Videos

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden testified at an oversight hearing held by the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. She discussed how the Library of Congress (LOC) is creating an all-new…

This Academy Award-winning short documentary takes viewers on a tour through the Library’s reading rooms and facilities, highlighting how the institution benefits the public and scholars…

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter, and other officials testified at a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing on efforts to…

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden testified before the House Appropriations Legislative Branch Subcommittee on the library’s fiscal year 2022 budget request. Topics included how the library…

Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden spoke with Representative Gregg Harper (R-MS). This talk took place at the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival, held at the Mississippi State Capitol in…

Carla Hayden, the new Librarian of Congress and the first woman and African American to hold the position, talked about her new role. The former chief executive of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt…

Carla Hayden, the head of the Library of Congress, testified before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on modernizing the library. She updated committee members on efforts to digitize…

Library of Congress archivist and dance curator Libby Smigel delivered an illustrated talk on how to utilize the library’s resources and collections. Her presentation focused on Fall River…

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talked with journalist Ray Suarez about running the library in the digital age. New York University’s John Brademas Center in Washington, D.C. hosted this…

Panelists talked about the life and career of Librarian of Congress James Billington, who served from 1987-2015.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch held a hearing on the fiscal year 2019 Library of Congress budget request. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden testified about…

Docent Tom Hoban talked about the Library of Congress Jefferson Building, including the designers, construction, and decoration throughout its halls. This was part of U.S. Capitol Historical…

Carla Hayden, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Librarian of Congress, testified at her confirmation hearing. Many questions Ms. Hayden answered concerned the Library of Congress’s…

Carol Highsmith talked about and showed her photography, including some from her current project to photograph each state in the country, as well as her earlier project to photograph the…

C-SPAN’s original feature documentary, The Library of Congress, is a behind-the-scenes look at the national repository, providing the history of the institution, a tour of its iconic Jefferson…

John Cole, co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress, published by Bernan Press, appeared on “The Book Guys” radio show to talk it. The book covers the history of the Library…

Matt Raymond talked about Twitter’s donation of its entire digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress. Highlights of the donated material include the first-ever tweet from…

Librarian of Congress James Billington and other officials talked to reporters about the establishment of the National Recording Preservation Foundation and Board. They also talked about…

John Sellers spoke about a Lincoln Bicentennial exhibit at the Library of Congress that featured a handwritten copy of President Lincoln’s second inaugural address. “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln…

Daniel De Simone and Mark Dimunation were interviewed about the Library of Congress’s efforts to reconstruct President Thomas Jefferson’s library. The Jefferson Library was originally…