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Film, VideoEaston Brundage: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day The Year of Keyboard Accessibility project was created to raise awareness of the needs of individuals with disabilities. It is a project of The Digital Accessibility Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. This initiative especially focuses on the importance of the keyboard as an assistive technology for people with motor, visual, and cognitive disabilities. Easton Brundage collaborated with co-fellow Bailey White...- Contributor: Brundage, Easton
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoBailey White: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day The Year of Keyboard Accessibility Program is an initiative by the Office of the Chief Information Officer's (OCIO) Digital Accessibility Team. It is an initiative to raise awareness at the Library of Congress about how to create accessible experiences. It focuses on the importance of the keyboard in supporting individuals with motor, visual, and cognitive disabilities. Junior Fellows Bailey White and Easton Brundage collaborated...- Contributor: White, Bailey
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoSuzanne L. Schulz: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day 2023 Junior Fellow Suzanne L. Schulz worked with the Library's Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office (PLOI) on the project, "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with LC Digital Collections." Drawing on digital resources from loc.gov, Suzanne created teaching materials for the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Teachers Network that highlight Library items focusing on African American artistic and intellectual movements that promoted sovereignty for Haiti before,...- Contributor: L. Schulz, Suzanne
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoSara Augustin: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day Daniel A. P. Murray was the second African American librarian to work at the Library of Congress. His collection highlights the important narratives, achievements and depictions of African Americans within history, marking his invaluable influence on the Library of Congress. 2023 Junior Fellow Sara Augustin looked to amplify the presence, involvement and voice of Black children within the collection. Although there are over 300,000...- Contributor: Augustin, Sara
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoIsabel Hernandez-Marquez: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day Engaging in effective user research continues to be a principal element to understand end users, stakeholders, internal staff, and other communities. During the summer of 2023, Isabel Hernandez-Marquez focused on conducting effective user research to aid the ongoing development of a digital submission tool. Isabel worked under the IT Design and Development Directorate and with various stakeholders. To conduct effective user research to design...- Contributor: Hernandez-Marquez, Isabel
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoMateo Arango: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day The Cine Latine: Shaping Latino Representation at the Movies project is the first resource in the Library's history dedicated to Latino films. The Latino Film Research Guide will connect users to moving image collections as part of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center featuring Latino characters and stories. Latino voices have been historically underrepresented in many forms of media but in recent years there has...- Contributor: Arango, Mateo
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoDavid Fiora: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day In the U.S. Copyright Office, Junior Fellow David Fiora collaborated with Junior Fellows Madison Price and Rosalia Garcia to review and update the metadata of digitized, pre-1977 copyright registration records. With over 40 million cards from 1870-1977, a vendor used optical character recognition and other tools to extract the metadata needed to make the cards searchable online. Junior Fellows assisted in this process by...- Contributor: Fiora, David
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoErika Cooley: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day Junior Fellow Erika Cooley worked at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) on the Universal Music Group lacquer disc processing project, a collections-oriented project that involves the creation of metadata for unprocessed master music recordings on 16-inch lacquer discs. The Universal Music Group collection is comprised of over 200,000 recordings on various sound formats that contain the work of influential artists such as Ella...- Contributor: Cooley, Erika
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoRobert Johnson: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day In 1997, the Prints & Photographs Division acquired the archive of the architect Paul Marvin Rudolph (1918-1997). The collection contains over 150,000 drawings, prints, photographs, and manuscript items related to Rudolph's work. His style evolved over his career, starting with modern residences and growing to large, institutional buildings in the brutalist style. Many of Rudolph's buildings are being reevaluated as they age, and decisions...- Contributor: Johnson, Robert
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoJasper Forster: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day RISM, or the International Inventory of Musical Sources, is an international database that documents extant musical sources worldwide. Previously, RISM only accepted sources created prior to 1800, but have recently changed this to now include manuscripts from any era. This change inspired the following project focused on publishing records of American music manuscripts from the 19th and 20th century held within the Library of...- Contributor: Forster, Jasper
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoEvangeline Gahn: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day Effective user research remains an important tool for the Library of Congress, in order to ensure user-friendly experiences of the tools used to support internal operations and external access by users. Junior Fellow 2023 Evangeline Gahn, with the support and guidance of Project Mentor Libby Bawcombe, conducted a user research study which focused on the development of a Digital Submission Portal for the Veterans...- Contributor: Gahn, Evangeline
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoMadison Price: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day This project aimed to capture metadata for all of the Office of Copyright Record's digitized copyright application cards and make them available through the Copyright Public Records System (CPRS). The current priority are records created between 1938 and 1945. To accomplish this, a vendor captured specific metadata from the cards. Madison Price, 2023 Junior Fellow, and two other interns acted as first level reviewers....- Contributor: Price, Madison
