These are past recordings of science and business lectures, book talks, and special programs given by experts in their fields and sponsored by the division. For list of the division's recorded programs (2001-current) use our Science and Business Webcasts guide.
Event Videos
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Film, VideoCelestial Navigation: Celebrating 175 Years of the U.S. Nautical Almanac This event celebrates the 175th anniversary of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office, with presentations by Library specialists and Susan Stewart, chief of the Nautical Almanac Office.- Contributor: Harbster, Jennifer - Levy, Joshua - Parrish, Abraham - Stewart, Susan
- Date: 2024-07-25
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Film, VideoA Night at the Adams: 85th Anniversary Celebration View this celebration the 85th anniversary of the Art Deco and Beaux-Arts inspired John Adams Building of the Library of Congress.- Contributor: Narrator
- Date: 2024-04-18
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Film, VideoJournals from Solar Eclipse Expeditions in the 1800s and Early 1900s Two Library specialists -- head of science reference JJ Harbster and historian Joshua Levy -- take a close look at personal journals and letters written by scientists in expedition groups, traveling across the world to view solar eclipses during the mid-1800s and early 1900s.- Contributor: Harbster, Jj - Levy, Joshua
- Date: 2024-04-03
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Film, VideoWhat to Pack for a Solar Eclipse Expedition in the Late 1800s Two Library specialists -- head of science reference JJ Harbster and historian Joshua Levy -- look at a photo album more than a century old, compiled during an expedition to see a solar eclipse in on the coast of Angola in 1889. Looking through the album, the experts talk about what the sailors and scientists packed for the arduous journey to see the eclipse…- Contributor: Harbster, Jj - Levy, Joshua
- Date: 2024-04-03
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Film, VideoInternational Women's Day Symposium: Panel Discussion The morning continues with a panel session and conversation around the current state of investments in technology, increasing women in leadership positions, and how to incorporate diverse thinking when solving for today's problems through technology.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2023
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Film, VideoInternational Women's Day Keynote Speaker: Vivienne Ming An inspiring program featuring Vivienne Ming, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, inventor and artificial intelligence expert as keynote speaker on inclusion and the future of work.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2023
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Film, VideoRain and Snow in Your Backyard and Around the Globe The Science, Technology and Business Division welcomes NASA Goddard Scientist, Dr. George J. Huffman, to the Library's Pickford Theater to discuss NASA's use of satellite and surface data to understand the processes that create precipitation and how the results can be applied to analyze floods, droughts, and global weather and climate patterns; manage freshwater supplies; provide microinsurance against weather disasters in developing countries; and…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2023
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Film, VideoFriends of the Library: American Feast The Library of Congress hosted an event its Friends of the Library group to promote and celebrate one of the Library's new books, "American Feast," and the collections and recipes featured in the book. The event featured tasting stations for recipes in the cookbook, a conversation with Library curators and specialists about the collections and the making of the book, and a cocktail demonstration.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Publishing Office - Library of Congress. Office of the Librarian
- Date: 2023
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Film, VideoBig Telescopes and Big Discoveries in Our Solar System Big Telescopes and Big Discoveries in Our Solar System With the successful launch and commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Large Synoptic Survey telescope in the final stages of construction, and plans for additional extremely large ground-based and space telescopes underway, the next generation of state-of-the-art observatories is on the horizon. These facilities are not only designed to peek into distant…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2022
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Film, VideoArithmetic, Numeracy, Literacy, Imagination 2021 Junior Fellows Amal Charara and Sean DiLeonardi worked with science, technology and business materials related to the history of arithmetic in order to examine how and why we count. Techniques of counting follow us everywhere, from the classroom to the counting house, yet much of the Business Division's holdings on these topics from the 18th century to the present remain understudied. Together, Charara…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoThe DOAJ/DMEP Openly Available eSerials Project Junior Fellows Alex Reese and Emmeline Kaser worked with the Digital Content Management Section (DCM) on the Openly Available e-Serials Project. DCM was formed in 2018 to support the acquisition and management of the Library of Congress's rapidly growing digital general collections. This 2021 Junior Fellows project supported DCM's work with the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate to expand the Library's collection of e-serials…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoLC Labs Outreach and Audience Research As 2021 Junior Fellows for the Library of Congress in the Digital Strategy Directorate with LC Labs, Abigail Tick and Emily Zerrenner have been doing research on audience engagement for Labs and expanding their knowledge of the role emerging technologies play in the cultural heritage sector. Abigail has been researching how current users engage with