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Websites guide searchers in the Library of Congress

Search strategies for materials in the Library of Congress

Library of Congress website: www.loc.gov

Library

of Congress Online Catalog, containing 12 million bibliographic records

for books, serials, manuscripts, music and more: catalog.loc.gov/

Alternative Interface for Online Catalog, which works well for text-only browsers: www.loc.gov/z3950/

Prints

and Photographs Online Catalog, bibliographic records and thumbnail

images for nearly half of the Library's pictorial collection: www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

Encoded

Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids, a searchable set of archival

finding aids for collections in many of the Library's reading rooms: www.loc.gov/rr/ead/

Ask a Librarian: www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/

Interlibrary Loan: www.loc.gov/rr/loan/

American Memory, a gateway to the Library's more than 9 million digitized historical materials: memory.loc.gov/ammem