The former Librarian of Congress abruptly fired by President Donald Trump has found a new position with the country's largest philanthropic supporter of the arts.The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ...

May 9 (UPI) --President Donald Trump has fired the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, attracting swift and staunch condemnation from Democrats.The Trump administration informed Hayden that she ...

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President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on May 9. Since then, he’s announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will assume the role of acting librarian of ...

Most Americans probably weren’t aware that James H. Billington, who had served as Librarian of Congress for the past 28 years, resigned his position at the venerable institution on September 30.

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

Trump Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Hayden, whose 10-year term was set to expire next year, had come under backlash from a conservative advocacy group.

Hayden was serving a 10-year term as the Librarian of Congress and would have been up for reappointment next year. The library's collection is intended to include the "world's most comprehensive ...

Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th librarian of Congress on Sept. 14, 2016. Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library.

The Library of Congress is not a community lending library. By law, it stocks pretty much every copyrighted book published in the United States. And it doesn’t allow children to access its holdings.