Kongresna biblioteka
Kongresna biblioteka (engl. Library of Congress), de facto nacionalna biblioteka Sjedinjenih Država i „istraživačka ruka“ Kongresa Sjedinjenih Država. Jedna je od najvećih biblioteka u svijetu. Njena zbirka uključuje preko 29 miliona katalogiziranih knjiga i drugih štampanih materijala na preko 470 jezika; više od 58 miliona rukopisa; najveću zbirku rijetkih knjiga u Sjevernoj Americi (uključujući i primjerak Gutenbergove Biblije), preko 1 milion izdanja Vlade SAD, milion izdanja svjetskih novina od unazad tri stotine godina, 33.000 uvezanih tomova novina, 500.000 rolni mikrofilma, preko 6.000 stripova; i najveću svjetsku kolekciju pravnih materijala, filmova, 4,8 miliona mapa, notnih zapisa i 2,7 miliona zvučnih zapisa. Bibliotekom rukovodi Kongresni bibliotekar.

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 Klasifikacija Kongresne biblioteke
 Kongresna istraživačka služba

Reference

Literatura 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bisbort, Alan, and Linda Barrett Osborne. 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
 Cope, R. L. "Management Review of the Library of Congress: The 1996 Booz Allen & Hamilton Report," Australian Academic & Research Libraries (1997) 28#1 online 
 Mearns, David Chambers. The Story Up To Now: The Library Of Congress, 1800-1946 (1947), detailed narrative
 Ostrowski, Carl. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 (2004) online
 Rosenberg, Jane Aiken. The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
 
 
 Cole, John Y. and Henry Hope Reed. The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building (1998)  excerpt and text search
 Small, Herbert, and Henry Hope Reed. The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration (1983)

Vanjske veze 

 The Library of Congress website
 Ask a Librarian
 American Memory
 History of the Library of Congress
 Library of Congress National Book Festival authors roster
   Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress Documentary 
 poets.org  (About the 2012 National Book Festival from The Academy of American Poets)
 Search the Library of Congress catalog
 thomas.loc.gov, legislative information
 Library Of Congress Meeting Notices and Rule Changes  from The Federal Register RSS Feed 
 Library of Congress photos on Flickr 
 Outdoor sculpture  at the Library of Congress
 Standards, The Library of Congress
 
 Library of Congress at FamilySearch Research Wiki for genealogists
 
 C-SPAN's Library of Congress documentary and resources 

Nastanci 1800.
Biblioteke u SAD
Nacionalne biblioteke
Washington, D.C.