Explore the library of congress (LoC): A collection analysis

In contemporary knowledge based society the novel developments mainly triggered by the advancement in information and communication technologies intensely influenced the way of accessing, preserving, conserving, and information, and thereby paved the innovative way for archiving information resources through a digital platform. In this milieu, the current study attempts to analyze the collection archived by the Library of Congress to highlight its varied features based on chosen parameters. The analysis divulges that the Library of Congress attempts to archive a wide variety of information resources ranging from Audio collection to periodicals covering a wide range of time-periods. However, the geographical distribution of collection reveals that the United States emerges as a predominant location with English as the most preferred language.