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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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Winding down her historic two- term, three-year appointment as the 24th U.S. poet laureate, defended poetry as a tool for courage, personal healing and community connection.

More than a farewell, was a love letter to poetry, to libraries and librarians and to the collective soul of a country still learning how to feel. Her lecture, ti

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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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