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- Regulating the Rag and Bone Man (2017) https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/regulating-the-rag-and-bone-man/ 32 comments
- The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2023/09/27/the-middle-state-famous-owners-of-a-controversial-text/ 3 comments
- Bloomsday: The library’s one-of-a-kind copy of “Ulysses” https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/06/bloomsday-the-librarys-one-of-a-kind-copy-of-ulysses/ 49 comments
- So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (2016) https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2016/06/so-youve-been-challenged-to-a-duel-what-are-the-rules/ 134 comments
- Library of Congress Digitization Strategy: 2023-2027 https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/02/library-of-congress-digitization-strategy-2023-2027/ 7 comments
- Is JPEG 2000 a preservation risk? (2013) https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/01/is-jpeg-2000-a-preservation-risk/ 83 comments
- The history of the elimination of leaded gasoline https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/04/the-history-of-the-elimination-of-leaded-gasoline/ 119 comments
- All hyped up for Hypercard: further adventures with an Apple legacy format https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/07/all-hyped-up-for-hypercard-further-adventures-with-an-apple-legacy-format/ 62 comments
- Fun with File Formats https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/12/fun-with-file-formats/ 25 comments
- The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/10/the-city-which-would-not-be-cowed-the-great-chicago-fire-of-1871/ 14 comments
- Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/10/hazel-scott-the-gorgeous-face-of-jazz-at-the-mid-century/ 5 comments
- The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2018/10/lets-go-explore-transcribe-and-tag-at-crowd-loc-gov/ 9 comments
- Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress-2/ 42 comments
- Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start? http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2016/05/how-to-begin-a-personal-archiving-project/ 20 comments
- The Geographical Oddity of Null Island https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2016/04/the-geographical-oddity-of-null-island/ 14 comments
- How Many U.S. Federal Laws Are There? (2013) http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-question-how-many-federal-laws-are-there/ 9 comments
- Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/dukes-legacy-video-game-source-disc-preservation-at-the-library-of-congress/ 8 comments
- An 800-Year-Old (Tiny) Book of Hours https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/04/an-800-year-old-tiny-book-of-hours/ 2 comments books
- A Fascist Dystopia with Style on the Adriatic. https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/05/a-fascist-dystopia-with-style-on-the-adriatic/ 3 comments europe
- Help the Library of Congress Create Video Games that Improve Public Knowledge of Civics https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/06/help-the-library-of-congress-create-video-games-that-improve-public-knowledge-of-civics/ 51 comments programming
- Amelia Earhart, in History’s Hands: Library of Congress blog post that tells Amelia Earhart's story through an analysis of the pilot's hands https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/10/amelia-earhart-in-historys-hands/ 35 comments history
- Connecting the Dots with Baseball and Library of Congress Online Resources https://blogs.loc.gov/ofthepeople/2022/01/connecting-the-dots-with-baseball-and-library-online-resources/?loclr=blogsig 2 comments baseball
- Fun with File Formats https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/12/fun-with-file-formats/ 2 comments programming
- Japanese Pilot’s Map of Pearl Harbor Attack Now at Library https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/03/japanese-pilots-map-of-pearl-harbor-attack-now-at-library/ 195 comments history
- Library of Congress Blog: The Nazi War Atlas of Operation Barbarossa https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/12/the-nazi-war-atlas-of-operation-barbarossa/ 4 comments history
- How did Washington, D.C. fans experience the World Series in 1924, 1925 & 1933? Check out these photos. https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2019/10/world-series-excitement-in-the-nations-capital/ 32 comments baseball
- Library of Congress Crowdsourcing the Clara Barton Diaries https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/04/crowdsourcing-the-clara-barton-diaries-let-miss-barton-come-to-your-aid/ 3 comments books
- Missing baseball? The Library of Congress digitized Branch Rickey's scouting reports for you to review. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/04/new-online-branch-rickey-scouting-reports/ 3 comments baseball
- In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, a look at the role baseball played in the lives of Mexican American laborers in early 20th c. California https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/10/hispanic-heritage-month-mexican-americans-and-baseball/ 8 comments baseball
- [History] Baseball: The Heart of the Matter - Library of Congress blog https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/03/baseballs-the-heart-of-the-matter/?loclr=ealocb 4 comments baseball
- Starting January 1st, all "non-significant" Tweets Will NOT Be Archived https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress-2/ 6 comments technology
- Listen to the earliest recording of a joke made in the early 1890s. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/08/national-tell-a-joke-day-listen-to-the-earliest-recording-of-one/ 4 comments history
- Happy Wright Brothers Day! On this day, 114 years ago, the Wright Brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/this-day-in-history-wright-brothers-take-flight/ 9 comments technology
- Guide to researching EU law http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/06/a-guide-to-researching-eu-law/?loclr=eaiclb 3 comments law
- Pic of the Week: Oath of Librarianship http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/09/pic-of-the-week-oath-of-librarianship/?loclr=ealocb 4 comments books
- 110 “Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation” copied out by George Washington when he was a child. http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/05/george-washington-living-the-rules-of-civility/ 3 comments history
- There is a hawk loose in the Library of Congress Reading Room. No, really. http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2011/01/watching-our-researchers-like-a-hawk/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed 9 comments reddit.com
- A hawk is flying around the Main Reading Room in the Library of Congress. http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2011/01/watching-our-researchers-like-a-hawk/ 4 comments reddit.com
- The U.S. Library of Congress has announced a deal with Twitter to archive all public tweets, dating back to Twitter's inception in March 2006. http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/ 19 comments technology
- "While it is flattering that the Library of Congress is used as a benchmark which others measure their data capacity, we are far “bigger” than many of them might think"... Like "3 and 5 petabytes of content per year" for *decades* big. http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2009/02/how-big-is-the-library-of-congress/ 4 comments reddit.com