the Library's digital materials in innovative and creative ways…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoThe Rise of American Industrialists 2021 Junior Fellow Hannah Spring Pfeifer worked in the Science, Technology and Business Division to produce a blog series on notable American industrialists and their companies' legacies and a LibGuide on starting non-profit organizations. The topics Pfeifer covered included the Du Pont family, pyrotechnics, and electricity. A key focus was George Westinghouse, Jr. and his myriad businesses advertised in a film series called The…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoBEOnline+ Business Website Collection Review Pariti Sutaria's 2021 Junior Fellows project centered on BEOnline+, a database of over 1,200 selected websites on all aspects of business and economics. BEOnline+ was started by the former Cataloging Directorate (now Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate) in 1996, as an experimental project to organize online resources. BEOnline+ resources are maintained by the Business Reference Section in a database from which subject guides are…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoLatin American Food Studies As part of the Latin American Food Studies Project of the Science, Technology and Business Division (ST&B), 2021 Junior Fellow Joseph A. Torres-González created "Coffee in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Research Guide," will assist Library of Congress users interested in coffee in the aforementioned regions. This commodity shapes the lives of millions of people across the region in different ways, not only…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoTechnology and Aging: Updates Nina Silverberg and Vijeth Iyengar discussed the findings of the Task Force on Research and Development for Technology to Support Aging Adults. The task force was established under the White House National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology to examine the potential of technology to maximize independence for older Americans by sustaining health, independence and opportunities for social engagement. In early March, this…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoApollo at 50: The Lasting Effect of Exploration of the Lunar Surface on Our Current Exploration of the Moon The Apollo missions to the Moon provided the first ever samples from a planetary body that were collected in a geologic context. Now with data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Noah Petro discussed re-evaluating those samples in a local and regional context which provides improved understanding for what those samples represent.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoSolving the Puzzles of Planet Formation in the Modern Era of Planet-Hunting Elisa Quintana described NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which searched around our sun's nearest neighbors for Earth-size planets. Quintana discussed the wide array of planetary systems that TESS may find. She also described the follow-up measurements that reveal clues as to which planets might be rocky and which may have Earth-like atmospheres, shedding light on how planets form and whether our solar system…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoHurricane Hunting NASA Style: Using Space-Based and Airborne Measurements to Better Understand and Predict Hurricanes NASA's Scott Braun discussed our current understanding and the suite of tools that NASA provides to improve understanding of hurricanes and similar storms. Millions of people worldwide are exposed to the potential hazards of these storms. Advances in observation systems and modeling have led to advances in storm track prediction and storm intensity forecasting. However rapid changes in storm intensity, storm structure, precipitation and…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoExploring Our Escaping Atmosphere: Going Above the Top of the World to Touch the Sky NASA research scientist Douglas Rowland discussed the VISIONS-2 mission, which launched from the only inhabited place on Earth in which the solar wind has direct access to the atmosphere. He explained atmospheric escape and what we are learning from the mission data, and shared what it was like to work only 769 miles from the North Pole.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoCosmic Explosions and Accelerators Regina Caputo of NASA discussed astronomical processes and the contribution of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at the forefront of a new era of astronomy. Supernovae and gamma ray bursts give off a variety of messenger signals. Astronomers observing these signals can get different information from different signals, and recently, by coordinating their observations of multiple messengers from the same event, they have begun…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoFungi: You Can't Live With 'em or Without 'em Richard Calderone discussed the human pathogen Candida albicans, the pathogenesis of invasive candidiasis and the identification of antifungal drug targets.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoFrom Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates Nicholeen Viall discusses recent observations from STEREO and the Parker Solar Probe, which show the constantly roiling complex dynamic of the sun's atmosphere at work, even when the sun is relatively quiet. NASA Observatories examining the atmosphere of the sun are revealing extraordinary detail in the solar corona. Material from this mysteriously super-hot outer layer expands outward to become the solar wind, accelerating to…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoThe Circadian Clock and Shift Work in the 21st Century Michael Smolensky discusses the body's circadian rhythm and its role in the personal health of shift workers.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019
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Film, VideoIntegrative Medicine and Wellness in Our Healthcare System Hakima Amri discusses new practices in alternative and complementary medicine.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2019