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Website. loc .gov. The Library of Congress ( LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. [3] Founded in 1800, the library is the United States's oldest federal cultural institution. [4]
Library of Congress Classification:Class A -- General Works. Class A: General Works is a classification used by the United States Library of Congress Classification system. This article outlines the subclasses of Class A. [1] [2]
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The US Library of Congress Center for the Book was founded in 1977 by Daniel J. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, to promote literacy, libraries, and reading and an understanding of the history and heritage of American literature. The Center for the Book is mainly supported by tax-deductible donations.
The Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library is located in Watertown, Massachusetts on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind. Services are provided free of charge to eligible users. The library is a branch of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.
National Digital Newspaper Program. The National Digital Newspaper Program is a joint project between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create and maintain a publicly available, online digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922.
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (formerly the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction and Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction) is an annual book award presented by the Librarian of Congress each year at the National Book Festival . It was established in 2009 as a lifetime ...
The LC Linked Data Service is an initiative of the Library of Congress that publishes authority data as linked data. [1] It is commonly referred to by its URI: id.loc.gov. [2] The first offering of the LC Linked Data Service was the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) dataset, which was released in April 2009. [3]