Being that this is national library week, it is only fitting that the Library of Congress recently came out with a new website called MyLOC.gov. On this website, they have a video that explains to you, the viewer, what they’re all about and why the library is for you and as they remind us [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Library of Congress’
April 10, 2008
Library of Congress & Baseball
Now that baseball season has started again , I thought it worth while to point to the Library of Congress’ Historic Baseball Resources webpage. This page contains links to old baseball cards – the ones that used to be distributed in cigarette packages; information on the song “Take me out to the ballgame” which [...]
February 7, 2008
Library of Congress Photos on Flikr
Recently, the Library of Congress put a bunch of photos up on the photo-sharing site Flikr. Their purpose was to “give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.” [...]
September 13, 2007
Historical Newspapers
Something that I came across a while ago and have been meaning to get to in this blog is a (relatively) new offering on the web by the Library of Congress. On the “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers” website, you can search through ~310,000 digitized newspaper pages from 1900-1910. What’s really cool about [...]
