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 ...

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 (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 ...

Snowstorm cleanup in 1948. Views of Main Street from more than a century ago. A Woodworth Grocery receipt from 1907 for apples, oats, corn flakes and beer. The Concord Public Library holds a trove of ...

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 Lubbock Public Library has added more than a million titles to is digital collection through a new app. On Wednesday, the City of Lubbock announced that through the hoopla Digital app, patrons can ...

The Brooklyn Public Library is in the process of creating a digital archive of the original Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which was published from 1841 to 1963 (with a gap there, toward the very end). They ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 University Libraries has recently digitized early city directories of Reno, Sparks, and the surrounding areas, which date from 1900. These directories provide information on residents and ...