For Internet Archive fans, a group that includes longtime Internet users, researchers, students, historians, lawyers, and the ...

In January, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will retire after a long career in public service. He’s held a post that carries tremendous influence: running the world’s largest traditional ...

The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, has crunched the numbers on the web’s most commonly used memes. For those uninitiated with the meanings of these meme templates, the Library ...

The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act. I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public ...

In 2012, Nicole Saylor, head of archives at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, had a revelation while attending an annual meeting of the American Folklore Society. Some of the junior ...

If you had the chance to see Thomas Jefferson's hand-edited draft of the Declaration of Independence up close and personal, how much do you think you could take away from the experience? Simply ...

In a month or six, the United States will get its first new Librarian of Congress in nearly three decades. The current librarian, James Billington, has held the title since his appointment by ...

The Internet Archive is an online digital library based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1996 with the stated mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” The archive enables ...

"We survived… but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars, also noting, "the world became ...