You can mentally sort the 168 million items in the Library of Congress into three big buckets: material that is unique to the Library (like Ira Gershwin’s home movies), material that is rare but ...

The idea that the catalog could be created as a computerized, online access system from such records was still a decade away, but Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford announced in his foreword to ...

Beginning Friday, Madison's "Notes for a Speech in Congress" of June 8, 1789, will be available online, along with about 12,000 other pages from his papers preserved in the Library of Congress.