The national library of the US, the Library of Congress is the world’s largest. Its three buildings hold some 100 million items—including the papers of 23 US pr
Reading-Room Plan at Library of Congress Will Hurt Service, Critics SayBy Jennifer HowardChronicle of Higher Education
The Reading Room in the rotunda of the Library of Congress building, 1901. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the world's largest library, with nearly 110 million items in almost every language and format stored on 532 miles of bookshelves. Its co...
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
The Library of Congress has acquiredtheCodex Quetzalecatzin, an extremely rare 1593 Mesoamerican indigenous manuscript that depicts, using Nahuatl hieroglyphics and pre-contact illustrative conventions as well as Latin characters, the lands and genealogy of the de Leon family.John Hessler’s blog post...
Retrieve a specific item from the Library of Congress. Parameters 展開表格 NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription ID identifier True string The identifier. Returns 展開表格 NamePathTypeDescription APA cite_this.apa string The APA format. Chicago cite_this.chicago string The Chicago format. MLA cite_this....
The library’s impact on librarianship has always been of the highest value. Through theLibrary of Congress Classification, the printed catalog cards, and MARC (see below Technical services:Cataloging), the library’s practices are widely followed. Its last great printed product was the 754-volume...
The National Screening Room is a project of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. The goal of this digital collection is to present to the widest audience possible movies from the Library’s extensive holdings, offering a broad range of historical and cultural documents...
The British Library was created by Act of Parliament in 1972. Previously, the library had teen putt of the British Museum, where the famous circular reading room had accommodated researchers including Karl Mars, who worked on 'Das Kapital' there, as well as Oscar Wilde and...
And then came the sensitive and remarkable insights and editing skills of Brandy Bruce who took over and shaped my flimsy initial manuscript into the sharp, read- able (I hope) book that I believe it has become. In the background were other Focus staff members, such as Nancy Shane, Brock...