Cole, John Y. On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1995.
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Cole, John Y. “Publishing at the Library of Congress: A Brief History”. Publishing Research Quarterly 12, no. Summer (1996): 38-49.
Cole, John Y. “The International Role of the Library of Congress: A Brief History”. Library of Congress Information Bulletin 49, no. January (1990): 15-18; 45.
Cole, John Y. “Chronology and Bibliography of John Y. Cole”. Libraries & The Cultural Record 45, no. 1 (2010): 133-61.
Cole, John Y. America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2017.
Cole, John Y. “The Book Palace of the American People: An Introduction and Reflection”. Library Quarterly 80, no. 4 (2010): 301-10.
Cole, John Y. “The Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815-2005”. Libraries & Culture 40, no. 3 (2005): 385-98.
Cole, John Y. Book Collectors of Stanford: An Eclectic Eight Who Shaped the Stanford University Libraries. Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1991.
Cole, John Y. Capital Libraries & Librarians: A Brief History of the District of Columbia Library Association, 1894-1994. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994.
Cole, John Y. Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.
Cole, John Y. “Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library”. Library of Congress Information Bulletin 50, no. April (1991): 124-30.
Cole, John Y. “The World’s Largest Library: The Library of Congress; A Brief History of the Giant Library”. Herald of Library Science 33, no. July-October (1994): 155-63.
Dain, Phyllis, and John Y. Cole, eds. Libraries and Scholarly Communication in the United States: The Historical Dimension. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Cole, John Y. “Books, Reading, and the Library of Congress in a Changing America”. Libraries & Culture 33, no. 1 (1996): 34-39.
Cole, John Y., ed. Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1997.