The monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team for August.
Category: Inside the Library
Sparking the Datamagination: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part II
This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind.
LC Labs Letter: July 2021
The July newsletter from the LC Labs team.
LC Labs Letter: December 2020
December’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
That’s a wrap! 2020 Staff Innovator detail comes to a close
A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!
LC Labs Letter: October 2020
October’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Analyzing the Born-Digital Archive
Kathleen O’Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archivist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division’s born-digital holdings.
LC Labs Letter: September 2020
September’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Newspaper Navigator Search Application Now Live!
On September 15, 2020, the Library of Congress announced the release of Newspaper Navigator, an experimental web application which makes 1.5 million photographs from the dataset from Chronicling America available to the public to explore for the first time. Read more about the design and features of the project below or jump straight to the newly launched application at https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search !
LC Labs Letter: August 2020
August’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.