An MCP server for the Library of Congress that enables searching scanned American newspaper pages, searching catalogue items by media type, reading individual records, and listing digital collections, all without requiring an API key or account.
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How we verified
Monitored 2 days · every push re-verified
Who stands behind it
gmail.com (@smeet666) · Ownership Verified
Source: Glama
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Tool annotations
No tools have read-only/destructive annotations
Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.
All four hints declared on every tool
4/4 tools missing one or more hints — search_newspapers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_items (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_item (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +1 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.
For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.
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