Library of Congress Boosts Digital Public Library Database with Historic Maps By Dian Schaffhauser 12/05/16 A portal that serves as a search engine into the collections of libraries, museums and ...

133,000 gigabytes worth of tweets currently takes days to search, but The Library of Congress is nonetheless trying to archive American Twitter use for posterity The venerable US institution is ...

The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Twitter Because tweets have become too long and too numerous, the Library will only archive tweets of ‘historic value” ...

Library of Congress class or call numbers are particularly effective in certain kinds of specific-item subject searching and serve as supplements to keywords and descriptors, improving precision and ...

Library of Congress Adds ‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘My Girl’ to National Recording Registry Each year since 2002, 25 recordings that impacted American culture are chosen for inclusion in the ...

The library was originally meant for the sole use of Congress and its role was debated over successive administrations and crises, including several catastrophic fires.

In 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter announced a historic and incongruous partnership: Together, they would archive and preserve every tweet ever posted, creating a massive store of short ...

The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest national cultural institution, and debates about its name have swirled since its founding.