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		Congress The legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
		Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the federal government, instituted (1789) by Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which prescribes...
		Congress party A political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century.
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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.
		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.
		The same reorganization act stipulated that the president's appointment of a Librarian of Congress thereafter was to be approved by the Senate.
	lcweb.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (319 words)

	Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
		The same reorganization act stipulated that the president's appointment of a Librarian of Congress thereafter was to be approved by the Senate.
		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.
		William McKinley appointed a new Librarian of Congress to supervise the move from the Capitol and implement the new reorganization.
	www.lcweb.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (319 words)

	US librarian of Congress in Iran on 'cultural' visit as nuclear tensions rise
		The library, the research arm of Congress and the national library of the United States, is the world's largest, and its chief is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
		Librarian of Congress James Billington is leading a small delegation on the rare trip, which also comes as Iranians celebrate the 25th anniversary of the November 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran during the country's Islamic revolution, the officials said.
		US librarian of Congress in Iran on 'cultural' visit as nuclear tensions rise
	www.spacewar.com /2004/041103191923.0km5e655.html (926 words)

	GlobaLex - Finding the Law in Bermuda Guide
		Bermuda, the oldest self-governing colony of the United Kingdom is one of the last few remaining Dependent Territories.
		There are two main political parties, the Progressive Labour Party, currently forming the Government, and the United Bermuda Party, which forms the Opposition.
		Karen Skiffington has been a Law Librarian since 1986 in Bermuda.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Bermuda.htm (362 words)

	Weeding List #2001C
		Small Business Development Center program : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise and General Small Business Problems of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives with the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session.
		United States and Foreign Commercial Service : hearing before the Subcommittee on Export Opportunities and Special Small Business Problems of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, forst session, Washington, DC, April 3, 1985.
		Dick Grefe Senior Reference Librarian James G. Leyburn Library Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 24450 Depository #632 e-mail: grefed@wlu.edu phone: (540) 463-8648 fax: (540) 463-8964 Publications from the House Committee on Small Business Y 4.Sm 1:L 52/2.
	home.wlu.edu /~grefed/govt/weed_2001c.html (362 words)

	National Policy on Permanent Papers--Second Report
		The Librarian of Congress, Archivist of the United States, and the Public Printer shall jointly monitor the Federal Government's progress in implementing the national policy declared in section 1 regarding acid free permanent papers and shall report to the Congress regarding such progress on December 31, 1991, December 31, 1993, and December 31, 1995.
		Pursuant to the provisiion of Public Law 101-423, the Librarian of Congress, the Archivist of the United States, and the Public Printer herewith submit the second report in accordance with section 3 of the Joint Resolution to Establish a National Policy on Permanent Papers.
		To the Clerk of the United States House of Representative and the Secretary of the United States Senate:
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/lc/natpol.html (3491 words)

	John J. Crittenden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819, when he resigned.
		He was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President William Henry Harrison from March to September 1841; appointed and subsequently elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Clay and served from March 31, 1842, to June 12, 1848, when he resigned.
		From 1867 to 1871 he was state librarian of Kentucky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_J._Crittenden (790 words)

	Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
		The same reorganization act stipulated that the president's appointment of a Librarian of Congress thereafter was to be approved by the Senate.
		In its 1876 survey of the libraries of the United States, the U.S. Bureau of Education listed the rapidly growing Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library as the two largest libraries in the United States, with approximately 300,000 volumes apiece.
		U.S. Congress, Congressional Record 72 (June 9, 1930): 10347; U.S. Senate, Committee on the Library, Purchase of Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula, 71st Congress., 2d sess., 1930-31, S. Rept.
	www.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (7906 words)

	Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
		In 1913 Congress directed the American Printing House for the Blind to begin depositing embossed books in the Library, and in 1931 a separate appropriation was authorized for providing "books for the use of adult blind residents of the United States."
		The same reorganization act stipulated that the president's appointment of a Librarian of Congress thereafter was to be approved by the Senate.
		Asked to characterize the Library as he neared the end of his long career, Putnam penned the phrase "Universal in Scope: National in Service." This view marked his entire tenure, for if Spofford was the principal collection-builder, Putnam was the Librarian who did the most to extend the Library's use to the American people.
	lcweb.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (7906 words)

	Famous Kansans, Women
		She was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1978 where she served until 1997, when she retired from political office.
		Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker was the first Kansas woman to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first woman to be elected to a full term in the Senate in her own right.
		At the turn of the century she was appointed Kansas State Librarian and elected president of Kansas Press Women.
	www.kshs.org /people/women.htm (1674 words)

