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"Thriller" added to National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress
GO Michael!
"Thriller" along with 24 other recordings have been added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Other additions include...
1. The first recording to traverse the Atlantic Ocean
2. works by Roy Orison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells, and Smokey Robinson and the miracles
3. The original cast recording of "My Fair Lady"
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News in the 1910's
This selected set of 1,500 photographs is from a large collection of almost 40,000 glass negatives. The entire collection spans 1900-1920 and richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, and political activities, with a special emphasis on life in New York City. This selected set of 1,500 photographs is from a large collection of almost 40,000 glass negatives. The entire collection spans 1900-1... more
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Flickr to host Library of Congress photos
The good news is the Library of Congress is putting 3,000 images up at Flickr. The bad news is they're relying on us to tag them all.
In a pilot project announced Wednesday, the government archive put the public-domain, copyright-free photos on the Library of Congress Flickr page. That's just a small fraction of 14 million photos and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, according to the archive's blog, but hey, it's a pilot project.
If you're like me, you recognize the value of tagged photos when you're looking for a particular shot but can't remember when or where you took it, or when you want to sift photos to zero in only those with something like "birthday" and "grandma." But also if you're like me, you probably tag your photos only intermittently.
So it's a safe bet that the Library of Congress photos won't immediately sport a huge range of highly descriptive tags. But I'm inclined to see the glass as well over half full: having the photos easily available is great, and I can't imagine the government would pay on its own to fund some dedicated tagging effort. The good news is the Library of Congress is putting 3,000 images up at Flickr. The bad news is they're relying on us to tag them all. ... more -
Flickr tag for the Library of Congress
Library of Congress is hoping that Flickr users will tag and describe some of their 14 million images.
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Library Of Congress missing 13 percent of collection
About one-sixth of the books, monographs and bound periodicals at the Library of Congress weren't where they were supposed to be because of flaws in the systems for shelving and retrieving materials, according to a survey to be made public at a congressional hearing today.
Officials at the library say they believe most of the missing materials are misplaced, not stolen or lost. About one-sixth of the books, monographs and bound periodicals at the Library of Congress weren't where they were supposed to be becau... more
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