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African and Middle Eastern Reading Room The African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) was created in 1978 as part of a general Library of Congress reorganization. For AMED it combined three sections -- African, Hebraic, and Near East,... -
American Folklife Center The American Folklife Center (AFC) documents and shares the many expressions of human experience to inspire, revitalize, and perpetuate living cultural traditions. Designated by the U.S. Congress as the national center for... -
Asian Reading Room Located on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the Asian Reading Room is where the public and scholars alike may freely access more than 4 million physical items that make... -
Business Reference Services - Science, Technology & Business Division In the Business Reference Services Reading Room all major business subjects are covered, including industry information, commerce, statistics, banking, insurance, economics, finance, investment, marketing, and more. The reading room is divided into... -
European Reading Room The European Research Center should be the starting point for readers and researchers whose interest relates to European countries, including the Russian-speaking areas of Asia, but excluding Spain, Portugal, and the British... -
General Collections The Library’s collections of books and pamphlets, organized according to the familiar Library of Congress Classification Scheme, are known as the classified or general collections. The general collections include books, pamphlets, and... -
Geography and Map Reading Room The Geography and Map Division (G&M) of the Library of Congress provides cartographic and geographic information for all parts of the world: to Congress, federal agencies, state and local governments, the scholarly... -
Hispanic Reading Room The Hispanic Reading Room is an important access point at the Library of Congress for researchers working on the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain and Portugal; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and... -
Law Library of Congress The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide authoritative legal research, reference and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law. To... -
Local History and Genealogy Reading Room The Library of Congress has one of the world's premier collections of U.S. and foreign genealogical and local historical publications. The Library's genealogy collection began as early as 1815 with the purchase... -
Main Reading Room The Main Reading Room is one the principal reference and book service points for the Library's general collections. Located in room LJ 100 on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building,... -
Manuscript Reading Room The Manuscript Division seeks to acquire, preserve, and make available for research use personal papers and organizational records documenting the scope and diversity of the American experience. With more than twelve thousand... -
Microform Reading Room The Library of Congress has actively acquired microforms since the early 1940s. A separate reading room was established in 1953 for the custody and service of the Library's general microform collection. In... -
Motion Picture and Television Reading Room The Library of Congress began collecting motion pictures in 1893 when Thomas Edison and his brilliant assistant W.K.L. Dickson deposited the Edison Kinetoscopic Records for copyright. However, because of the difficulty of... -
Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room The Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room is the gateway to the newspaper, comic book, current periodicals, and government document collections held by the Serial and Government Publications Division. The Division holds... -
Performing Arts Reading Room The Performing Arts Reading Room is the access point for the vast and diverse collections in the custody of the Music Division at the Library of Congress. Numbering over 25 million items... -
Prints and Photographs Reading Room Unique in their scope and richness, the picture collections number more than 14 million images. These include photographs, historical prints, posters, cartoons, documentary drawings, fine prints, and architectural and engineering designs. While... -
Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room The unique materials of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, now totaling over 800,000 items, include books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. At the... -
Recorded Sound Research Center The Recorded Sound Research Center provides access to the commercial and archival audio holdings of the Library of Congress. The Library's audio collections are now the largest in the United States and... -
Science Reference Services - Science, Technology & Business Division Science Reference Services (part of the Science, Business, and Technology Division) is the principal location for research in the areas of science, technology, technical reports, and standards.