Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América
Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América | |
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Tipo | biblioteca nacional, United Nations Depository Library, parliamentary archives e legislative branch agency |
Data de fundación | 24 de abril de 1800 |
Presidente/a | Carla Hayden (2016-) |
Director/a | Carla Hayden |
Nº de empregados | 3.242 (2020) |
Orzamento | 598402000 dólar estadounidenses, 696112000 dólar estadounidenses e 719400000 dólar estadounidenses |
Eventos/Actividades | burning of the Library of Congress |
Organización subsidiaria | US Center for the Book, National Film Registry, Office of the Inspector General, Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Divisão Federal de Pesquisa, United States Copyright Office, Cataloging Distribution Service, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress Police, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Music Division, Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress Publishing Office e Library of Congress Manuscript Division |
Premios | Silver Anvil Award |
Sede | Washington, D.C. |
En | Washington, D.C. |
País | Estados Unidos de América |
38°53′19″N 77°00′17″O / 38.888611111111, -77.004722222222 | |
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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
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Logo da biblioteca
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Selo da Biblioteca
Notas
[editar | editar a fonte]- ↑ 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.
Véxase tamén
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Bibliografía
[editar | editar a fonte]- 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
[editar | editar a fonte]- 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)