The Library of Congress has made 25 million digital catalog records available for anyone to use at no charge. The free data set includes records from 1968 to 2014. This is the largest release of ...

Library of Congress Boosts Digital Public Library Database with Historic Maps. By Dian Schaffhauser; 12/05/16; A portal that serves as a search engine into the collections of libraries, museums and ...

Nancy Scola is a reporter covering technology for Politico Pro. James Billington, the current Librarian of Congress, has held the office for nearly three decades, a longer tenure than most Supreme ...

There were 140 million tweets sent each day in February 2011, but more than three times as many - about a half billion - by October 2012. The Library of Congress's tweets are being stored by Gnip ...

An effort by the Library of Congress to archive Twitter posts has amassed more than 170 billion tweets. ... Making such a vast database publicly available is proving to be a challenge unto itself, ...

That April, Twitter and the Library of Congress signed a short agreement—just two pages. In it, Twitter promised to hand over all the tweets posted since the company’s launch in 2006, as well ...

The artwork that once served as a memorial to the movement is being displayed in a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress. So far, 33 pieces are posted.

Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of ...