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, ...
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Library of Congress People In Focus ACLU sues Library of Congress in workplace speech case January 15, 2010 by RoryLitwin Colonel Morris Davis was fired from his job at the Congressional Research Service for opinion pieces he wrote about the military commissions system (he is the former chief...
Library of Congress.I went to Georgetown, but apart from the Woodstock Theological Library in the basement, it was only so-so and needed more. The LC—arguably the greatest library in the world—was my library and, really, my university too. ...
Library of Congress Founded The story of the Library of Congress began in 1800, when PresidentJohn Adamsapproved a congressional act that moved the national capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. As part of that bill, a sum of $5,000 was earmarked for books intended for use by the...
John D. Knowlton, the Manuscript Division's specialist in Library of Congress History and Archives enthusiastically shared his knowledge of the archives and their organization. August A. Imholtz, Jr. of Congressional Information Service, Inc., supported the project at every turn. Several specialists...
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 manuscripts in its collections.The Library's mission is to support the...
As perhaps the most multifarious and well-documented example of nineteenth-century eclectic architecture in the United States, the Library of Congress warrants this effort to properly situate the building and its architects inside our cultural history....
the Library's holdings ofmanuscripts, prints and drawings, and maps of theRevolutionary period; the massive bibliography of thesecondary literature of the period, RevolutionaryAmerica, 1763-1789; and the symposia series.After a luncheon in the Whittall Pavilion, at whichthe Librarian of Congress, L...
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