February 18, 2005, Cybercast
Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress
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John Y. Cole, the Library’s
most noted historian and director of the Center for the Book,
in this cybercast discusses the Encyclopedia of the Library
of Congress: For Congress, the Nation, and the World,
an authoritative one-volume reference work of newly written
and researched essays, articles, and statistical appendices.
Edited by John Cole and Jane Aikin, the Encyclopedia describes
the historical development of the collections, functions,
and services of the world's largest library from its origin
in 1800 to 2004. The most comprehensive book ever published
about the Library of Congress, it is 569 pages in length
and contains 22 color photographs, 19 of them in an opening
15-page portfolio of the Library's spectacular Thomas Jefferson
Building, more than 350 black and white illustrations, biographies
of the 13 Librarians of Congress, a section on "Further Research
and Reading," and a 36-page index. More than 50 Library of
Congress specialists contributed to the volume.
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