Library of Congress on Flickr

Visit the Library of Congress Flickr Historic Photos Pilot Project:

LC on Flickr

See a sample of the wonderful photos in their collection.

From the Library of Congress Flickr page:

"The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections. Please add tags and comments, too! More words are needed to help more people find and use these pictures.

By way of background, Library of Congress staff often make digital versions of our popular image collections available online as quickly as possible by relying primarily on the identifying information that came with the original photos. That text can be incomplete and is even inaccurate at times. We welcome your contribution of names, descriptions, locations, tags, and also your general reactions.

The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division houses some 14 million items, ranging from historical photographs and architectural drawings to advertising labels and posters from all over the world. You can find more than one million pictures among the digitized collections in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog at the Library of Congress Web site. You might also enjoy the special presentations of photos also appear in American Memory and Exhibitions.

For more information or to ask a question about the sets of photos in flickr, please visit the Prints and Photographs Reading Room home page."

NMCC Graduation Photos

Here are some wonderful photos from graduation.

A few campus photos

Also recently donated to the library

We just received a wonderful stuffed Cat In The Hat from NMCC instructor Heidi Broad-Smith.
He sits out near the children's books and is there for any child who visits the library.
The adults like having him around too.

Just donated

Thanks to Rick Flannery for his donation of the book Birds and Wind Farms to the library.
It is a wonderful addition to our collection of books for the Wind Technology program.

The library accepts donations of books and monetary donations in support of our collection.
If you wish to donate a book in honor or memory of someone, please contact Gail Roy at 768-2734 or email.

Weeding a collection

Annually we do a thorough review of all that sits on the shelves in the library. We look at items to see if they should be pulled due to condition, relevancy, age, etc. The books are either offered to other libraries or put out on our free shelf in the library.

Some works are easy targets for removal. Medical, computer, technology, and other areas where information changes rapidly will need to be updated more often. English literature, history, art, and children's books have a longer staying power.

As we cull the collection this year, I'd like to post a few of my favorite "withdraws" and offer up their replacements.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was in desperate need of replacement. Our 1977 copy of the book (below) is well worn and has been read many many times. The pages are dog-eared and the paper and cover are warped. The cover art is intriguing though and I may just save it for a book display. The newer 50th anniversary edition replacement appears below as well.

Reading Aloud

Some thoughts on Reading Aloud from the New York Times.