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- Title
The Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815-2005.
- Authors
Cole, John Y.
- Abstract
Established as a legislative library in 1800 to support the U.S. Congress when it moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress--retaining its original name and primary legislative purpose-has subsequently become the largest and most international of the world's major libraries. The principal reason is that Librarians of Congress since Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1864-97), but especially Herbert Putnam (1899-1939), Luther H. Evans (1945-53), and James H. Billington (1987-), have affirmed and expanded Thomas Jefferson's concept that the Library of Congress is a national institution that should be universal in scope and widely and freely available to everyone.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LIBRARY of Congress; LIBRARIES; UNITED States. Congress; PUTNAM, Herbert, 1861-1955; EVANS, Luther H.
- Publication
Libraries & Culture, 2005, Vol 40, Issue 3, p385
- ISSN
0894-8631
- Publication type
Article