Chronicling America:
Reading Room Collections:
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Chronicling America, presented by the National Digital Newspaper Program. Jointly sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. |
Newspaper Reading Room Research Orientation
Location:
101 Independence Ave. SE
Madison Building, LM-133
Washington, DC 20540-4760
202-707-5690
or leave a message at
202-707-5691
About the reading room
Map showing location
Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday:
8:30am - 9:30pm
(Request materials until 7:30pm)
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday:
8:30am - 5:00pm
(Request materials until 4pm)
Closed Sundays &
Federal Holidays
Ask a
Librarian
Ask reference staff about newspaper and current
periodical collections. |
The Serial &Government
Publications Division maintains one of the most extensive
newspaper collections in the world. It is exceptionally strong in US
newspapers, with 9,000 titles covering
the past three centuries. With over 25,000 non-US titles, it is the largest collection
of overseas newspapers in the world. Beyond its newspaper holdings, the
Division also has extensive collections of current periodicals (70,000
titles) comic
books (6,000 titles) and government publications (1 million items).
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