Library of Congress

The ‘History Channel’ aired a documentary on Library of Congress. The episode was titled “The Real National Treasure”. The documentary featured interviews of fifty staff members about the activities at library. There are millions of books, manuscripts, photos, maps and other rare items. The Library of congress has preserved some of he rare items through scientific methods and a lot of books and other documents have been digitized to make them easily accessible to general public.

The documentary will exhibit some digitized images for viewers while touring the ‘Thomas Jefferson building’. Some of the exhibits include Mozart’s hand written music, rare manuscripts and maps and collection of musical instruments.

The documentary will be available on internet and DVDs and there are repeat telecasts for those who miss the debut telecast.

The Library of Congress is ‘the largest library’ in the world as it keeps the record number of books. The library was established in 1800 and was destroyed in 1812 during the war. Thomas Jefferson sold his personal collection of books to the library in 1815. It flourished after the civil war. The books can be drawn by high ranking Govt. officials, Judges of Supreme court and the legislators. General public can visit the library and consult books for research. There are nearly thirty-two million books in 470 languages. The library is located in Capitol Hill and three buildings connected by underground passages house the national treasure. ‘Thomas Jefferson building’, ‘John Adams building’ and ‘James Madison memorial building’ house the library materials.