The Library of Congress this week quietly ended dedicated reference service for Local History and Genealogy after eighty-eight years of continuous service across multiple…
Category: Librarianship
A statement from the Guild Executive Board: In recent months, plans for modifications to the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room (MRR) and the Control…
AFSCME recently posted a video on YouTube with the following description. Note the library tie-in: When we think of library workers, we think of books.…
James H. Billington served as Librarian of Congress from 1987-2015. He died on November 20, 2018. “The idea of knowledge-based democracy, propounded and exemplified by…