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| | A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 |
 | | In 1832, Congress established the Law Library of Congress as a separate department of the Library. | | | The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. | | | The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
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| | Project Vote Smart - GOVERNMENT 101: Congress |
| | In Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States A teaching unit on the Constitution, Congress, and current events using documents from THOMAS and the Documents of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, an American Memory collection at the National Digital Library of the Library of Congress. | | | Congress of the United States An introductory article about the U.S. Congress. | | | CongressLink Historical information about Congress, explanations of basic congressional procedures, and selections written by scholars and subject matter experts. |
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http://www.vote-smart.org/resource_govt101_03.php
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| | Congress |
| | Library of Congress - Library of Congress, national library of the United States, Washington, D.C., est. | | | Continental Congress - Continental Congress, 1774–89, federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the... | | | Hispanics in Congress - A list of all the Hispanic members of Congress |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0777339.html
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| | SSHL: Government Information: Federal: Congress |
| | Library of Congress - The national library of the United States, offering diverse materials for research including extensive collections in many areas such as American history, music, and law. | | | Details the major differences of the two Houses of Congress. | | | Official Congressional Directory - Search or browse for members of the Congress from 1995-present via GPO Gate. |
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http://govinfo.ucsd.edu/fedcong.html
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| | M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives - Resources for African American History |
| | The African-American Mosaic: Selections from the Library of Congress' Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. | | | The Daniel A. Murray Pamphlet Collection: the Library of Congress makes available full-text manuscripts docuemnting African-American history and culture from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. | | | Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, [1992] UAlbany Main Library Film JK 1108 M35 Suppl., 1992, reel 11, fr. |
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http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/aaresources.htm
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| | Electronic PCN: Cataloging in Publication Program (Library of Congress) |
| | Librarians use it to locate a specific Library of Congress catalog record in the national databases and to order catalog cards from the Library of Congress or from commercial suppliers. | | | Electronic PCN: Cataloging in Publication Program (Library of Congress) | | | The Library of Congress assigns this number while the book is being cataloged. |
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http://pcn.loc.gov
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| | Congress of the United States - encyclopedia article about Congress of the United States. |
| | Another privilege is the use of the Library of Congress. | | | The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government government of the United States, established by the U.S. Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and many insular areas, the largest of which are Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. | | | Obstructing the work of Congress is a crime under federal law, and is known as contempt of Congress. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Congress+of+the+United+States
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| | The British Columbia Digital Library: Collections by Subject: Spanish and Portuguese Texts |
| | The project is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil. | | | Spain, the United States and the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas (American Memory, Library of Congress). | | | Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives (American Memory, Library of Congress). |
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http://bcdlib.tc.ca/links-subjects-spanish_texts.html
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| | Library of Congress/HLAS Online Home Page |
| | Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. | | | If you are outside the Library of Congress, click here to Search HLAS Online. | | | If you are inside the Library of Congress, click here to Search HLAS Online. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas
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| | Europe (Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections: An Illustrated Guide) |
| | His last stop was in Washington, and over 100 of the books were exhibited in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. | | | In December 1929, a bill was presented to Congress proposing that public funds be used to acquire the Vollbehr collection for the Library of Congress. | | | The date that marks the real beginning of the incunabula collection at the Library of Congress is April 6, 1867, when the last shipment of Peter Force's library was received at the Capitol. |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/guide/europe.html
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| | Library Of Congress Classification Class B Subclass Bd Library of Congress Classification:Class B, subclass BD -- Speculative philosophy Subclass BD: Speculative philosophy is... | | | Library of Congress Classification:Class K -- Law Class K: Law is a classification used by the Library of Congress class... | | | Library of Congress The Library of Congress, the Gutenberg Bible. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/library.html
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| | US Embassy Norway - About the U.S. - History |
| | --an impressive online exhibit from the Library of Congress. | | | American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Original Plan of Washington, D.C. --Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city of Washington. | | | this Library of Congress site is intended primarily for children, but contains information that anyone with any interest in this country's past will enjoy. |
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http://www.usa.no/about/history.html
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| | Country Links (U) |
| | Library of Congress - Uganda - A Country Study | | | Library of Congress - Uzbekistan - A Country Study | | | Library of Congress - Uruguay - A Country Study |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~jvileta/ibr/ibr_u.html
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| | Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) |
| | Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) | | | The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. | | | Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental
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| | Teacher Quality Collaborative |
| | Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 (Library of Congress) | | | Washington as it Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 (Library of Congress) | | | The Library of Congress Exhibitions (Library of Congress) |
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http://tqc.ed.sc.edu/resources.html
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| | Library of Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Library of Congress, the national library of the United States, is one of the most important libraries in the world. | | | The head of the Library of Congress is called the Librarian of Congress. | | | Originally founded as a research library for the United States Congress April 24th 1800, its original collection were the books of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/Library_of_Congress
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| | Microforms Collection, UM Libraries |
