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During his tenure at the Library of Congress, Billington doubled the size of the Library's traditional analog collections, from 85.5 million items in 1987 to more than 160 million items in 2014. [9] He led the acquisition of Lafayette's previously inaccessible papers in 1996 from Château de la Grange-Bléneau in France.
The Kluge Center was founded in 2000 with a gift to the Library of Congress by philanthropist John W. Kluge.The gift was announced on October 5, 2000, in a joint press conference by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), then Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California), then Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and James H. Billington, then the ...
From 1969 to 1988, the campus was a high-security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board.With the approval of the United States Congress in 1997, it was purchased by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond via a $5.5 million grant, done on behalf of the Library of Congress.
The Fort Worth city council will vote Tuesday on whether to approve the lease of the ground floor of 100 Main St. right across from the Tarrant County Courthouse.
The Worth Heights neighborhood is unhappy that this branch of the Fort Worth library system was converted to a History Center. This Fort Worth library was a place of community, learning, family ...
Fort Worth could finally be getting a fully functioning downtown library branch. The City Council will vote on whether to purchase the the Center for Transforming Lives building at 512 W.
The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (Library of Congress, 2000) Cole, John Young. Jefferson's legacy: a brief history of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1993) Cole, John Young. "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815–2005." Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385–398. in Project MUSE
Laura Bush, founder and Honorary Chair of the National Book Festival 2001-2008, honored in 2008 by Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress. The first National Book Festival took place on September 8, 2001, at the Library of Congress and on the east lawn of the U.S. Capitol. [3]