Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América , a enciclopedia libre

Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América
Tipo	biblioteca nacional, United Nations Depository Library (en) , parliamentary archives (en) e legislative branch agency (en)
Bandeira
	Composto por Biblioteca Jurídica do Congresso dos EUA (pt) ; Rosenwald Collection (pt) ; Otto Vollbehr Collection (en) ; Bain Collection (en) ; ;
Persoas e organizacións
Cargo dirixente	Librarian of Congress (en)
Órgano de prensa	Library of Congress Information Bulletin (en) , Library of Congress Magazine (en) , Information Bulletin (en) , The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress (en) , Civilization (en) e Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions (en)
	Director/a Carla Hayden ; ;
	Presidente/a Carla Hayden 14 de setembro de 2016 ; ;
	Cadro de persoal 3242 (2020); 3210 (2019) ; ;
	En sociedade con Biblioteca Pública Digital da America (pt) ; ;
	Ten en propiendade American Memory (en) ; Library of Congress Online Catalog (en) ; Mary Pickford Theater (en) ; Library of Congress National Digital Library project (en) ; Serviço de dados vinculados da Biblioteca do Congresso (pt) ; Biblia de Lincoln; Veterans History Project (en) ; World Digital Library (pt) ; Feleky Collection (en) ; ;
	Membro de Société de l'histoire de France; Flickr Commons (en) ; Geheugen van Nederland (en) ; International GLAM Labs Community; IFLA; National Digital Stewardship Alliance (en) ; Coalition for Networked Information (en) ; International Internet Preservation Consortium (en) ; International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (en) ; Biodiversity Heritage Library (pt) ; Digital Library Federation (en) ; World Wide Web Consortium; Association of Research Libraries (en) ; Confederación Internacional de Museos Arquitectónicos; World Digital Library (pt) ; Book Industry Study Group (en) ; ;
	Entidades subsidiarias US Center for the Book (en) ; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (en) ; American Folklife Center (en) ; Library of Congress Police (en) ; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (en) ; Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (en) ; Library of Congress Music Division (en) ; Library of Congress Publishing Office; Library of Congress Manuscript Division (en) ; Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division (en) ; Cataloging Distribution Service (en) ; Office of the Inspector General, Library of Congress (en) ; National Film Registry; National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (en) ; Congressional Research Service (en) ; United States Copyright Office (en) ; Divisão Federal de Pesquisa (pt) ; Rare Book and Special Collections Division (en) ; ;
Economía
	Orzamento 719400000 $ (2020); 696112000 $ (2019); 598402000 $ () ; ;
Data
Fundación	24 de abril de 1800
Acontecementos
	24 de agosto de 1814 : burning of the Library of Congress (en)
Premios
	(2002) Silver Anvil Award (en) ;
Localización
	38°53′19″N 77°00′17″O / 38.8886, -77.0047
Estado	Estados Unidos de América
Distrito Federal	Distrito de Columbia
Capital federal	Washington, D.C.
País	Estados Unidos de América
Localización	Capitolio dos Estados Unidos, Edifício Thomas Jefferson (pt) , John Adams Building (en) e James Madison Memorial Building (en)
Código postal	20540-4560
Sede	Washington, D.C.
Fontes e ligazóns
Páxina WEB	loc.gov
Redes
	Descrito pola fonte Open GLAM Survey ; The Encyclopedia Americana The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Congress, Library of (en) ; New International Encyclopedia The New International Encyclopædia/Library of Congress, The (en) ; ;
	[ Wikidata ] [ C:Commons ]

A Biblioteca do Congreso é unha biblioteca de investigación que serve oficialmente ó Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América, pero que é de facto a biblioteca nacional dos Estados Unidos.

É a máis antiga institución cultural federal do país. Segundo John Cole, trátase da meirande e máis internacional biblioteca do mundo. Atribúelle estas características polos seus grandes e influentes líderes, como Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1864–97), Herbert Putnam (1899–1939), Luther Evans (1945–53) e James H. Billington (1987–). Cole dixo que todos eles "afirmaron e agrandaron o concepto de Thomas Jefferson de que a Biblioteca do Congreso é unha institución nacional que debería ser universal no seu alcance e dispoñible para todos".^[1]

Localizada en tres edificios do Capitol Hill e do Campus Packard Campus de Virxinia, é descrita como a meirande biblioteca do mundo.^[2] Porén, as medicións que o afirman teñen unha utilidade limitada por mor da gran variedade de xeitos de catalogación empregados polas institucións.

Símbolos

Logo da biblioteca
Selo da Biblioteca

Notas

↑ John Young Cole, "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815-2005", Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385-398.
↑ "Fascinating Facts: Statistics". Library of Congress. COnsultado o 27 de outubro de 2014.

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Bibliografía

Aikin, Jane. "Histories of the Library of Congress." Libraries & the Cultural Record (2010) 45#1 5-24.
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 Arquivado 26 de febreiro de 2014 en Wayback Machine.
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., and Eric N. Lindquist. "The Center for the Book and the History of the Book," Libraries & the Cultural Record (2010) 45#1 pp 56–69.
Tabb, Winston, et al. "Library of Congress." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2003) 3: 1593-1612.

Arquitectura

Cole, John Y. e 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)

Outros artigos

Ligazóns externas

[1] John Young Cole, "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815-2005", Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385-398.

[2] "Fascinating Facts: Statistics". Library of Congress. COnsultado o 27 de outubro de 2014.

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