The Library of Congress doesn’t just exist as a platform of knowledge, but as an expanding organism that has been fed by centuries of political power, copyright bureaucracy, and cultural ambition. Its collection consist of books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, recordings, films, and digital artifacts. Part of this inventory ends up online, which gives the illusion of access, even though what’s published is only a small, curated fracture of the whole body. The reliability of the material seems...