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Online Catalogs |
The
Library of Congress Online Catalog
|
The Library's main online
catalog, containing 12 million bibliographic records for books, serials,
manuscripts, music, and more... |
Alternative
Interface for the Online Catalog |
A simple
interface to the Library's Online Catalog, using a Z39.50 gateway.
No holdings information is available. Note: This interface works
well for text-only browsers |
Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) |
This online catalog
contains bibliographic records and thumbnail images for nearly half
of the Library's pictorial collections -- 300,000 records representing
over five million items. |
Sound
Online Inventory & Catalog (SONIC)
|
350,000 bibliographic
records for recordings of music and the spoken word, representing
a portion of the Library's 78 rpm discs, nearly all the 45 rpm discs,
cassettes, and more... |
National
Library Service
(NLS) for the Blind |
An online catalog of braille and audio
books produced by NLS, and books produced by cooperating network libraries
in the US and abroad. Note: To order materials found here, contact
the cooperating network library from which you receive your library
service. |
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late evening/early morning Eastern Time).
Search Other Library of Congress Web Databases |
American Memory Historical Collections
|
More than 7 million digital items from the Library's historical
collections relating to the history and culture of the United States.
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THOMAS
(Legislative Information) |
Access to current bill summaries, status
and text, Public Laws, the Congressional Record, Committee Reports
and Summaries of Congressional Activity. |
International
Horizons |
Digital collections
from around the world (currently cooperative projects from Russia
and Spain). |
Copyright
Records |
Search by selecting
one of three databases containing records of copyright registrations
and ownership documents since 1978. |
Global Legal Information
Network (GLIN)
|
A searchable database of laws, regulations
and other complementary legal sources contributed by member nations.
Abstracts are available to all, but full-text is restricted to members
only. |
Country
Studies / Area Handbooks |
Description and analysis
of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and
national security systems and institutions of 101 countries and regions
around the world. |
Handbook
of Latin
American Studies |
Bibliography on Latin America consisting
of works selected and annotated by scholars. Alternates annually between
the social sciences and the humanities. |
POW/MIA Database
|
An index of documents
pertaining to U.S. military personnel listed as unaccounted for in
Southeast Asia (Vietnam) as of December 1991. |
US-Russia
Joint Commission Documents Database |
Mainly translations of Russian-language
documents retrieved from various archives in the Russian Federation
pertaining to American personnel missing from World War II to the
present. |
EAD
Finding Aids |
A searchable set of
finding aids for collections in the Folklife, Geography & Map,
Manuscript, Performing Arts, Prints & Photographs, Rare Book and
Recorded Sound reading rooms. |
Library
of Congress Thesauri |
A collection of four searchable thesauri
for use with graphic and legislative materials (Thesaurus for
Graphic Materials I and II, Legislative Indexing Vocabulary,
and the GLIN Thesaurus). |
Science
Tracer Bullets |
An informal series of
literature guides to published materials on a variety of scientific
and technological topics and issues of current and emerging interest.
|
Cold
Regions Bibliography
|
221,000 entries, many with accompanying
abstracts, comprising 40 years of research on the science and technology
of the world's cold regions. |
Korean
Bibliography
|
A searchable bibliography
of nearly 5000 books about Korea (in English) held by the Library
of Congress. Subject headings have been added by the Library. |
Today
in History Archives
|
A searchable archive of the complete 365
days of the Library's "Today in History" site. It is also possible
to browse by day or month. |