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The digital collections and online resources of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of primary source and educational materials related to the local history for this country.
Books and printed materials about and from Barbados in the Library of Congress collections are vast and filled with treasures. Researchers should visit the Main Reading Room and the Hispanic Reading Room to learn more about these print materials available online that contain significant resources on Barbados.
Stark's History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands by These research guides provide additional digital and print country-specific resources.
The Law Library of Congress includes a vast collection on foreign legal materials, such as Constitutions, Codes, Session laws, Commentaries and indexes to laws, rules and regulations, judicial court decisions and reports, and Legal bibliographies.
Access to legal materials related to Barbados are provided by the Law Library, including:
The Library's Geography and Map Division has custody of the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world with collections numbering over 5 million maps, 100,000 atlases, 8,000 reference works, over 5000 globes and globe gores, 3,000 raised relief models, over 130,000 microfiche/ film, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats. Many of these materials have been digitized and are available online. Materials that have not been digitized are available from the Geography and Map Reading Room.
The Library's Prints and Photographs Division is the repository for a rich collection of prints, photographs, and other visual materials on and about Barbados from significant artists and photographers. Many of these items have been digitized and are available to researchers online. Many other visual materials are available to researchers in the Library's Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