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, Video2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day 2023 Junior Fellow, Rosalia Garcia, supported the U.S. Copyright Office's goals through her work in the Copyright Card Catalog Metadata Capture Project. The goal of the Copyright Card Catalog Metadata Capture Project is to improve the online discoverability of U.S. Copyright records by enhancing their current metadata. Rosalia's role within the project was to support the Card Catalog Data Capture (CCDC) clean-up process by...- Contributor: Garcia, Rosalia
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoKarla Camacho: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day As a 2023 Junior Fellow, Karla Camacho, her co-fellows Madeline Griffin and Mateo Arango, and the project mentor Dani Thurber worked with the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) on Cine Latine: Shaping Representation at the Movies. Cine Latine is a two-facet project. For the first phase of the project, the team developed a Latino Film Research Guide that consists of a curated...- Contributor: Camacho, Karla
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoCourtney Murray: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day 2023 Junior Fellow Courtney Murray worked with the Serial and Government Publications Division to provide more context for these important newspapers. Courtney wrote ten title essays on newspapers from the collection that are crucial in understanding the African American Press and African American history. Her essays covered single-issue antebellum and postbellum newspapers a part of the Colored Conventions Movement, long-running newspapers significant to the...- Contributor: Murray, Courtney
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoElle Nicoletti: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day As a 2023 Junior Fellow, Elle Nicoletti worked with the Humanities and Social Sciences Section of the Researcher and Reference Services Division on a project titled "Local History of U.S. Immigrant Communities from 1880-1924," an ongoing project aimed at creating a more centralized, accessible, and diverse set of resources relating to immigrant history at the Library of Congress. The arrival of new populations to...- Contributor: Nicoletti, Elle
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoOlivia Hewang: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) supports and provides resources to individuals and institutions who use Library digital materials to create projects that center communities of color. As a part of this work, Olivia created a guide to help present day Asian American activists and artists draw connections to a history of Asian American activism in the 1960s and 70s. The guide highlights interracial...- Contributor: Hewang, Olivia
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoLindsay Musil: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day 2023 Junior Fellow Lindsay Musil collaborated with the Manuscript Division's librarians, historians, and archivists to produce a series of blogs that spotlights the division's diverse collections. Along with these blogs, Lindsay created resources focused on engaging students in orienting themselves and their research with the Manuscript Reading Room. The blog series supports the Manuscript Division's strategic goal of enhancing the accessibility and discoverability of...- Contributor: Musil, Lindsay
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoHannah Meyer: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day While working in the Science, Business and Technology Division, Junior Fellow Hannah Meyer wrote and published "This Month in Business History" entries for the Business Reference Section. These entries highlight the important contributions made by individuals and organizations from historically underrepresented groups whose work often goes unrecognized in U.S. business history. Focusing on the contributions of historically marginalized groups expands opportunities for diverse audiences...- Contributor: Meyer, Hannah
- Date: 2023-10-11
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Film, VideoFrom Sexual Regulation to Antigay Discrimination Library of Congress Chief Communications Officer Roswell Encina interviews Kluge Prize winner George Chauncey. In their discussion, Encina and Chauncey survey the history of sexual regulation in the United States, and the contours of systematic discrimination that LGBTQ people faced only a few decades ago.- Contributor: Encina, Roswell - Chauncey, George
- Date: 2023-10-10
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Film, VideoAIDS: A Tragedy and a Turning Point AIDS took the lives of a generation of gay male writers, activists, leaders, and ordinary people, even as it also set the stage for changes to come by prompting a new wave of activism and leading unprecedented numbers of people to come out. George Chauncey, Deborah Gould, Duane Cramer, and Jafari Allen revisit the early history of AIDS and discuss this important period of...- Contributor: Cramer, Duane - Chauncey, George - Butterfield, Kevin - Gould, Deborah - Allen, Jafari
- Date: 2023-10-10
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Film, VideoWhy Marriage Equality Became a Goal Kluge Prize winner George Chauncey interviews civil rights attorney Mary Bonauto. In this interview, they discuss how litigation and the public debate played out over the past three decades, and why they think both the law and public opinion changed so rapidly.- Contributor: Chauncey, George - Bonauto, Mary
- Date: 2023-10-10
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Film, VideoNEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony The NEA National Heritage Fellowships is the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients' artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage.- Date: 2023-09-29
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Film, VideoA Conversation with Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff Veteran journalists Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff, chair of the executive advisory council of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, will be at the Library of Congress for a conversation and screening to mark the induction of five decades of Moyers' programs in the archive.- Contributor: Moyers, Bill - Woodruff, Judy
- Date: 2023-09-28
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Film, VideoA Talk with Sheila Johnson Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, interviews Sheila Johnson about her book, "Walk Through Fire".- Contributor: Johnson, Sheila - Hayden, Carla
- Date: 2023-09-27