Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress The First Library of Congress When the capital of the United States was in New York City and Philadelphia, members of Congress had little trouble finding a library to help with research. That was not the case when the capital moved to Washington...
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by members of Congress via its version of (an enhanced) reference desk, theCongressional Research Service. (The library is open to the public for research, although only members of Congress, Congressional staff, and library employees may borrow books and materials for use outside of the library...
International Children's Digital Library http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ A Library for the World's Children English Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html A new lab exploring the future of libraries — because their future is open. English Library of Congress Twitter Archive htt...
John Adams was a Boston lawyer, member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence, member of congress, President of the United States, and much more. He was a student of law and a lawmaker, while George Washington was a Virginia planter who became Commander in Chief of th...
Library of Congress, the de facto national library of the United States and the largest library in the world. The Library of Congress serves members, committees, and staff of the U.S. Congress, other government agencies, libraries throughout the country
facility to any library wishing to participate, and the Bibliographic Services Division and itspredecessor, the British National Bibliography, cooperated closely with the U.S. Library of Congress in the Project forMachine-Readable Cataloging(MARC), which provides on-line access to the catalogs of the...
Call Congress! Rally in the streets! Get up, get angry and get involved, but remember that change requires more than just one phone call or attending one rally! The surveillance currently being conducted by the NSA has been going on for several years now and it has relied on the collusion...
rich and fascinating adventure of the imagination has been reduced to a sterile set of “facts” to be memorized and procedures to be followed. In place of a simple and natural question about shapes, and a creative and rewarding process of invention and discovery, students are treated to...
Government debt is now $34 Trillion, a number that we cannot afford. Debt service is now rising at a rate that it will soon overwhelm the budget, which is why the big fights in Congress. We are rapidly reaching the break point which will show up when the primary dealers find it too ...