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Library of Congress


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The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in four buildings in Washington, D.C., as well as the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books.

The Library's primary mission is researching inquiries made by members of Congress through the Congressional Research Service. It also serves as the legal repository for copyright protection and copyright registration for the United States Copyright Office.

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Picturing War: Soldiers’ photography finds a home in the Veterans History Project

This is a guest post by Megan Harris, a reference librarian in the Veterans History Project. It also appears in the January-February issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, which is devoted to the first 25 years of the VHP.

For 25 years, the Veterans History Project has preserved the voices of U.S. veterans through a variety of primary sources. The majority of VHP’s collections include only

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“Most historians agree that the decline of the Great Library of Alexandria was due to what endangers libraries of the present day--general indifference and bureaucratic neglect.”
Library of Congress, The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures

“library catalogs are a tangible example of humanity’s effort to establish and preserve the possibility of order.”
Library of Congress, The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures

“Alexandria's first librarian, Zenodotus, attempted to put this mass of scrolls in order. The first scrolls were inventoried and then organized alphabetically, with a tag affixed to the end of each scroll indicating the author, title, and subject. These three categories came to define the traditional card catalog and are still the cornerstone of library cataloging.”
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