io.github.cyanheads/libofcongress-mcp-server
io.github.cyanheads/libofcongress-mcp-serverSearch LOC digital collections, Chronicling America newspapers (full OCR), and LC Subject Headings.
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Search the Library of Congress digital collections by keyword. Optionally filter by material format (photos, maps, newspapers, audio, etc.), date range, subject heading, or geographic location, or sco…
Retrieve the full metadata record for a specific LOC digital item. Returns contributors, subjects, summary, languages, locations, rights information, physical description, call number, original and on…
Search historical newspaper pages in the Chronicling America corpus. Returns matching pages with OCR text excerpts (~500 characters), publication title, date, state, and the page URL needed for libofc…
Retrieve the full OCR text of a specific historical newspaper page along with publication metadata. Pass the url field from a libofcongress_search_newspapers result — do not construct this URL manuall…
Search Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) by keyword. Returns controlled-vocabulary subject labels and their URIs. Use the returned label as the subject filter in libofcongress_search — LCSH …
List and browse Library of Congress curated digital collections. Returns collection names, descriptions, item counts, slugs, and URLs. Optionally filter by keyword. Collections are curated subsets of …
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How to use
Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"io.github.cyanheads/libofcongress-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://libofcongress.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}