This guide along with two other volumes (the Near East Section and The African Section) covers several countries and regions from Southern African to the Maghreb and from the Middle East to Central Asia. The division coordinates and directs the component sections. Each section plays a vital role in the Library’s acquisitions program.

The Geography and Map Division has custody of the bulk of the Library’s cartographic materials.

This guide focuses on a unique strength, the Library’s unparalleled materials on European Americana and American Europeana. The European collections of the Library of Congress are strongest in the humanities and social sciences, with special strengths in language, literature, history, geography, political science, law, the arts, and economics.

This guide offers a glimpse into the Library of Congress Asian collection This guide is divided into sections on “classical” and “modern” Asia.

The Africana collections of the Library of Congress include materials produced over the centuries by peoples living in sub-Saharan Africa and by others inspired by the continent. The Library’s Africana collections reflect the complexities of African societies and the efforts to understand and express the knowledge in many forms. This guide highlights some of these holdings of materials created in Africa or about it.

In On These Walls, the author explores the three distinctive buildings of the Library of Congress: the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. Each structure is not only an architectural marvel but also a work of art, with inscriptions and quotations that reflect the Library's mission to collect and share the knowledge of all civilizations.