Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Presenter Profile: James P Sweany


James Sweany has worked at the Library of Congress for 20 years, all in reference services. His career at the Library began in 1989 with the Congressional Research Service. He has also served in the Hispanic Division, the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, and as acting head of the Congressional and Interlibrary Loan Section. James has extensive reference experience with the Library’s microform and machine readable collections. He has been responsible for developing the Library’s American Indian collections, particularly Native American genealogical resources, and serves presently as head of the Library’s Local History & Genealogy Reading Room.

URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

NGS Class: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 11:00 am on the "Research" track. It is titled: "The Library of Congress: Pursuing Your Family History in the National library"

2 comments:

  1. Dear Mr. James Sweany,

    Write Your Family History – And Send it to the Library of Congress!
    January 13, 2014 by Erin Allen
    (The following is a guest post by James Sweany, head of Local History and Genealogy in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division.)

    Do you have a possibility to send me a higher resolution picture from this FAMILY RECORD ?
    It is so elegant to use it with Photo-shop for a gift tree.

    Kind Regards,
    Hans van Weezel
    Cazasu/Braila
    Romania
    hvweezel@gmail.com

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