Yesterday’s blog about Executive Orders mentioned one of The Legal Genealogist‘s favorite blogs, In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress. Almost immediately, a regular reader responded that she hadn’t been aware of that blog.
Time and time past to remedy that, for sure. The LOC blogs are among the best offerings the Internet has.
Because, you see, the LOC blogs are the blogs of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where librarians and archivists can strut their stuff online and share all kinds of information that, in the past, required a visit to the Nation’s Capital.
There are, at the moment, 10 blogs published on the Library of Congress website, and every last one of them has a subscription feature; you can have each new post delivered to your e-mail box, or you can send it to your online RSS reader. So there’s really no excuse for not adding these gems to your reading list.
And there’s bound to be one or more of those 10 that’s just right for you, no matter what your particular interests are, since they cover everything from music and art on one side to science and technology on the other. If you’re a teacher, there’s a LOC blog for you. A poet? Yep. Got you covered. Interested in digitization? That too.
This is the main blog of the Library of Congress. It doesn’t have a description on its About page but posts cover a wide variety of topics and categories range from Abraham Lincoln to Washington DC.
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Judy, thanks for sharing this!
Always learn so much from you.
Thanks for the kind words, Valerie!
Judy, so many things I would never know if I didn’t read your blogs!
And so many things I wouldn’t know if I wasn’t writing them, Mary Ann! We all have so very much to learn from each other.
Ah-ha! Now I know your secret, Judy. I thought you were amazingly brilliant, but it turns out you are amazingly-brilliant at finding fabulous sources… oh, that means you’re amazingly brilliant. Amazing. I now have 5 of these blogs on my GoogleReader. Maybe it will rub off. Cheers!
Knowing where to look is about 90% of genealogy, Celia!! Glad you’re finding these blogs useful. They’re just so cool.