Does the Library make the full text of books available on its Web site?
Except for very rare instances, full-text books cannot be found on the Library’s Web site. Full-text books that are available tend to be older publications published prior to 1923 that are no longer under U.S. copyright protection. Academic textbooks and recent works of fiction cannot be found on the Library’s Web site, and recent nonfiction on the site is limited to Library of Congress publications such as annual reports, illustrated collection guides, Federal Research Division country studies, and a history of the Library of Congress. If you want to obtain a recent work of fiction or nonfiction not available through your local library, you should contact your library and ask staff there to place an interlibrary loan request for the book with another library. Descriptions of the various areas of the Library’s Web site where full-text books can be found, and tips for accessing them (some technical in nature), are provided below. Again, the books available through the resources below re
