Broad Agency Announcement - Innovator In Residence Program 030ADV26R0021
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AI-generated · Feb 25, 2026Proposals are invited for the Innovator in Residence Program at Library of Congress Labs. Selected residents will conduct research using Library collections, create a unique digital work that may be hosted on the LC Labs website, host a public program, and serve as an ambassador for the Library during their tenure.
The residency aims to re-imagine how the Library’s digital collections connect with users, inspire lifelong relationships, and foster creativity in emerging research styles. Proposals should focus on research and work that provide insight and inspiration, help users discover Library items, reach new or diverse audiences, and enable creative remixing and reuse of Library content.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. One of the missions of Library of Congress Labs (Labs) at the Library of Congress (Library) is to enable transformational experiences that connect the Library s digital collections with the American people. Labs established an Innovator in Residence Program (IIR) in 2017 to invite creative people with diverse perspectives and expertise to enable these transformational experiences, developing work inspired by the Library s collections that demonstrate possibilities of how the Library relates to and enriches the work, life and imagination of the American people. The residency serves the Library s Digital Strategy by encouraging creative re-imaginings of how to bring the Library to users, inspire lifelong relationships, and support creativity in emerging styles of research. Residents are required to do research with Library collections, create a unique digital work that may be hosted on the LC Labs website, host a public program, and serve as an ambassador for the Library during their tenure. The Labs team seeks proposals for research and work that promote insight and inspiration, discovery of Library items, connecting to new or diverse audiences and/or creative remixing and reuse.
From Combined Synopsis/Solicitation posted on Feb 24, 2026The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. One of the missions of Library of Congress Labs (Labs) at the Library of Congress (Library) is to enable transformational experiences that connect the Library s digital collections with the American people. Labs established an Innovator in Residence Program (IIR) in 2017 to invite creative people with diverse perspectives and expertise to enable these transformational experiences, developing work inspired by the Library s collections that demonstrate possibilities of how the Library relates to and enriches the work, life and imagination of the American people. The residency serves the Library s Digital Strategy by encouraging creative re-imaginings of how to bring the Library to users, inspire lifelong relationships, and support creativity in emerging styles of research. Residents are required to do research with Library collections, create a unique digital work that may be hosted on the LC Labs website, host a public program, and serve as an ambassador for the Library during their tenure. The Labs team seeks proposals for research and work that promote insight and inspiration, discovery of Library items, connecting to new or diverse audiences and/or creative remixing and reuse. ***AMENDMENT 0001*** The purpose of this amendment is to attach the questions and answers document (07).
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