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| December 18th, 2003 |
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On December 18th, 2003 the Young Associates arranged a very interesting docent-led tour at
The Library of Congress in Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540. The building is one of three Library of Congress buildings on Capitol
Hill, and is one of the most admired buildings in America. Highlights of the tour included the Italian Renaissance Architecture of the Great Hall, which features magnificent marble columns and staircases, statues, mosaics, and paintings, as well as the prized Gutenberg Bible and Giant Bible of Mainz on permanent display, a birds-eye view of the Main Reading Room, and captivating insight into the 200-year history of the library. Our tour concluded with a buffet lunch in the Montpelier Room of the Library of Congress Madison Building.
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| Pictures from The Library of Congress |
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From left to right in the Great Hall: Si Snow, Katharina Brekke, Vandeventer Black, Tor Soevik, Tandberg USA, Fridtjov Markussen, Legg Mason, Brit Nora Gauthier, ScanFashion, and Herbert Larrazabal, United Bank.
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From left to right: Brit Nora Gauthier, Fridtjov Markussen, Herbert A. Larrazabal, Si Snow, Katharina Brekke, and Tor Soevik.
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From left to right: Fridtjov Markussen, Tor Soevik, Katharina Brekke, Brit Nora Gauthier, and Herbert A. Larrazabal.
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From left to right: View of the Great Hall, Si Snow and Brit Nora Gauthier, and view of the Main Reading Room.
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| Library of Congress |
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The Library of Congress was founded in 1800 by an act of Congress and is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, has a staff of more than 4,000, and serves as the research arm of Congress and as the national library of the United States. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 126 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include nearly 19 million books, 2.6 million films, audio and video recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 56 million manuscripts.
The Library maintains the largest law library in the world and through the Congressional Research Service handles over 500,000 public policy related research requests annually. As the Copyright Office of the U.S., the Library of Congress registers more than 500,000 new copyright claims each year and maintains the largest card catalog in the world.
The Library's National Digital Library initiative makes much of the library's vast print and media collection available online at it's public website (www.loc.gov).
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