In honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday this Friday (May 31), I originally wanted to write 200 different ways to remember and celebrate him. After staring my list, I thought… Read more »

The Library of Congress celebrated the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week this year by launching a digital version of their Rare Children’s Books Collection. The Library of Congress website… Read more »

The Library of Congress has acquired “a trove of letters” by the famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe, according to Elizabeth Blair at NPR. What these long-lost letters elucidate is a woman deeply… Read more »

According to Peggy McGlone at the Washington Post, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. is set for a renovation that for some, might mean a shift in the institution’s… Read more »

As they say, and have always said: if you love something, give it away … to the Library of Congress. That is exactly what collector Stephen A. Geppi has done with part of… Read more »

Dolly Parton — singer, songwriter, actress, legend, icon, humanitarian — started the Imagination Library in 1995, a literacy program that mails children a free book every month from the time… Read more »

You may just have woken up hungry for bananas, because today marks the 137th anniversary of H.L. Mencken’s birth. A legendary journalist, critic, linguist, world-class cigar-chomper, bathtub counter-historian, real-life Gene Kelly character,… Read more »

Some people use emoji. Some people do not use emoji. Some people, when they use emoji, use them to ask a partner or friend whether they should eat pizza for… Read more »

We’ve expressed our excitement about Dr. Carla Hayden here before. Back in July of this year, the respected librarian and community leader was appointed to the position of Librarian of… Read more »

In a 74-18 vote by the US Senate this past Wednesday, Dr. Carla Hayden was confirmed as America’s fourteenth Librarian of Congress. She is simultaenously the first woman and the first African-American to… Read more »