What is a collection?
A collection is a group of Library materials organized, archived, and preserved together by format (for example, manuscripts, photographs, books, maps, or motion pictures), by subject matter, and/or by the name of the person or persons who first created or assembled the items or donated them to the Library of Congress. Most American Memory collections mirror the original Library collections from which they were digitized, but a few bring together in digital form materials from several different physical collections within the Library.
