It is true that they seldom have formal training in the intricacies of the cataloguer’s art: they are not necessarily up on the elaborate Anglo-American cataloguing rules, nor are they current concerning the periodic “Rrs, or Rule Interpretations, issued by the Library of Congress, which—like hermeneutical dispatches from the I.R.S. or the Financial Accounting Standards perplexing cases in classification as they emerge. Most operators have had no library-school courses in the Dewey Decimal system (still thriving, by the way, and very big in Europe), or the “Sears List of Subject Headings,” or Cutter numbers, or the abbreviational niceties of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (I.S.B.D.) format—but they do apparently pick up a great deal as they go.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.comDiscards1
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www.indiewire.com www.indiewire.com
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'Porgy and Bess' to Screen at Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theatre<br /> by [[Jim Hemphill]] in IndieWire accessed on 2026-03-30T10:47:37
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www.loc.gov www.loc.gov
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https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCGFT/freelcgft.html
This page provides print-ready PDF files for the the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), as well as the Genre/Form Terms Manual, which provides guidelines and instructions for making proposals and for applying genre/form terms. LCGFT is available as part of LC's web-based subscription product, Classification Web Plus .
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https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCSH/freelcsh.html
This page provides print-ready PDF files for the 46th Edition of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Data for the 46th edition was selected in April 2025. For users desiring enhanced functionality, LCSH will continue as part of the web-based subscription product, Classification Web Plus.
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html<br /> Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
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https://id.loc.gov/<br /> Library of Congress Linked Data Service
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)<br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings
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www.loc.gov www.loc.gov
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that it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the Mississippi river, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished
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Stanley Kubrick photos - Of the more than 300 assignments Kubrick did for Look (1946-1951), a little more than 100 are in Library of Congress collection; other Kubrick material may be found in the Museum of the City of New York (see Related Resources). Because of interest expressed in Kubrick's work, all Look jobs with which Stanley Kubrick was associated are cataloged, with descriptions focusing on negatives that have been printed.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/look-magazine/about-this-collection/
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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hardhistoriesjhu.substack.com hardhistoriesjhu.substack.com
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The Library of Congress discontinued the use of “Negroes” as a subject heading in 1976.
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Local file Local file
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cards printed by theLibrary of Congress, Baker & Taylor, and OCLC;
In the 21st century, many library card catalog cards were commercially printed by OCLC, Baker & Taylor, and the Library of Congress
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hac.bard.edu hac.bard.edu
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In December 1998, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Library of Congress a grant to support a two-year project to digitize the Hannah Arendt Papers manuscript collection. The staff of the Manuscript Division at the Library administered the project, with assistance from the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) and in cooperation with the New School University in New York City.
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The collection was digitized in 1998-2000 through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Initially, some digital content was limited to onsite access through dedicated work stations available only at the Library of Congress, The New School in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. This updated digital presentation of the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress is now available publicly online in its entirety.
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www.digitalpreservation.gov www.digitalpreservation.gov
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github.com github.com
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https://github.com/kzwa/PhyllisDillerGagFile
Librarian Kate Zwaard of the Library of Congress has a GitHub repo of Phyllis Diller's Gag File.
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americanhistory.si.edu americanhistory.si.edu
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Other comedians have maintained their material in joke files, among them Bob Hope, whose file is in the collections at the Library of Congress.
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hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com
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The Lost Art of Library Card Catalogues<br /> by Claire Voon
Broadly a synopsis/advertisement for The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures (Chronicle, 2017), which I've put on my to read list.
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www.technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com
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For eight years, the US Library of Congress took it upon itself to maintain a public record of all tweets, but it stopped in 2018, instead selecting only a small number of accounts’ posts to capture. “It never, ever worked,” says William Kilbride, executive director of the Digital Preservation Coalition. The data the library was expected to store was too vast, the volume coming out of the firehose too great. “Let me put that in context: it’s the Library of Congress. They had some of the best expertise on this topic. If the Library of Congress can’t do it, that tells you something quite important,” he says.
Library of Congress' role in archiving twitter
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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www.booklooker.de www.booklooker.de
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Deutsche Büchereihandschrift looks very familiar to me. I've seen this loopy sort of script in many early 20th Century library card catalogs, including many cards at the Library of Congress
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- Jul 2021
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guides.loc.gov guides.loc.gov
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The Joke File has been scanned into an internal database that is accessible on-site in both the Recorded Sound and Moving Image Research Centers.
Bob Hope's commonplace book of jokes has been scanned digitally and available at the United States Library of Congress.
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- Jun 2021
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citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov
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Some interesting resources for music, audio, and video from the Library of Congress mentioned at IAnno21.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Twitter account for the Digital Strategy group of the Library of Congress.
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- Jun 2020
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www.loc.gov www.loc.gov
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A Bibliography
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- Dec 2019
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www.loc.gov www.loc.gov
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Johnson / In the Loop SA History
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Yes, this is important. The Librarian of Congress should reflect the actual profession of librarianship. The Librarian of Congress should be a woman
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librarianofprogress.com librarianofprogress.com
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Should understand current trends in Library Linked Data and BIBFRAME.
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