Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
A recent obituary celebrates the life of librarian Ola Mae Spinks, who was instrumental in assembling the Library of Congress’s Born in Slavery collection. [via New York Times]
Penn Libraries has launched the “Discovering Marian Anderson” digital portal. Her scrapbooks, recordings, and programs await! [via infoDOCKET]
Sparrow language is changing. [via NPR]
Through an experimental podcast and oral history repository, librarian Nelson Santana sets out to document Latinx people’s COVID-19 experiences. [via LatinxTalk]
The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum is accepting contributions to its #MomentsOfResilience series! [via Smithsonian Magazine]
Archivist Dorothy Berry will lead a year-long project to digitize and describe the Houghton Library's special collection materials on African American history. [via Harvard Magazine]
Going diving for virtual invertebrates is all the rage among real-life invertebrate zoologists! [via Smithsonian Department of Invertebrate Zoology]
