Library of Congress federal obligations through FY2026

Why $94,000 is not the Library’s budget

The Library of Congress is a legislative-branch institution whose public identity is collections, copyright, and congressional research. USAspending awarding-agency totals for CGAC 003 in this extract are $94,000 across 68 awards. That figure is not the Library’s full appropriation. Legislative-branch spending often sits partly outside the executive-branch award warehouse that USAspending was built around. Treating 94000 dollars as “what the Library costs” would understate the institution by a wide margin.

Dividing $94,000 by 68 awards yields about $1,382 per award. That is a micro mean: many small instruments, each a rounding error relative to a cabinet department. The packet has no median and no explanation of why so many rows carry so few dollars. The honest statement is the ratio plus the caveat that this CGAC’s USAspending footprint looks incomplete as an operating picture.

Copyright and CRS are not these 68 rows

Copyright registrations, Congressional Research Service reports, and collection-item counts are Library statistics. They are not the 68 USAspending awards. A year with more copyright claims does not automatically change $94,000. A small purchase order can change it with no change in collections.

Staff salaries for librarians, CRS analysts, and copyright examiners generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $94,000 understates the Library’s full operating cost even more than is typical for agencies in this extract. It is complete only as this CGAC’s award ledger in the current warehouse slice.

FY2026 cutoff and legislative-branch coverage

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $94,000 is cumulative through that horizon. If later extracts add previously missing Library awards, the total can jump without any new program. If they do not, the 68-row, 94000-dollar book remains a thin USAspending view of a large institution.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments tagged to awarding agency 003. Readers who need the Library’s enacted appropriation should use legislative-branch budget documents, not this table alone.

CGAC 003

Library of Congress rows in this dataset use awarding-agency code 003. SpendingVault’s /agencies/003/ path is keyed to it. The Government Publishing Office, Architect of the Capitol, and other legislative entities use other codes when they appear. Code 003 is an identifier, not a call number.

State tables on a micro dollar book

The state table for agency 003 attributes 68 awards using USAspending location fields. Because the dollars are small, a state share can look large in percentage terms while remaining a few thousand dollars. That is vendor geography on a thin ledger, not a map of Library collections or of copyright holders.

Open the Library of Congress agency page for the live $94,000 and 68-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 003. Dollar rank among independents will place the Library near the bottom of this extract; that rank measures USAspending coverage, not cultural importance.

Collections, copyright, and a thin CGAC 003 footprint

The Library’s collections, copyright registrations, and Congressional Research Service reports are institutional statistics. They are not the 68 USAspending awards totaling $94,000. A year with more copyright claims does not automatically change 94000 dollars. A small purchase order can change it with no change in collections. Legislative-branch coverage in USAspending can be incomplete relative to the institution’s size.

The micro mean of about $1,382 on 68 awards is the structural fact of this extract: many tiny instruments. State shares can look large in percentage terms while remaining a few thousand dollars. That is vendor geography on a thin ledger, not a map of copyright holders or of collection items.

Librarian, CRS, and copyright-examiner salaries generally never appear among the 68 rows. FY2026 is the cutoff. If later extracts add previously missing Library awards, the total can jump without any new program. Use legislative-branch budget documents for enacted funding. Use the Library agency page for the live USAspending $94,000 and 68-award filters. Outlays are unpublished. Keep CGAC 003 unmerged with other legislative entities.

Copyright registration volume and CRS report counts are Library statistics. They are not the 68 awards totaling $94,000. A year with more registrations does not automatically change 94000 dollars. Legislative-branch coverage in USAspending can miss large operating costs. Readers who need enacted funding should use legislative-branch budget documents and treat this CGAC 003 extract as a thin warehouse slice through FY2026. Use the Library agency page for the live $94,000 and 68-award filters. Outlays are unpublished.

Questions

How much has the Library of Congress obligated on USAspending?

USAspending.gov shows $94,000 in Library of Congress obligations through FY2026 across 68 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 003 is the filter. That total is not the Library’s full appropriation and not a count of collections or copyright registrations. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 003 is the source for the current 68-award book.

Why is the average Library award only about $1,400?

Dividing 94000 dollars by 68 awards yields about $1,382. High count and a tiny dollar total produce a micro mean. The packet has no median. Legislative-branch coverage in USAspending can be incomplete relative to the institution’s size. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 003?

003 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Library of Congress. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/003/. Other legislative-branch entities use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $94,000 the Library of Congress budget?

No. It is the USAspending awarding-agency obligation stock for CGAC 003 through FY2026. Staff pay and most operating costs generally never appear as these 68 awards. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Use legislative-branch budget documents for enacted funding. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.