Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...

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It was a hot and dismal day in Charlottesville, Virginia, in June 1815 as Thomas Jefferson watched the last of ten wagons carry away his entire personal library. His beloved 1744 edition of Cicero was ...

Richard Templeton is a frequent user of the Library of Congress. He lives in Maryland. The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest ...

At the Library of Congress, a team of scientists is working hard to make objects age as fast as possible. That may seem counter to the usual goals of a library, but the purpose is ultimately ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...