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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
The John Adams Building of the Library of Congress. The John Adams Building is the second-oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States.Built in the 1930s, it is named for John Adams, the second president, who signed the law creating the Library of Congress in 1800.
The CVC has additional space for use by the Congress, including multiple meeting and conference rooms. On the south / House side, there is a large room which is most likely to be used by a committee. A Congressional Auditorium, a 450-seat theater, is also available for use by members of Congress or for either House of Congress should it be needed.
The Library of Congress is so huge that it takes in three separate buildings on Capitol Hill; the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. With ...
Library of Congress building, c. 1902. Needing more room for its increasing collection, the Library of Congress under Librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford suggested to the Congress that a new building be built specifically to serve as the American national library. Prior to this the Library existed in a wing of the Capitol Building.
With the help of former Librarian of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford, plans for a third Library of Congress building were started in 1957. [3] Congress appropriated planning funds for the structure in 1960, and construction was approved by an act of Congress on October 19, 1965, that authorized an appropriation of $75 million (equivalent to ...
The Kluge Center was founded in 2000 with a gift to the Library of Congress by philanthropist John W. Kluge.The gift was announced on October 5, 2000, in a joint press conference by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), then Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California), then Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and James H. Billington, then the ...
Further east and behind the Cannon Building is the James Madison Memorial Building (built 1971-1980, part of the adjacent Library of Congress complex) (2015) The congressional office buildings are the office buildings used by the United States Congress to augment the limited space in the United States Capitol.