The Library of Congress Scholarship is a prestigious scheme run jointly between the AHRC and the ESRC. The scheme offers the chance for AHRC/ESRC funded doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and research assistants to access the internationally renowned research collection at the Library of Congress. To help potential applicants better understand the experience of working at the Library of Congress as an AHRC funded Kluge scholar Mat Francis, currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Leeds, talks about his time there in Spring 2009.