How do chemical reactions help the Library care for our collection of over 3 million books? What role do robots play in providing access to all those books? In partnership with Fizzics Education, join the Education team as they discover the answers to these questions and demonstrate some simple fun science experiments to do at home in this five-part series, Science at the Library. Today we look at Structures! Fizzics Education have a whole range of other free and easy experiments that can be don

Something you may not know about the Library of Congress: The Preservation and Testing Division has labs where staff research how to best support the preservation, interpretation and research of manuscripts, books and other Library materials. They study paper, inks, adhesives, sound recordings, storage conditions, and much, much more! Here, conservation scientist Cindy Connelly Ryan is making reconstructions of historic artists’ colors using recipes from a Revolutionary War-era document held in