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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
Level II of the Executive Schedule [1] Website. loc.gov/librarianoffice/. The librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, [2] for a term of ten years. [3] The librarian of Congress also appoints and oversees the Register of ...
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the United States House of Representatives, and an upper body, the United States Senate. It meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Members are chosen through direct election, [ b ] though ...
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.
Occupation (s) Director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, 1977-2016. Historian of the Library of Congress (2016-2021) John Y. Cole (born July 30, 1940) is an American librarian, historian, and author. He was the founding director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress and in 2016 became the first official ...
Personal details. Born. (1952-08-10) August 10, 1952 (age 72) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. Education. Roosevelt University (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD) Carla Diane Hayden (born August 10, 1952) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an American librarian who is serving as the 14th librarian of Congress. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Since the creation of the office of the librarian ...
Colleen Joy Shogan (born September 30, 1975) is an American author and academic serving as Archivist of the United States since May 17, 2023, succeeding Acting Archivist Debra Wall. Prior to her confirmation as Archivist, Shogan was the director of the David M. Rubenstein Center for White House History at the White House Historical Association.
James Hadley Billington. (1929-06-01) June 1, 1929 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. Died. November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20) (aged 89) Washington, D.C., U.S. Education. Princeton University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil) Signature. James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) [ 1 ] was an American academic and author who taught ...