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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. This is the largest release of ...
Will the entire contents of the Library of Congress ever become available online, for a monthly subscription fee? This question was originally answered on Quora by Kate Zwaard.
Established in 1800, the Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. It keeps important state documents, including a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Library of Congress New content will be added to the National Screening Room's playlist each month. For starters, it is featuring 281 titles. (While some rights owners ...
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 ...
The Library of Congress just released a book on the history of the card catalog, and while I can physically feel you clicking away from this article even as I type, I am here to tell you that The ...
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.
This book about card catalogues, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a ...
The Library's existing record of Twitter's first 12 years isn't going anywhere, but -- as an included white paper points out-- it isn't the institution's usual practice to gather data comprehensively.
In the basement catalog at the Library of Congress, Hayden pulls out a card for her favorite childhood book — Bright April by Marguerite De Angeli, about a young Girl Scout.
C-SPAN's original feature documentary, [The Library of Congress], is a behind-the-scenes look at the national repository, providing the history of the institution, a tour of its iconic Jefferson ...