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 ...

With a collection of more than 1.6 million items, the Library of Congress is the world's largest repository of moving images. But beyond storing and cataloging precious films from the earliest days of ...

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As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...

WASHINGTON – James Madison (search), often called the "Father of the Constitution," did not think it needed a bill of rights. Public pressure was so great that he decided it would be politically ...

Yesterday, Chicago magazine posted an eye-opening flipbook of turn-of-the-last-century Chicago panoramas harvested from the Library of Congress' extensive collection. The 51 images offer a rare look ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Library Quarterly (LQ) embraces a wide array of original research perspectives, approaches, and quantitative, ...