Online Catalogs
and Thesauri
- Library of Congress Online
Catalog
- Four methods are available to search bibliographic information
for the Library's collections.
- Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog
- Provides access to catalog records for a rich cross-section
of Prints & Photographs Division holdings and some visual materials
held in other units of the Library. Digital images accompany
many of the catalog records. Includes cataloging for collections
not so far accessible through the Library of Congress Online
Catalog.
- SONIC:
Sound Online Inventory and Catalog
- SONIC is a database comprised of information about a portion
of the Library's 78 rpm discs, nearly all the 45 rpm discs,
cassettes, as well as several special collections on various
formats. Recordings of music and spoken word are represented
in the database, and include such diverse materials as the Newport
Jazz Festivals, NBC Radio, Meet the Press, and Copyright submissions
on cassette. This database is comprised of some 350,000 bibliographic
records representing roughly 25% of the Library's entire sound
recording holdings.
- Braille/Audio
Materials Online Catalog
- Bibliographic information for publications converted to braille,
a recorded format (such as cassette or flexible disc), large
print, or other special formats held by the Library.
- Library of Congress
Thesauri
- Four Library thesauri are available to browse or search.
- Other Libraries' Catalogs
(Z39.50 Gateway)
- Access to over 300 library online catalogs and databases,
both inside and outside the United States.
- U.S. Copyright Office
Records
- Access to U.S. Copyright Office catalog records dating from
1978 to the present.
Full-text Resources
- American
Memory: Historical Collections
- Browse digitized collections consisting of primary source
and archival materials relating to American culture and history.
- Country
Studies/Area Handbook Program
- Search the full text of handbooks on ninety-one countries.
- Meeting of Frontiers
- Search or browse digitized collections relating to the American
frontier, Alaska, and Siberia.
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Specialized Bibliographies
and Indexes
- Library of Congress
Finding Aids
- Search or browse archival finding aids. These detailed guides
to manuscript and other primary source material at the Library
of Congress use the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard.
- Cold
Regions Bibliography
- Search a bibliographic database of technical document on cold
regions science and technology.
- Handbook of Latin American
Studies (HLAS Online)
- Search this bibliography on Latin America, edited by the Hispanic
Division of the Library of Congress.
- Korean
Bibliography
- Search a bibliography of approximately 4,800 records of books
about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library of Congress.
- Science Tracer Bullets
(SCTB) Online
- A series of bibliographic guides designed to help persons
locate published materials on a particular subject in the field
of science and technology about which they have only a general
knowledge.
- Vietnam
Era POW/MIA Database
- An online index to a microform collection of U.S. Government
documents pertaining to U.S. military personnel killed, missing,
or imprisoned in Southeast Asia during or after the conclusion
of American involvement in the Vietnam Conflict.
Legislative Information and Thesauri
- GLIN: Global Legal
Information Network
- Access to abstracts of national laws from more than 35 contributing
countries (membership required for full-text).
- THOMAS: Legislative
Information
- The full text of bills and resolutions under consideration
in the current and past Congresses.
- Library of Congress
Thesauri
- Four Library thesauri are available to browse or search.
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