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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

Literatura

• Morris, Richard B. (1996). Encyclopedia of American History (Seventh izd.). Collins Reference. ISBN 0062700553. 
• Peter C. Mancall, Gary B. Nash, Allan M. Winkler, Charlene Mires, John W. Jeffries, ur. (2009). Encyclopedia of American History. Facts on File. ISBN 0816071365. 
• Stanley I. Kutler (2002). Dictionary of American History (Third izd.). Charles Scribners & Sons. ISBN 0684805332. 
• Paul S. Boyer (2001). The Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195082095. 
• Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, Adam Rothman, ur. (2011). The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691152071. http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWLGcZ7pyAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1400839467&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W3XlUqbxBqa0ygHjm4GQAg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Aikin, Jane (2010). "Histories of the Library of Congress". Libraries & the Cultural Record 45 (1): 5–24. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0113. 
• Anderson, Gillian B. (1989), "Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917", Journal of the American Musciological Society 42 (1), DOI:10.2307/831419 
• 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)
• Shevlin, Eleanor F.; Lindquist, Eric N. (2010). "The Center for the Book and the History of the Book". Libraries & the Cultural Record 45 (1): 56–69. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0112. 
• Tabb, Winston et al. (2003). "Library of Congress". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 3: 1593–1612.  CS1 održavanje: Eksplicitna upotreba et al. (link)

• 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)

Vanjski linkovi

Kongresna biblioteka na Wikimedijinoj ostavi

• 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
• Djela čiji je autor Library of Congress na Projektu Gutenberg
• Library of Congress at FamilySearch Research Wiki for genealogists
•  "Congress, Library of". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. 
• C-SPAN's Library of Congress documentary and resources