If baseball is a highlight of your summer, join a celebration of America’s national pastime at Family Day on Saturday, August 9, 2025. The sport is well represented at the Library through one of the largest and most diverse collections of baseball-related materials in the world. Activities during the drop-in program (10:30 a.m. to 3:30 …
Play ball! Baseball trivia, that is. In this post about the Library's community outreach at Nationals Park, we share some of our favorite trivia questions.
Let’s celebrate the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics a century after the Games were last held there. Check out this brief history of the Games, an overview of 1924 Olympic “firsts” and related stories of American athletes featured in Library collections.
Sarah Peet of the Informal Learning Office contributed research for this post. On Saturday, July 20th, the Library of Congress’ Informal Learning Office (ILO) hosts its latest monthly, in-person family program. July’s Family Day highlights the Olympics in recognition of the 2024 Summer Games from July 26th to August 11th, and the Paralympic Games from …
One of the most absorbing and interesting things I get to do at the Library is to explore the amazing collections in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room (P&P) both onsite and online. Regardless of the topic I’m researching, there’s bound to be a wealth of relevant images in the P&P online catalog (PPOC) that …