Talk:Library of Congress

Anyone can check out books

• I removed However, only members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, their staff, Library of Congress staff and certain other government officials can actually check out books. because it isn't true! 69.123.10.127 21:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean it's not true? Can you be more specific? Certainly the vast majority of people cannot check out books; they have to use them right there.140.147.160.78 14:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

Hi. I volunteer at the Library of Congress, and I can clarify this issue. Anyone who is 18 and older (or "above high school age," as the official guidance states) with a photo ID can obtain a Reader card. This enables people to access the library's reading rooms and use library materials (books, maps, letters, photos, etc.). However, only members of Congress and other specially designated groups can actually remove material from the reading rooms and the building. So, if "check out" means that you can remove the book from the building, than it is true that only certain groups of people can check out books. However, if "check out" means to obtain an item for personal research, then anyone can check out an item--provided that they don't remove the items from the reading room. Does this help clarify the issue? Perhaps the term "check out" should not be used in this article. 65.205.28.100 (talk) 17:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

That removal has been reverted (I don't know when). I added a simple "(i.e., remove from the premises)", so we now have the best of both worlds. BMJ-pdx (talk) 10:01, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Effects of the 2021 storming of the Capitol?

I know the Madison Building was one of the first to be evacuated (I added this to the building's page) but have there been any news/reports about how the Library and collections were effected? Something to keep an eye out for in the news coverage. Verumregium (talk) 23:09, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Here's a good place to start looking for that information: GovInfo.gov's "Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection" Wrecksdart (talk) 13:39, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

References

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The Library of Congress is a research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. Founded in 1800, it is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country and one of the largest libraries in the world. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.: the Thomas Jefferson Building (completed in 1897), the John Adams Building (1938) and the James Madison Memorial Building (1976). It also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, and a storage facility in Fort Meade, Maryland. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. This photograph, taken by William Henry Jackson, shows the Thomas Jefferson Building around 1902.

Photograph credit: William Henry Jackson; restored by Mmxx

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Orphaned references in Library of Congress

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Library of Congress's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "LOC":

• From Maryland: "Regions of the United States". American Memory. The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
• From Presidential library system: "Presidential Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
• From Jefferson Memorial: Documentation of the Jefferson Memorial. Office of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), of the National Park Service. September 1994. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 13, 2008
• From Theodore Roosevelt: "The World of 1989: The Spanish–American War; Rough Riders". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:28, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

@Wrecksdart: could you please fill in the missing ref mentioned above? -- Fyrael (talk) 19:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Got it, thanks Wrecksdart (talk) 16:36, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

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