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This is the oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research
arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world with more
than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The
collections include more than 29 million books and other printed
materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million
maps and 58 million manuscripts. The Library’s mission is “to make its
resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and
to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity
for future generations”.
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