Recently, a middle-aged woman came into the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room of the Library of Congress seeking to locate her father, whom she had never seen. A search through the city directories and telephone books of Greater New […]
About James Sweany
James Sweany has worked at the Library of Congress for 20 years, all in reference services. His career at the Library began in 1989 with the Congressional Research Service. He has also served in the Hispanic Division, the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, and as acting head of the Congressional and Interlibrary Loan Section. James has extensive reference experience with the Library’s microform and machine readable collections. He has been responsible for developing the Library’s American Indian collections, particularly Native American genealogical resources, and serves presently as head of the Library’s Local History & Genealogy Reading Room.