This 6-week online course is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices. It covers: principles underlying cataloging practice; examples illustrating the principles in practice; tools ...

This National Student Employment Week (April 12–18), we recognize the impact student employees make across campuses nationwide. At UC San Diego Library, student employment offers more than a paycheck ...

“It would be a grave mistake to take such dramatic action outside of regular order.” – Re:Create letter Spurred by reports that House leaders are trying to fast ...

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 National Screening Room is a massive online repository that puts cinema’s most influential films at the tips of your fingers. And to watch them, all you have to do is click “play.” In Tuesday’s ...

The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...

As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list. Cher Horowitz fans, rejoice: Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen comedy is one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of Congress for its National Film ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

The Library of Congress is moving to strengthen the reliability and security of its enterprise IT environment under a potential $150 million multiple-award contract covering operations and maintenance ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a roughly $7.3 billion draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a three-bill package that could be paired with a stopgap spending measure ...

Earlier this year, it was announced that the Library of Congress had acquired the Stephen Sondheim collection. The legendary composer and lyricist passed away in 2021 at the age of 91 after a long and ...