The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research library ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said she does not feel her termination was personal and that she is concerned there is not much awareness from the White House on what the library actually ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sze is the author of 12 poetry collections and recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Library of ...

The U.S. Copyright Office is located in the James Madison Building at the Library of Congress. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A federal judge declined to issue an ...

Libraries have been buffeted by a string of policies and executive orders in the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency.

In 1894, Richard R. Wright published “A brief historical sketch of Negro education in Georgia.” The 60 page pamphlet provided an investigation into the lengths to which Black people had gone to secure ...

Housing 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, and images distributed across 838 miles of shelving, the Library of Congress is a treasure trove of knowledge akin to a ...

This extensive essay explores the relationship of the Library of Congress with the Smithsonian Institution. The Library developed relationships with other national libraries over the years, but none ...