The Georgetown University Library sponsors a wide range of events each academic year, and they have created this website for those curious individuals who might want to revisit a talk or event they might have missed. The programs are divided into three categories, including "Library Associates Events" and "Georgetown University Forum". All told, there are about a dozen events here currently, and...

John Hubbard, a librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, offers the the Library Link of the Day, a website designed for busy librarians who want to keep abreast of news, blogs, and more in the library world. Each day, Hubbard posts a single website link, which visitors can either check out on this website or subscribe to via email. Most of the time, this link will be to a popular news...

Started in January of 1942, the Library of Congress Information Bulletin was originally a short two-page mimeographed publication which provided pragmatic information for the Library's staff. Many of the Bulletins published during World War II reflected many immediate concerns of the time, such as air raid watches and Red Cross war relief drives. These days, the Bulletin reports to an audience of...

The Library of Congress's bimonthly magazine offers librarians, educators, archivists, and members of the general public a way to keep abreast of new exhibits, collections and projects at the LOC. Each issue of this twenty-eight page magazine, which was launched in 2012, can be downloaded for free in PDF format on this website. Most issues highlight LOC collections and materials that center on a...

The Library of Congress' web archives of the 2003 Iraq war offer an overview of the collection, a brief history of why the war began, plus search and browse capabilities. The types of materials in the archives include newspapers, websites, veteran organizations, maps, photos, official government documents, legal materials, scholarly papers, editorial cartoons and periodicals. Visitors who know...

The Library of Congress's Cities and Towns collection features over 3,000 digitized maps of cities and towns. While the majority of these maps portray U.S. cities, the collection also includes maps of cities in China, Brazil, Canada, and a handful of other countries. Visitors can browse this fascinating collection by year (approximately 2,000 of these maps date from the nineteenth century; the...

What do Missouri and Virginia have in common? They are both two of the places profiled on the Library of Congress' "Places in History" site. This remarkable site brings together maps and other primary documents to profile interesting places across the broad span of American history. Currently, there are six entries, including First Battle of Bull Run, Rich Mountain and Vicinity, and Gulf Coast....

On a recent visit to the Library of Congress: Poetry website, the first line of a poem by William Stafford appeared on the top of the page. The poem in question was "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border", and it just one of many poems that can be found on this simple delightful site. Amidst this cornucopia of poems, visitors can also learn about the current poet laureate and take...

For library lovers around the globe, Library Planet is a new project that seeks to offer "a crowdsourced Lonely Planet for Libraries" and to "inspire library travelers." Library Planet was founded by two Danish librarians, Christian Lauersen and Marie Engberg Eiriksson, and welcomes writing contributions from anyone. As of this write-up, the project features libraries in Denmark, China, the...

Librarian professionals and support staff are more important than ever, and there are a number of helpful websites that bring together web-based materials designed for just such persons. One such site is the online Library Support Staff Resource Center, created and maintained by the American Library Association. Organized as an extended set of links and in-house resources, visitors can scroll...