraene, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to answer the question: “what would it mean to treat a dataset as a primary source?”
Reflecting On a Year of Selected Datasets
Introduction The Selected Datasets Collection was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research. Since then, our initial offering of twenty datasets has grown to nearly 200 unique items, and we’ve continued to refine the technical workflows by which content is prepared and delivered to […]
LC Labs Letter October 2021
LC Labs’ monthly newsletter for October 2021.
Big News about Connecting Communities Digital Initiative!
September newsletter from LC Labs, highlighting opportunities with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.
Supporting the Acquisition of Openly-Available e-Serials from the Duplicate Materials Exchange Program: An Interview with Junior Fellow Alex Reese
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content […]
Exploring Openly-Licensed e-Serials from the Directory of Open Access Journals: An Interview with Junior Fellow Emmeline Kaser
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content […]