>> Welcome to the Newspaper and
Current Periodical Reading Room.
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>> The Reading Room
serves as a gateway
to one of the largest
and most comprehensive
collections of newspapers
in the world,
as well as recently
published scholarly journals,
popular magazines,
government publications
and United Nations documents.
Special collections
available here include
18th century newspapers, which
document the emergence of an
American press and the
development of the United States
from a colony to a republic.
Our Historic Events newspaper
collection contains news
coverage of significant events
in U.S. and world history
from 1801 to present day.
Notable celebrations,
political events,
natural disasters, inventions
and technological advances
and more are represented
in the collection.
In our Reading Room,
researchers can also find
the largest publicly available
comic book collection,
which includes over 12,000 U.S.
and foreign titles,
totaling more than
140,000 issues.
The collection is
most comprehensive
from the mid 1940s on.
However many titles date
back to the 1930s.
Friendly librarians
can also assist you
in accessing digital materials,
including dozens of digital
newspaper databases
and the Chronicling America
Database, a freely available
online resource that features
millions of pages
of digitized
historic newspapers.
The reading room is open
Monday through Saturday
with evening hours,
Monday through Thursday.
Anyone 16 or older with a photo
ID can get a free reader
identification card and
use the reading rooms.
But you don't need to visit us
in person to make use of our
collections or get
help with your research.
Write to our reference
librarians at ask.loc.gov
or give us a call at
(202) 707-5690.
You can also live chat with a
librarian during select hours.
Reference librarians can assist
you with locating and confirming
the availability of materials,
planning your research,
placing requests and more.
We hope to see you soon,
online or in person
in the Newspaper and Current
Periodical Reading Room.