A new LibGuide from the American Library Association (ALA) was recently created to help libraries explore the thousands of primary sources available from the Library of Congress online collection. The ...

The Library of Congress has revealed that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education ...

The Library of Congress (LC) holds two of the five known manuscript copies of President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address, so it’s no surprise that LC would hold an event to mark the speech’s ...

Since their inception, libraries have been repositories of knowledge, community centers, and integral to a democratic society. Academic library collections are the cornerstone of inquiry and research, ...

As the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Library in Chicago morphed into the Obama Presidential Center—without a place to hold the records of his administration—reactions ranged from slight ...

With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

Archives serve as a lens for people to understand the past and see firsthand accounts of history through photographs, newspapers and other documents. At ASU Library, millions of these documents and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “These awards are particularly exciting because we get to witness how artists ...

The Digital Services unit at the University Libraries has recently digitized mineral thin sections from the Great Basin Science Sample and Records Library (GBSSRL), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.

A panoramic map of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, MO. Library of Congress Map lovers rejoice: soon, thousands of maps from the Library of Congress’ collection will be free to gaze at online.

In a bid to enhance the reading experience of its patrons, the Lafayette Public Library is set to revolutionize its digital lending platform. With the introduction of cloudLibrary by Bibliotheca, ...

Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left); and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography ...