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How the Library of Congress Became a Universal Library
The Library of Congress holds more than 170 million items and grows by 10,000 a day. It started as a few hundred law books in the Capitol, burned by British troops in 1814, then rebuilt around Thomas Jefferson's personal library of 6,487 volumes. This episode traces the five expansions that turned a legislative reference shelf into a global public good: Jefferson's intellectual scope, Ainsworth Rand Spofford's copyright deposit firehose, Herbert Putnam's cataloging standards, the overseas acquisition offices, and the digital preservation problem that still isn't solved. Along the way: the…
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