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      • Use the online catalog to search the Library's collections by keyword or browse materials by subject, title, author & more. While much of our content is available in digital format, a majority of the collections have not yet been digitized. Use finding aids to discover the rich content within our thousands of unique collections.
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  2. Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films. View all digital collections

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  3. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

  4. Descriptions of Library of Congress collections can be searched with other Library materials in the LC Catalog. Some older finding aids are currently available only as online text documents linked from Research Center web pages.

  5. The Library of Congress Web Archives are composed of sites selected by subject specialists to represent web-based information on a designated topic. It is part of a continuing effort by the Library to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials for researchers today and in the future.

  6. Research guides to the Library's collections, as well as subject guides prepared by Library of Congress staff, are listed below. More online guides covering other Library of Congress collections are available via the LC Bibliographies, Research Guides and Finding Aids page.

  7. Most of the library's general collection of books and journals are in the closed stacks of the Jefferson and Adams Buildings; specialized collections of books and other materials are in closed stacks in all three main library buildings, or are stored off-site.

  8. Librarians provide onsite reference service in the Library's Main Reading Room—the principal point for gaining access to the general collections of books and bound periodicals—as well as online service through Ask a Librarian.