# Kongresna biblioteka

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| **Kongresna biblioteka** |
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| Izvorni naziv
 | Library of Congress
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| Skraćenica
 | LOC
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| Osnovana
 | 1800.
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| Vrsta
 | *de facto* Nacionalna biblioteka
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| Svrha/fokus
 | Depozitorna biblioteka
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| Sedište
 | Washington, D.C.,  Sjedinjene Države
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| Mrežno mjesto
 | www.loc.gov
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Kongresna biblioteka (*Jefferson Building*)
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**Kongresna biblioteka** (engl. **Library of Congress**), de facto nacionalna biblioteka Sjedinjenih Država i „istraživačka ruka“ Kongresa Sjedinjenih Država. Jedna je od najvećih biblioteka u svijetu. Njena zbirka uključuje preko 29 miliona katalogiziranih knjiga i drugih štampanih materijala na preko 470 jezika; više od 58 miliona rukopisa; najveću zbirku rijetkih knjiga u Sjevernoj Americi (uključujući i primjerak Gutenbergove Biblije), preko 1 milion izdanja Vlade SAD, milion izdanja svjetskih novina od unazad tri stotine godina, 33.000 uvezanih tomova novina, 500.000 rolni mikrofilma, preko 6.000 stripova; i najveću svjetsku kolekciju pravnih materijala, filmova, 4,8 miliona mapa, notnih zapisa i 2,7 miliona zvučnih zapisa. Bibliotekom rukovodi Kongresni bibliotekar.

## Povezano

* Klasifikacija Kongresne biblioteke
* Kongresna istraživačka služba

## Reference

## Literatura

* Morris, Richard B. (1996). *Encyclopedia of American History* (Seventh izd.). Collins Reference. ISBN 0062700553.
* Peter C. Mancall, Gary B. Nash, Allan M. Winkler, Charlene Mires, John W. Jeffries, ur. (2009). *Encyclopedia of American History*. Facts on File. ISBN 0816071365.
* Stanley I. Kutler (2002). *Dictionary of American History* (Third izd.). Charles Scribners & Sons. ISBN 0684805332.
* Paul S. Boyer (2001). *The Oxford Companion to United States History*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195082095.
* Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, Adam Rothman, ur. (2011). *The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History*. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691152071.
* Aikin, Jane (2010). „Histories of the Library of Congress”. *Libraries & the Cultural Record* **45** (1): 5–24. DOI:10.1353/lac.0.0113.
* Anderson, Gillian B. (1989), „Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917”, *Journal of the American Musciological Society* **42** (1): 108–49, DOI:10.2307/831419
* Bisbort, Alan, and Linda Barrett Osborne. *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
* Cope, R. L. "Management Review of the Library of Congress: The 1996 Booz Allen & Hamilton Report," *Australian Academic & Research Libraries* (1997) 28#1 online Arhivirano 2014-02-26 na Wayback Machine-u
* Mearns, David Chambers. *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) online
* Rosenberg, Jane Aiken. *The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939* (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
* Shevlin, Eleanor F.; Lindquist, Eric N. (2010). „The Center for the Book and the History of the Book”. *Libraries & the Cultural Record* **45** (1): 56–69. DOI:10.1353/lac.0.0112.
* Tabb, Winston i dr.. (2003). „Library of Congress”. *Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science* **3**: 1593–1612.
* Cole, John Y. and Henry Hope Reed. *The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building* (1998) excerpt and text search
* Small, Herbert, and Henry Hope Reed. *The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration* (1983)

## Vanjske veze

* The Library of Congress website
* Ask a Librarian
* American Memory
* History of the Library of Congress
* Library of Congress National Book Festival authors roster
* Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress Documentary Arhivirano 2014-12-16 na Wayback Machine-u
* poets.org Arhivirano 2013-05-15 na Wayback Machine-u (About the 2012 National Book Festival from The Academy of American Poets)
* Search the Library of Congress catalog
* thomas.loc.govArhivirano 2006-01-30 na Wayback Machine-u, legislative information
* Library Of Congress Meeting Notices and Rule Changes Arhivirano 2006-11-16 na Wayback Machine-u from The Federal Register RSS Feed Arhivirano 2007-11-14 na Wayback Machine-u
* Library of Congress photos on Flickr Arhivirano 2015-09-06 na Wayback Machine-u
* Outdoor sculpture Arhivirano 2008-05-17 na Wayback Machine-u at the Library of Congress
* Standards, The Library of Congress
* Djela čiji je autor Library of Congress na Projektu Gutenberg
* Library of Congress Arhivirano 2011-10-03 na Wayback Machine-u at FamilySearch Research Wiki for genealogists
* „Congress, Library of”. *Encyclopedia Americana*. 1920.
* C-SPAN's Library of Congress documentary and resources Arhivirano 2014-01-25 na Wayback Machine-u