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The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
The library's expansion eventually filled the library's Main Building, although it used shelving expansions in 1910 and 1927. The library needed to expand into a new structure. Congress acquired nearby land in 1928 and approved construction of the Annex Building (later known as the John Adams Building ) in 1930.
The Mid-Manhattan Library, which opened in 1970 and replaced the circulating library at the Main Branch. The rear of the library's main hall was partitioned off in 1950, creating a bursar's office measuring 42 by 13 ft (12.8 by 4.0 m). [98] Minor repairs at the Main Branch occurred during the 1960s.
Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fifth-largest public library in the world.
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A library branch, branch library or community library is a local library that forms part of a larger library system, using the same library classification for its catalogs and is interconnected with all the other branches of the system through an integrated library system.