Audio Visual Conservation
Audio-Visual Conservation at the Library of Congress Packard Campus. Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia, the Library''s Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center provides...
The Center for the Book
Promoting books, reading, libraries & literacy through its national center in Washington & its affiliated centers across the country.
Cooperative Online Serials Program
An authoritative source for bibliographic records, documentation, and training materials for serials cataloging.
Copyright Royalty Board
Overseeing statutory licenses of copyright law, setting rates & determining distribution of royalties.
Digital Collections Management
In order to promote and support the responsible and trustworthy management of the Library’s vast digital collections, the Digital Collections and Management Services (DCMS) Division of the Library of Congress works to...
Digital Preservation
Keeping & maintaining new digital media: standards & best practices, tools & services, national partnerships & personal preservation.
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education
The Library of Congress and its digital preservation partners from the federal, library, creative, publishing, technology, and copyright communities are working to develop a national strategy to collect, archive, and preserve digital...
FEDLINK
Serving federal libraries & information centers as their purchasing, training & resource-sharing consortium.
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
The John W. Kluge Center brings together the world''s best thinkers to contribute to the conversation about the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.
Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commissions for Composers
The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress was established as an expression of Dr. Koussevitzky''s gratitude to the creators to whom we owe our musical heritage and who are...
Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film
In 2019, the Library of Congress partnered with The Better Angels Society and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation to establish an annual award recognizing excellence in American history documentary filmmaking in the...
Library of Congress Literacy Awards
Through the generosity of David M. Rubenstein, the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program honors organizations that have made outstanding contributions to increasing literacy in the United States or abroad. The awards...
Monographic Bibliographic Record Cooperative Program
BIBCO''s primary mission is to increase the timely availability of high-quality catalog records for monographs. The program seeks growth and diversity among libraries that contribute to the pool of BIBCO records. Participants...
Name Authority Cooperative Program
Through this program, participants contribute authority records for personal, corporate, and jurisdictional names, uniform titles, and series to the LC/NACO Authority File. Membership in NACO is open to individual institutions willing to...
National Book Festival
The Library of Congress National Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together best-selling authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings and other activities....
National Digital Stewardship Alliance
The Library of Congress and its digital preservation partners from the federal, library, creative, publishing, technology, and copyright communities are working to develop a national strategy to collect, archive, and preserve digital...
National Digital Stewardship Residency
The Library of Congress and its digital preservation partners from the federal, library, creative, publishing, technology, and copyright communities are working to develop a national strategy to collect, archive, and preserve digital...
National Film Preservation Board
Established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, the National Film Preservation Board works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America''s film heritage, including: advising the Librarian...
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
NLS is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed...
National Recording Preservation Board
Each year since 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) and members of the public have nominated recordings to the National Recording Registry. The depth and breadth of nominations received highlights the...
National Recording Preservation Plan
The National Recording Preservation Plan has been devised to provide a blueprint to "implement a comprehensive national sound recording preservation program," as mandated in the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
The mission of the NUCMC program is to provide and promote bibliographic access to the nation''s documentary heritage. This mission is realized by NUCMC production of cataloging describing archival and manuscript collections...
Poetry & Literature
The Library of Congress promotes poetry and literature year-round through our online and in-person programs, our honors and prizes, and our ambassadors.
Program for Cooperative Cataloging
The PCC is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world.
Subject Authority Cooperative Program
The Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) enables member institutions to submit subject heading proposals for inclusion in Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), and classification number proposals for inclusion in Library of...
Teachers
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library''s vast digital collections in their teaching.
Veterans History Project
Collecting, preserving & presenting the personal accounts of American war veterans.
Web Archiving
The Library of Congress Web Archive manages, preserves, and provides access to archived web content selected by subject experts from across the Library, so that it will be available for researchers today...
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other important cultural documents from all countries and cultures, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.