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  2. Library of Congress - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Library of Congress Classification - Wikipedia

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    The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal ...

  4. Comparison of Dewey and Library of Congress subject ...

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    Comparison of Dewey and Library of Congress subject classification. This is a conversion chart showing how the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress Classification systems organize resources by concept, in part for the purpose of assigning call numbers. These two systems account for over 95% of the classification in United States libraries, and ...

  5. Thomas Jefferson Building - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Jefferson Building, also known as the Main Library, is the oldest of the Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C. Built between 1890 and 1897, it was initially known as the Library of Congress Building. In 1980, the building was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of ...

  6. Library of Congress Classification:Class P -- Language and ...

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    Class P: Language and Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system. This page outlines the subclasses of Class P. It contains 19 sub-classifications, 12 of which are dedicated to language families and geographic groups of languages, and 10 sub-classifications of literature (4 subclasses contain both languages and literatures).

  7. Librarian of Congress - Wikipedia

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    Level II of the Executive Schedule [1] Website. loc.gov/librarianoffice/. The librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, [2] for a term of ten years. [3] The librarian of Congress also appoints and oversees the Register of ...

  8. Library of Congress Control Number - Wikipedia

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    Library of Congress Control Number. The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloged records in the Library of Congress, in the United States. It is not related to the contents of any book, and should not be confused with Library of Congress Classification (LCC).

  9. Library of Congress Linked Data Service - Wikipedia

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    Python. 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]