A new LibGuide from the American Library Association (ALA) was recently created to help libraries explore the thousands of primary sources available from the Library of Congress online collection. The ...

The Library of Congress has revealed that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education ...

Since their inception, libraries have been repositories of knowledge, community centers, and integral to a democratic society. Academic library collections are the cornerstone of inquiry and research, ...

The Library of Congress (LC) holds two of the five known manuscript copies of President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address, so it’s no surprise that LC would hold an event to mark the speech’s ...

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The Digital Services unit at the University Libraries has recently digitized mineral thin sections from the Great Basin Science Sample and Records Library (GBSSRL), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press announces the launch of its new digital collection portal, now powered by the Quartex platform. This significant upgrade marks the transition of ...

With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

Archives serve as a lens for people to understand the past and see firsthand accounts of history through photographs, newspapers and other documents. At ASU Library, millions of these documents and ...

As the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Library in Chicago morphed into the Obama Presidential Center—without a place to hold the records of his administration—reactions ranged from slight ...

Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left); and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography ...

The City Beat is a free Monday newsletter bringing Concord’s biggest local stories and city updates straight to your inbox. Snowstorm cleanup in 1948. Views of Main Street from more than a century ago ...