The Library of Congress has made 25 million digital catalog records available for anyone to use at no charge. The free data set includes records from 1968 to 2014.

The Library of Congress announced the largest release of digital records in its history on Tuesday. It will make 25 million records from its catalog available for the public to download. Prior to ...

"Being able to catalog or contain and make sense of all of this information is what the card catalog represents." Union catalogers at work at the Library of Congress in 1927.

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

Library of Congress Library of Congress Data Processing Office, 1964. Library of Congress Woman at Main Reading Room Card Catalog, Library of Congress, circa 1930s. Jack Delano—Library of Congress ...

French playing cards used to catalog books (18th century), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, published by Chronicle Books 2017 ...

The Library of Congress's catalog turned up 2,000 of them. Dimunation picked up almost 2,000 more at auction houses, public libraries and book dealers, but the last 250 he can't find anywhere.

To ensure reliable organization, libraries in the United States look to the Library of Congress, which has developed its own controlled vocabulary. This is a list — a very big list — of preferred ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare handwritten music and lyric sketches from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s The Wizard ...

An emoji-tastic version of the classic novel has garnered itself a spot in the Library of Congress. The final deadline for Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech Awards is Friday, June 20, at 11 ...

But a public records module, letting users look up who owns the rights to a particular work or set, is in beta and on track to become the primary means of searching LoC’s catalog. A byproduct of the ...