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Created primarily to serve Congress, the library quickly became a resource for all the nation's citizens. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution.

The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library preserves a collection of nearly 121 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books.

Stanford White's NYU LIbrary building is shown here. This image can be printed on over 16 custom NYU Library gifts.

Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) was a magazine illustrator whose dynamic paintings accompanied stories by Ernest Hemingway, Pearl S. Buck, and other prominent writers.

Industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie was known for both accumulating great wealth and giving it away.

America's libraries provide not only books, but videos, reference materials, computer and internet access, programs including literacy classes, story hours, author presentations, summer reading, cultural programs, writing workshops and much more.