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- The collection of more than 162 million items includes: more than 38.6 million cataloged books and other print materials, in 470 languages; more than 70 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.
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In fiscal year 2022 (October 2021 to September 2022), the Library of Congress ... Responded to more than 481,000 reference requests from Congress, the public and other federal agencies, including the direct use of Congressional Research Service reports;
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Feb 11, 2009 · If you digitized all of the books in the Library of Congress, you’d get about 10 terabytes of data. So, on Yahoo! alone, people consume more than two Libraries of Congress a day. HOWEVER, data at the Library of Congress are organized, whereas Internet data is scattered.
Mar 20, 2024 · The first purchase was a collection of 740 books and 30 maps, ordered from London. Most of the books were about law, given Congress’s legislative role, and the rest covered a variety of...
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The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States—and extensive materials from around the world—both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. It is the nation’s library, containing more than 162 million items in n...
The collection of more than 162 million items includes: 1. more than 38.6 million cataloged books and other print materials, in 470 languages; 2. more than 70 million manuscripts; 3. the largest rare book collection in North America; 4. the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.
Congress itself, the general public and other federal agencies. They made more than 1 million reference requests in the most recent fiscal year.Creators of intellectual property, who registered 443,812 claims to copyright during that period through its U.S. Copyright Office.Blind and physically handicapped Americans, who received nearly 22 million copies of Braille and recorded books and magazines to more than 862,000 reader accounts.Researchers in the Library’s reading rooms—anyone over the age of 16 can use these, after obtaining an easy-to-get reader card—who accessed nearly 900,000 items in the most recent fiscal year.That the Library is the home of the U.S. Poet Laureate, the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the Prize for American Fiction and the Library of Congress Literacy Awards?That Library of Congress reference staff provide direct research help to the public through its Ask-A-Librarian service, available at loc.gov/rr/askalib/?That the Library offers resources for teachers nationwide to help build its online “primary source” materials into valuable curriculum through its “Teaching With Primary Sources” program?That the Library hosts the National Book Festival each year in Washington, D.C.?The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials. The Online Catalog also displays searching aids for users, such as cross-references and scope notes.
The collections of the Library of Congress include more than 32 million catalogued books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 61 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection [76] in North America, including the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, a Gutenberg Bible (originating from the Saint Blaise Abbey ...
No. While the Library of Congress collections contain over 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources, the online catalog contains 17 million records describing these collections.
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