THE SIGNAL UPDATE
New datasetsħ new dataset items were added to the Selected Datasets collection recently! Some highlights include the Dataset from the bug bytes sound library and the annual update to the National Enquirer Index and Database Files, 1977 – present. This online collection contains digitized items from the Library of Congress originally made available through a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil as “The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures/Brasil e Estados Unidos: Expandindo Fronteiras, Comparando Culturas,” as part of the Global Gateways initiative. The collection explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history. These materials reveal a great breadth and scope in the primary and secondary materials that concern Sir Francis Drake they range in date from 1579 to 1765 and are written in English, Spanish, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. Migrated from the Global Gateway platform, this online presentation of the Hans and Hanni Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division consists of manuscripts, books, maps, medals and portraits documenting Sir Francis Drake’s accomplishments as an explorer and naval strategist. Included in the Essays section is a biography of Liszt. These primary source materials include music manuscripts, early editions of printed music, correspondence, personal records, and annotated ephemera.
This online presentation has been updated to incorporate more than 900 newly-scanned items related to Franz Liszt. Photograph, Sigmund Freud, his daughter Anna Freud, and granddaughter Eva Freud, May 1929.Įnvelope, Sigmund Freud to Marie Bonaparte, February 20, 1930. Below are a few of these newly digitized books:Įnvelope, Sigmund Freud to Marie Bonaparte, April 24, 1927.
THE SIGNAL MANUALS
Highlights from recent additions include Spalding sports manuals and rulebooks for rugby, archery, bowling, roller polo, and more “Photo-Auto” Maps, 11 volumes showing photographs of driving routes from 1909 Panorama of the Hudson, showing both sides of the river from New York to Albany as seen from the deck of the Hudson River day line steamers thousands of books of poetry and much more including books on travel, cooking, agriculture, children’s literature, philosophy. The Library of Congress continues to release thousands of newly digitized books online each week! To date, nearly 145,000 titles (totaling over 30 million pages) have been released into the Selected Digitized Books collection. Visit here for previous updates.ġ45,000 Digitized General Collections books available online Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal now shares out semi-regularly about new additions to publicly-available digital collections and we can’t wait to show off all the hard work from our colleagues from across the Library.
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