Columbus Coat of Arms Catalog and Finding Aids There is no
single catalog of the Hispanic collections in the Library of
Congress. The Hispanic Division was realigned in 1944 to
concentrate on acquisitions and reference activities. Custodial
ownership of the Hispanic collections we then held was assigned
to a variety of other divisions within the Library of Congress.
In other words, we now provide a guide to the reader in search
of material throughout the Library of Congress' collections
through a variety of different tools. The main tool for
identifying materials in the Library is the Online Catalog of
the Library. The Library of Congress also provides a means of
searching the collections of other library catalogs through the
Gateway to Library Catalogs. In addition to this, our librarians
have a wide variety of tools, both online and in book form that
can be used in the Library of Congress to locate a variety of
material that may be available throughout the world. For
example, the existence of articles relat