In January, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will retire after a long career in public service. He’s held a post that carries tremendous influence: running the world’s largest traditional ...

In 2012, Nicole Saylor, head of archives at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, had a revelation while attending an annual meeting of the American Folklore Society. Some of the junior ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

WASHINGTON — The legacy of the famed astrobiologist and science communicator Carl Sagan is now available to people around the world. The new Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan ...

The platform gets its federal library designation as part of its mission to keep knowledge accessible for all, says founder Brewster Kahle. The Internet Archive is now a federal depository library, ...

In a month or six, the United States will get its first new Librarian of Congress in nearly three decades. The current librarian, James Billington, has held the title since his appointment by ...