For years, if you wanted to access the Library of Congress’s ornate main reading room, you first needed to flash a photo ID library card. But starting on April 11 through September, the library will ...

The Columbus Metropolitan Library opens its new 10,000-square-foot Marion-Franklin Branch, offering expanded community spaces ...

Visitors take pictures in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building on Tuesday as part of a program that opens it to the public. The room, which is usually reserved ...

The inspector general at the Library of Congress is reviewing a whistleblower complaint that the library lacks the authority to advance a controversial proposal that will alter the ornate Main Reading ...

Starting this week, visitors to the Library of Congress in D.C. will get a rare opportunity to experience its grand Main Reading Room. Previously, this area of the Library of Congress was reserved for ...

A controversial change proposed as part of a plan to make the Library of Congress more accessible and exciting to tourists is being shelved. The idea was to add a circular glass window called an ...

Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress, was dismissed by the Trump administration on Thursday. No reason has been given. Appointed in 2016 by Barack Obama, she was the first woman and first ...