The library's first responsibility is service to Congress. One department, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), operates exclusively for the legislative branch of the government. The CRS provides objective, nonpartisan research, analysis, and information to assist Congress in its legislative, oversi...
The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government fromPhiladelphiato the new capital city ofWashington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such...
Originally primarily intended to serve the legislative branch of the government, it is now open to the public as a reference library and sends out many books through an interlibrary loan system. It has African and Middle Eastern, Asian, European, and Hispanic divisions; a law library; and exce...
The Library of Congress is an open national library which requires no credentials for entry or enjoyment. Taking all knowledge for its province and a whole nation as its audience, it is a symbol and an in- strument of a free people and their self-government. As this documentary history ...
Toner American and Medical Library (24,000 volumes; 1892) made it one of the world's great libraries. Originally primarily intended to serve the legislative branch of the government, it is now open to the public as a reference library and sends out many books through an interlibrary loan ...
Government RoleInformation SystemsLegislationLibrary CooperationLibrary PlanningLibrary ServicesNational LibrariesThis report presents a statement of the Library of Congress's view of its position as the National Library of the United States. The Library has developed from a small parliamentary library to ...
Labels:library of congress,open data Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 The New OCLC Policy and Federal Libraries This blog post attempts to show that the newOCLC Policy(bloggedhere) effectively anulls a longstanding principle of US law, that work performed by government officials and employees is fo...
Library of CongressWelcome Message from the Librarian of Congress The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and ...
Proceedings of the First International Workshop and Congress on eMaintenance (Eds: U.Kumar, R.Karim and A. Parida), June 22 – 24, held in Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Anicic D,, P.Fodor, S.Rudolph, R.Stühmer,N.Stojanovic und R.Studer (2010): “A Rule-Based Language ...
Library of Congress(United States,Washington,D.C.)Founded in 1800 with the private collection of Thomas Jefferson,the Library of Congress is in effect the USA’s National Library.It receives two copies of everything published in the United States.The Library of Congress wag burned by the ...