National Library of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress


00:02:22 1 History
00:02:31 1.1 1800–1851: Origin and Jefferson's contribution
00:06:20 1.2 1851–1865: Weakening
00:09:36 1.3 1865–1897: Spofford's expansion
00:11:52 1.4 1897–1939: Post-reorganization
00:15:39 1.5 1939–present: Modern history
00:29:10 2 Holdings
00:32:17 2.1 Digitization
00:34:45 3 Buildings of the Library
00:35:18 3.1 Thomas Jefferson Building
00:35:49 3.2 John Adams Building
00:36:18 3.3 James Madison Memorial Building
00:36:58 3.4 Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation
00:37:47 4 Digital Millennium Copyright Act
00:38:28 5 Access
00:39:42 6 Standards
00:40:38 7 Annual events
00:41:02 8 Notable personnel



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The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol.  The Library of Congress has claims to be the largest library in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages."The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800 after sitting for 11 years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s. Most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, and the library sought to restore its collection in 1815. They bought Thomas Jefferson's entire personal collection of 6,487 books.  After a period of slow growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection, including many of Jefferson's books.  After the American Civil War, the Library of Congress grew rapidly in both size and importance, which sparked a campaign to purchase replacement copies for volumes that had been burned. The Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to deposit two copies of books, maps, illustrations, and diagrams printed in the United States. It also began to build its collections, and its development culminated between 1888 and 1894 with the construction of a separate, extensive library building across the street from the Capitol.
The Library's primary mission is to research inquiries made by members of Congress, carried out through the Congressional Research Service. The Library is open to the public, although only high-ranking government officials and Library employees may check out books and materials.