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 ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

[Subtitle:] The case is the latest example of efforts by the Trump administration to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government. [First two paragraphs:] The Trump White House ...

In the 100th year of the Mary Couts Burnett Library, three library leaders take a trip down memory lane. If former Library Dean June Koelker could time travel, she’d go back to 1925. That’s the year ...

Two officials at the Justice Department selected by Donald Trump to take on positions at the Library of Congress were turned away from the premises on Monday in what was described to the media as a ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

President Trump unexpectedly fired Library of Congress head Carla Hayden on Thursday in a move that sent Democrats into a frenzy. Hayden — the first woman and black librarian of Congress — received an ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Tribal Librarian Anne Heidemann and Chippewa Tribe member Melissa Isaac speak about Maawn ...

For years I have been fiddling around with organizing my personal collections of books and notes. Folder Structures emerged but were not consistent through media, due to time and the sheer amount of ...

Abstract: This paper presents an automatic document classification system, WebDoc, which classifies Web documents according to the Library of Congress classification scheme. WebDoc constructs a ...