Library of Congress launches internal probe of controversial remodel. A whistleblower complaint challenges proposed changes to the historic Main Reading Room, and the library takes issue with its ...

The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, and the national library of the United States. Its three buildings hold some 100 million items—including the papers of 23 US presidents ...

Preservationists say Library of Congress makeover plan is ‘vandalism’ The library’s Main Reading Room, included in a $60 million renovation of the Thomas Jefferson Building, lands on the D.C ...

In addition, visitors can access the room on Thursday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of the LOC’s Live at the Library events, a weekly series that started last May.. Located on the first floor of ...

Under the dome of the Main Reading Room — as with the Capitol Rotunda — the demand to live up to the national ancestors is almost palpable. ... take a look inside the Library of Congress.

The reading room is the most beautiful place in Washington to work, read, research, or just catch up on e-mail. And you don’t need to be an academic or congressional staffer. A library-issued photo ID ...

The goal was to allow visitors to look up through the oculus at the Main Reading Room’s beautiful dome, from a new orientation center to be built below the room. More D.C. News More Local News ...

Check out the U.S. Capitol and the Library of Congress is ranked #25 out of 41 things to do in Washington, ... not to mention an iconic cast-iron dome added to the structure in 1868.

Image courtesy Library of Congress Thad Heckman won the 2011 Holland Prize for his HABS measured drawing of the Richard Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois.