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 ...

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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 ...

If you love the idea of listening to Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez read from one of his novels or literary master Jorge Luis Borges narrate a short story, you’re in for a treat. In honor ...

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Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month the U.S. Library of Congress has rolled out an interactive online exhibit that tells the story of the sometimes complex but never boring relationship between ...

The Library of Congress National Book Festival, co-founded in 2001 by first lady Laura Bush, a former librarian, and National Librarian James H. Billington, first threw open its doors on the East Lawn ...

Issues for 1973-1977 sponsored by the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division and the National Collection of Fine Arts. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...