Library Of Congress Marks 226th Anniversary As World’s Largest Library

On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...

The Library of Congress was created on April 24, 1800

President John Adams signed legislation to create the Library of Congress on April 24, 1800. It was originally housed in the ...

Family’s collection of old films no one wanted turns out to contain only copy of world’s first sci-fi flick

A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the ...

Library of Congress discovers long-lost piece of cinema history in family's dusty trunk

It was too good to throw away. That instinct just recovered one of the rarest films in cinema history.

Curators at Library of Congress discover lost film by legendary cinema pioneer after spotting 'subtle clue'

The Library of Congress discovered a lost 1897 film by Georges Méliès, a legendary pioneer of special effects, featuring one ...
Publishers Weekly

Library of Congress Collection Tells the Story of American Children’s Books

With contributions from the Library of Congress’s National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature and input from children’s book specialists, LoC writer and editor Hannah Freece created Tell Me a ...
The Press Democrat

Library of Congress appoints Arthur Sze to a second 1-year term as US poet laureate

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress, where ...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden cheered as she wins Authors Guild honor

Nearly a year since she was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump as librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden stood before hundreds of cheering members of the literary community as she received a ...