SPRINGFIELD -- The former Librarian of Congress who has ties to central Illinois and was abruptly dismissed by President Donald Trump in May has a new appointment. Carla Hayden is joining the Andrew W ...

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost ...

Carla Hayden, who started at the Chicago Public Library before going on to head the Library of Congress, was fired Thursday. Trump replaces longtime Librarian of Congress with top Justice ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dr. Carla ... When Hayden first got the job in 2016, appointed by then-President Barack Obama, her main task was bringing the Library of Congress into the 21st century and ...

News about the Library of Congress, ... Elton John and the rock band Chicago, are among the 25 selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. By Derrick Bryson Taylor .

Washington's Library of Congress has been around since 1800. ... According to her profile on the Library of Congress website on May 9, she started her career in 1979 at the Chicago Public Library.

The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all." Hayden was nominated to her position by then-President Barack Obama in 2016, and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress, offering the public a chance to see ...