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 ...

The Indianapolis Public Library is beefing up its collection of e-books and e-audio books in response to coronavirus-related spikes in demand. On Friday, the library spent $200,000 to add another ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “These awards are particularly exciting because we get to witness how artists ...

This Friday, the Library of Congress celebrates its 220th birthday. The nation's library manages about 410 million digital files — 15.9 petabytes worth of digital collection content. To celebrate, the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 libraries nationwide grapple with increasing pressures to remove certain books from their shelves, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is taking a bold stand by extending its digital collection to ...