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On the Library of Congress’s map blog,World’s Revealed,Julie Stoner takes a look at a rather unusual example of a bird’s-eye (or panoramic) city map. “The Geography and Map Division has over1,700 of these beautiful panoramic maps in the collection, but one item stands out above al...
of the small congressional library. The first major book collection acquired by Congress was the personal library of former presidentThomas Jefferson, purchased in 1815 at a cost of $23,950. In 1851 a second fire destroyed two-thirds of the library's accumulated holdings of 35,000 volumes, ...
Concordia is a platform developed by the Library of Congress (LOC) for crowdsourcing transcription and tagging of text in digitized images with the dual goals of collection enhancement and public engagement. Concordia is a user-centered project centering the principles of trust and approachability.Read...
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html Content provider: Library of Congress Description: The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog contains roughly 75 percent of the collection of the library's Prints and Photographs Division. Over 1 ...
Jefferson felt that all subjects should be part of any library for Congress. He said I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection; there is, in fact, no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refe...
I.阅读理解The Library of Congress is the research centre of the United States Congress. It has books, recordings,photographs and newspapers. The library also has maps,sheet music and even baseball cards. The library was created more than 200 years ago as a place where members of Congress coul...
This paper offers an overview of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and its efforts to digitise the collection. The number of hard copy maps is huge: over 5.5 million most of them un-catalogued. New maps continue to be added to the collection some in new digital formats. ...
The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone, anyw...
” says Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. “It is a treasure chest, filled with limitless information and services, ready to explore and amaze if you open it up. The new visual identity is bold, contemporary and embodies the Library’s global scale in making the collection accessible...