Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received an unexpected email on May 8, 2025. “Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform ...

Every story was different- you just never knew what the story was.” Past the elevator on the second floor, just next to the ...

The author and translator aims to translate poetry from other languages during his time as a Poet Laureate, he said in a ...

After a stretch of uncertainty in May in which its leader and another director were removed by President Donald Trump, the Library of Congress is again under fire, though this time from congressional ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet ...

Photograph by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. In 1935, Washington philanthropist and renowned musical-soiree host Gertrude Clarke Whittall started the library’s collection of musical instruments by ...

Hayden, both the first woman and first Black person to head the Library of Congress, was fired by President Donald Trump in May. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress, spoke with Ashley Jordan, ...

Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures from The Wizard of Oz donated by composer Harold Arlen's sister-in-law ...

The significance of holding a children s story hour event at the Library of Congress in Washington is not lost on outspoken ...

The Library of Congress on Wednesday pointed to an unspecified "coding error" that led to key parts of the U.S. Constitution being deleted from the Constitution Annotated website. Why it matters: The ...