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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Literacy Center of West Michigan will receive $100,000 as winner of the 2026 Kislak Family Foundation Prize, one of the top national honors from the Library of Congress Literacy ...

The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders to mark the ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

"As the oldest federal institution, the Library of Congress serves as a steward to some of the country’s most defining works — inspiring learners, creatives and artists — for more than two centuries.

The library honored Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has donated more than 300 million books to U.S. children under the age of 5 since 1995.

A new Library of Congress online collection features the full Stony Brook World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program oral history project.

The inspector general at the Library of Congress is reviewing a whistleblower complaint that the library lacks the authority to advance a controversial proposal that will alter the ornate Main Reading ...

The idea of speaking to members of Congress may evoke images of idealistic, Jimmy Stewart–style theatrics, long bus trips to Capitol Hill, and frustrating—even fruitless—time spent away from library ...

THE legislative history of the Library of Congress, although not a brief, is a meagre one. It was established in the year that witnessed the removal of the capital to Washington ; but from 1802, when ...