	US librarian of Congress in Iran on 'cultural' visit as nuclear tensions rise
		The library, the research arm of Congress and the national library of the United States, is the world's largest, and its chief is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
		The United States accuses Iran of secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian atomic energy program, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was to refer the matter to the UN Security Council later this month for possible sanctions.
		US librarian of Congress in Iran on 'cultural' visit as nuclear tensions rise
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=32769 (772 words)

	National Library of Jamaica Personalities
		He worked in the West India Reference Library for three years before going to the United Kingdom to study for his degree and to qualify as a Librarian.
		He also became a member of the West Indies Federal Parliament from 1958 to 1962, a Senator from 1962 to 1967, a member of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1980, Minister of Government 1972 to 1980, as well as President of the Senate from 1989 to1991.
		He spent the next 30 years at the University Library before retiring in 1981 as University Librarian, a position he had held for ten years.
	www.nlj.org.jm /docs/personalities.htm (772 words)

	GlobaLex - Finding the Law in Bermuda Guide
		Bermuda, the oldest self-governing colony of the United Kingdom is one of the last few remaining Dependent Territories.
		There are two main political parties, the Progressive Labour Party, currently forming the Government, and the United Bermuda Party, which forms the Opposition.
		The legislative bodies are the House of Assembly, with 36 MPs representing the populace, and the Senate, which has 11 members appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Party in power and by the Opposition.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Bermuda.htm (362 words)

	Cultural Tourism DC - African American Heritage Trail
		Daniel Alexander Payne Murray moved to Washington from his birthplace of Baltimore at the age of nine to work for his brother, a caterer and manager of the United States Senate Restaurant and later became a member of the 12-person staff of the Library of Congress as the personal assistant to the Librarian of Congress.
		The Lincoln Congregational Temple United Church of Christ has roots in the Civil War (1861-1865) with the founding of the Lincoln Mission as a school and community center at the corner of Ninth and R streets, NW.
		The three Murray brothers, part of an enterprising family, ran a successful printing business in the early 20th century, a lucrative trade in the nation's capital where the chief local business — governing — required enormous amounts of printed materials.
	culturaltourismdc.org /info-url3948/info-url_list.htm?attrib_id=7970 (362 words)

	Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
		The first appropriation for this purpose was made in 1961, enabling the Library to establish acquisitions centers in New Delhi and Cairo to purchase publications and distribute them to research libraries throughout the United States.
		The same reorganization act stipulated that the president's appointment of a Librarian of Congress thereafter was to be approved by the Senate.
		A major avenue for the Librarian's innovations was the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Act of 1925, which enabled the institution to accept gifts and bequests from private citizens.
	lcweb.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (362 words)

	Lugar, Richard -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In 1976 Richard Lugar of Indiana, the former mayor of Indianapolis, was elected to the United States Senate.
		Brief biography of Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America.
		The English writer and librarian Richard Garnett was the head of the Garnett family, which exerted a formative influence on the development of modern British writing.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312248?tocId=9312248 (760 words)

	Paris, Tennessee - Early History
		Isham G. Harris, also represented this district in Congress, and later, was long a member of the Senate from this state.
		A Paris born man, Howell E. Jackson, was a member of the Supreme Court of the United States; another, W. Harris, was a member of the State Supreme Court, and still another Paris citizen, Andrew McCampbell, twice declined that honor.
		William T. Haskell, the most brilliant Tennessean, spent the earlier years of his life in Paris, as did his wife, who was the first woman to hold the office of Librarian in Tennessee.
	www.ceiinc.org /heco/paris_tn.html (760 words)

	LLRX.com - Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements
		These reports are issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and include the Committee’s analysis and recommendations concerning proposed treaties.
		Bilateral Agreements On Extradition, Judicial/Legal Assistance, Control Of Narcotic Drugs, And Prisoner Transfer By Country (United Nations Crime And Justice Information Network) PDF Ddcument containing a list of agreements between the U.S. and other countries.
		Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library and EISIL Project Manager.
	www.llrx.com /features/ustreaty.htm (3941 words)

	Librarian of Congress Touches Many Bases on Iran Visit (washingtonpost.com)
		Shortly after taking office in 1997, President Mohammad Khatami, a former head of Iran's national library, called for bringing down the "wall of mistrust" with the United States through cultural exchanges.
		Billington, a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate, is the highest-level U.S. official to visit Iran and meet openly with Iranian officials since relations between the two countries were severed in 1980 after militant students took over the U.S. Embassy in the wake of the Islamic revolution.
		Billington said he expected the chief of the Iranian National Library, Mohammad Bojnourdi, to visit Washington "as part of a normal exchange." A date for that trip has not been set.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A26490-2004Nov4.html (468 words)

