Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship on individual computational research projects. Computational research applies computing processes like algorithms to traditional research topics, such as the study of history. For example, digital history researchers often use computational methods to uncover relationships between historic materials,…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first maps that used the name “Ukraine”…
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR) invites you to attend a scholarly series on digital cultural heritage: the KBR Digital Heritage Seminar, in cooperation with ULB-UGent-VUB-UCL. In this series from February to June 2022, they will virtually host three academic scholars in presenting their work on cultural heritage and specifically on image processing. “The devil…
It was a year ago this week that the Black Lives Matter signs came down from the Lafayette Park fence where they had garnered national attention as a rallying point for protests for nearly a year. The park, across the street from the White House, had been fenced off to keep protesters at a distance.…
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the publication of a new guide describing the Prints & Photographs Division’s large and varied collection of cartoon and caricature art. The guide includes two galleries of sample images, one for works by artists who were active predominantly before the 20th century and one for those active…