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The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.
25 de ene. de 2018 · Library of Congress Founded. The story of the Library of Congress began in 1800, when President John Adams approved a congressional act that moved the national capital from Philadelphia to ...
This introductory essay and the timeline that follows are based on entries in America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress by Library of Congress Historian John Y. Cole, with a Foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden. The volume was published in late 2017 by the Library of Congress in association with D Giles Limited, London.
Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, we are t...
Search and browse the Library of Congress's online catalog of books, journals, e-resources, and more on various topics and subjects.
Browses Library of Congress shelving numbers that do not use the LC classification scheme. Enter call numbers in exact order, beginning with the first element. Enter either a complete shelving number or the first part of the number: microfilm (o) 83/400 (accurately include all words, parentheses, slashes, hyphens, etc.)
Moreover, in 1903 Roosevelt issued an executive order that transferred the records of the Continental Congress and the personal papers of six of the founding fathers to the Library to be “preserved and made more accessible." In 1914, Putnam established the Legislative Reference Service (LRS) as a separate Library department.
