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As the title of this exhibition
suggests, Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions
at the Library of Congress features the collections that
the Library has amassed and is still receiving about the tragic
events of one year ago. It is an exhibition that reveals much
about the Library of Congress as an institution, its astounding
collections, and its equally remarkable staff. At its core, this
exhibition is the story of how the 9/11 materials in this national
institution arrived here and today reflect what America has experienced
while providing assurance that the record will be here in the
future for America's citizens and others to recall and scholars
to study.
Within hours of the attacks in
New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania, offices within the
Library mobilized to record and gather for posterity first-hand
accounts and images. Other offices of the Library here and abroad
collected the written and recorded reports of 9/11, acquiring
in the process a wide-range of responses. Over the past year and
in almost every section of the Library of Congress, staff have
sought and received an abundance of original material including
prints, photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts and
personal reactions, headlines, books, magazines, songs, maps,
videotapes, and films. The Library even acquired physical remnants
from two of the attack sites. The collection of 9/11 material
is in the tens of thousands and continues to grow steadily.
September 7 - October 26, 2002
Mondays - Saturdays, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Great Hall, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
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