	Report of the Librarian of Congress,
		18, "Report of the [Massachusetts House and Senate] Special Joint Committee on the Subject of the Resolutions of Georgia, Proposing a Convention of the People to Revise the Constitution of the United States"
		U.S cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer.
		"The Right of Universalists to Testify in a Court of Justice Vindicated by a Member of the Bar [Cushing]"
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/eadmss/ms000002/ms000002.sgm (2773 words)

	1954 Senate Interim Report - Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency
		Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized and directed to conduct a full and complete study ofjuvenile delinquency in the United States.
		The expenses of the committee under this resolution, which shall not exceed $44,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee.
		An advisory committee that included educators, the superintendent of schools of New York City, and the New York State librarian met with publishers with a view to raising the language levels and improving the story content of comic magazines.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8580/kefauver.html (2773 words)

	United Church of Canada / Victoria University Archives - History - Birge-Carnegie Library Building
		A Library Building Committee, chaired by Burwash, was appointed by the Senate to plan and supervise the project.
		After a decade of being underused, the Birge-Carnegie building was renovated and re-opened as the new home of the United Church of Canada Archives in 1972, and in 1984 the Victoria University Archives moved in to share its quarters.
		As librarian, he became responsible for ensuring that the needs of the library collection and its users were met by the architects' design.
	unitedchurcharchives.vicu.utoronto.ca /Birge.shtml (1109 words)

	Cadept020.htm
		Hearing: Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate: "Nominations of Lawrence Quincy Mumford to be Librarian of Congress." 83rd Congress, 2nd Session (July 26, 1954).
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/albertinventory/Cadept020.htm (1813 words)

	Daniel Alexander Payne Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1861, he went to work at the United States Senate Restaurant managed by his brother who was also a caterer.
		Daniel Alexander Payne Murray ( 1852 or 1853- 1925) Assistant librarian, Library of Congress ; bibliographer, author, politician, and historian was the son of a freed slave.
		Murray married educator Anna Jane Evans, and the couple became a major force in the social and civic life of the District of Columbia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Alexander_Payne_Murray (1813 words)

	China vs. Song Yongyi
		The arrest has placed him at the center of what is becoming one of the highest profile human rights disputes ever between the United States and China, one that Western scholars say could jeopardize academic exchanges that both countries have carefully built up over a generation.
		At a news conference Friday, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will introduce measures in the Senate that would grant Song immediate citizenship and urge the Chinese government to release him.
		Why did China jail the Dickinson College librarian?
	www.post-gazette.com /headlines/20000123yongyi2.asp (1813 words)

	Archived: Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education -- Biography
		On January 21, 2001, the United States Senate confirmed Dr. Rod Paige as the 7th U.S. Secretary of Education.
		For Paige, the son of a principal and a librarian in public schools, that day was the crowning achievement of a long career in education.
		Elected in 1989, Paige was sworn in as a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in January 1990, in which capacities he served until 1994.
	www.ed.gov /news/staff/bios/paige.html (647 words)

	Women's History Resources - The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
		Cromwell began her political career when elected by the Senate as state librarian in 1896.
		The veteran Washington reporter gives her account of instant history at the White House, the result of her covering the administrations of every president since JFK for United Press International.
		Examining her roots in rural Kentucky, where she was born in 1940, Mason unravels her family's history and considers its impact on her as a person and a writer.
	www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/women.htm (2414 words)

	The Magical Libary of Harry Price
		The collection of Harry Price (1881-1948), the publicist of psychical research, developed from a childhood collection of conjuring books into a collection of materials for the cultural history of attitudes to the occult that is unique in the United Kingdom.
		This exhibition celebrates the treasures in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, one of the largest, most well-known and diverse collections in Senate House Library.
		The Magical Library of Harry Price" was researched by Karen Attar, Rare Books Librarian; Feona Hamilton, Special Collections Cataloguer/Project Officer; Roy Moxham, Conservation and Preservation Officer; Mike Mulcay, Team Leader, Special Collections; and Christine Wise, Head of Special Collections.
	www.ull.ac.uk /exhibitions/homepage.shtml (2414 words)

	American History
		Treaties and other international agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949.
		For other historical government documents, please consult the Government Documents Librarian.
		This is a massive collection of legislative reports from House and Senate Committees, treaties, budgets, executive documents from the president to congress, and reports from executive agencies to congress.
	library.bowdoin.edu /rguides/amerhist (2414 words)

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