| | The second and third sequences (78th-89th Congress, 1943-1966) were compiled by the Library of Congress, and the user must refer to the Index of Congressional Hearings (not Confidential in Character) (DOC Z 1223.A3 1973 Folio) to determine the appropriate volume of the Senate Library collection which contains the hearings. | | | The first sequence (25th-77th Congress, 1839-1942) covers the congressional hearings which McKeldin Library own on microfiche (U.S. Congressional Hearings (Senate) 1839-1940). | | | The microfiche are arranged in three sequences: the 25th-77th Congress (1839-1942); the 78th-84th Congress, 1st session (1943-1956); and the 84th, 2nd session-89th Congress (1957-1966). |
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http://www.lib.umd.edu:7000/MICROFORMS/witindx_uscong.html
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| | 1997 News Releases - Texas State Library |
| | The Texas State Library and Archives Commission yesterday approved appointments to the new TexShare Advisory Board, created to establish policies relating to the sharing of library resources in Texas' academic community. | | | Austin --The Texas State Library and Archives announces the appointment of Edward Seidenberg as director of its Administrative Services Division, effective January 1, 1998. | | | The Standards were written in response to a mandate by the 74th Legislature requesting that the Texas State Library, in consultation with the State Board of Education, adopt standards for school districts to consider when developing, implementing, or expanding their library services. |
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http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/news/1997news.html
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| | Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992 |
| | As a man who stated he could not live without books, he took a keen interest in the Library of Congress and its collection while he was president of the United States from 1801-1809. | | | Congress responded quickly and generously: in 1852 a total of $168,700 was appropriated to restore the Library's rooms in the Capitol and to replace the lost books. | | | In spite of the impressive list of "national library functions" it performs, the Library of Congress is not the official National Library of the United States or even necessarily the center of American library and information activities. |
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http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/legacy/loc.html
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| | Congress |
| | congress of racial equality, ottawa congress center by stamp act congress, congress news congress hotel is library of congress catalog power of congress is congress plaza hotel chicago etc. congress schiavo. | | | library of congress or us congress, united state congress is american bowling congress, congress theater is congress of vienna. | | | congress woman (jolly hotel italy) library of congress copyright, philippine congress, texas congress etc. congress bankruptcy american congress etc. national congress of american indians, congress voting record, congress vote, library of congress subject heading bills in congress by congress schiavo vote etc. |
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http://www.hoteltordi.com/ddp/congress.htm
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| | Exploratorium: Ten Cool Sites: History |
| | Library of Congress: American Treasures - A guide to some of the "treasures" in the Library of Congress. | | | Library of Congress - The Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library of Congress consists of moving image materials that document the extraordinary journey of a woman who | | | The African American Mosaic Exhibition by the Library of Congress - This site contains selections from the Library of Congress resource guide for studying African American culture and history. |
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/history.html
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| | Microforms Collection, UM Libraries |
| | The second and third sequences (78th-89th Congress, 1943-1966) were compiled by the Library of Congress, and the user must refer to the Index of Congressional Hearings (not Confidential in Character) (DOC Z 1223.A3 1973 Folio) to determine the appropriate volume of the Senate Library collection which contains the hearings. | | | The first sequence (25th-77th Congress, 1839-1942) covers the congressional hearings which McKeldin Library own on microfiche (U.S. Congressional Hearings (Senate) 1839-1940). | | | The microfiche are arranged in three sequences: the 25th-77th Congress (1839-1942); the 78th-84th Congress, 1st session (1943-1956); and the 84th, 2nd session-89th Congress (1957-1966). |
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http://www.lib.umd.edu:7777/MICROFORMS/witindx_uscong.html
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| | October 1995, No. 3, A periodic report from The National Digital Library Program The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program |
| | Vatican Library to Washington, and in 1996, the Library of Congress will host the Dresden Library. | | | The Library of Congress has been participating in a yearlong series of meetings of rights holders and representatives of education and library organizations who are negotiating to determine whether guidelines can be developed for the "fair use" of electronic works by libraries and educational institutions. | | | In 1976 the card file became an on-line file known as LAWL in the Library's mainframe databases and included the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America, plus Brazil and Haiti, Portugal and the former Portuguese and Spanish colonies in Africa. |
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http://lcweb.loc.gov/ndl/oct-95.html
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| | Selling the University a Library |
| | The highest asking price recorded for The Bancroft Library was its offer to the Library of Congress for $500,000. | | | This bill, introduced by California State Senator John M. Briceland, would have purchased Bancroft's library for $250,000. | | | McKowen, Acting Secretary of the Board of Regents, reports the adoption, on February 14, of a resolution recognizing the value of The Bancroft Library and stating their trust "that some means can be devised to secure the permanent location of the Library at the University." |
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http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/bancroft/selling/selling.html
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| | Palau Congress Library Information Paper - Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments |
| | The Congress Library is organized as one of the Joint Programs under the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. | | | All reports and other matters pertaining to the Congress Library have to be approved by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. | | | As a bicameral Congress, we serve all the members and the general staff of both Houses, but we only report directly to both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. |
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http://www.ifla.org/VII/s3/conf/1palau-e.htm
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| | Search Library of Congress Finding Aids |
| | EAD Finding Aids at the Library of Congress | | | These searchable finding aids use the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/faid
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| | History of the Library (Library of Congress) |
| | The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. | | | The Joint Committee on the Library (the oldest continuing Joint Committee of the U.S. Congress) was created on April 24, 1800, when President John Adams signed the bill establishing the federal government in Washington and creating the Library of Congress. | | | When the Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public on November 1, 1897, it was hailed as a glorious national monument and "the largest, the costliest, and the safest" library building in the world. |
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http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/about/history
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| | Pan American Congress |
| | American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music. | | | The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress) This exhibit marks the publication of a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture. | | | Fox Valley chapter of German American Nat'l Congress The Fox Valley (Chicago Area)Chapter of the German American National Congress, known as the fun-loving German Americans, hosts and embraces German-American cultural activities, festivals and education. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Pan_American_Congress.html
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