CDs may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of the Library of Congress, but it houses more than 500,000. The extensive collection includes everything from music to maps and labs ...

The Library of Congress, usually in the business of preserving media, is now embarking on a program to destroy optical disks. And if you donate your old CD collection, the institution will wreck all ...

If you've tried listening to any of your old CDs lately, if you even own them anymore, you may have noticed they won't play. That's what happened to mine, anyway. CD players have long since given up ...