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In 1977, Librarian of Congress Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin founded the Library of Congress's Center for the Book, which was established by Congress in public law 95-129 to promote books, reading, literacy and libraries, as well as the scholarly study of books.
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled [1] (NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials such as books and magazines circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States and American citizens living abroad by postage-free mail and online download. The program is sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Washington borrwed the book when the library was sharing a building federal government. Staff discovered the book was missing in 2010 after conducting an inventory of books in the library's 1789-1792 ledger, [43] which had itself been missing until 1934. [44] Overdue fines woud theoretically amount to $300,000.
Congress passed in 1925 an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board to accept donations and endowments, giving the library a role as a patron of the arts. The library received donations and endowments by such prominent wealthy individuals as John D. Rockefeller , James B. Wilbur, and Archer M. Huntington .
The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired. [1] [2] The program has included audio recordings of books since 1934 and digital book efforts began ...
The National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is a project by the United States Library of Congress to assemble a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. The NDLP brought online 24 million books and documents from the Library of Congress and other research ...
Church collections of books used by the public served as early versions of libraries in New England around the 18th century. One such example is the Kings Chapel Library in Boston, which was founded in 1698 with book donations from the Bishop of London. [1] Reverend Thomas Bray was instrumental in the establishment of libraries for public use.
National Book Festival 2019 National Book Festival 2009. The National Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Washington, D.C. in the United States; it is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, and was founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001.