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2. Thomas Jefferson Building - Wikipedia

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   The Main Reading Room View of the Thomas Jefferson Building's west façade The Great Hall and a view of the building's first and second floors, featuring Minerva mosaic. John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz won the competition for the architectural plans of the library in 1873.

3. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brewster Kahle , [ 5 ] Alexis Rossi, [ 6 ] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6 ] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud , [ 6 ] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive , a nonprofit organization .

4. American Memory - Wikipedia

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   The pilot for the American Memory project was a digitization program which started in 1990. Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on Laserdisc and CD-ROM.

5. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. a treasure trove of ...

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   The Library of Congress is so huge that it takes in three separate buildings on Capitol Hill; the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. With ...

6. Library of Congress - Wikipedia

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   The Story Up to Now: The Library of Congress, 1800–1946 (1947), detailed narrative; Ostrowski, Carl. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861 (2004) Rosenberg, Jane Aiken. The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)

7. James Madison Memorial Building - Wikipedia

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   With the help of former Librarian of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford, plans for a third Library of Congress building were started in 1957. [3] Congress appropriated planning funds for the structure in 1960, and construction was approved by an act of Congress on October 19, 1965, that authorized an appropriation of $75 million (equivalent to ...

8. List of digital library projects - Wikipedia

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   The Latin Library: Law Library of Congress: Sources of law 413,273 Collection of statutes and other sources of law from all over the world, with English summaries. Library of Congress: Learning Ally: General A digital library serving accessible audio textbooks and general titles to people with print disabilities.

9. Opinion - The books members of Congress are reading - AOL

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   “I’m belatedly reading my now former colleague Sherrod Brown’s book — ‘Desk 88’ — about eight senators who previously occupied his desk in the Senate chamber. Sherrod and Bob Casey ...