id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15439 Jones, Plummer Alston Conaway, James. America’s Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800–2000. Foreword by James H. Billington; Introduction by Edmund Morris. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Pr., in association with the Library of Congress, 2000. 226p. $45, alk. paper (ISBN 0-300-08308-4). LC 99-058751. 2001-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1902 92 57 James Conaway’s history of the Library of Congress focuses on the thirteen Li­ brarians of Congress who have served our national library for the past two hun­ dred years. Under legislation signed by Presi­ dent Ulysses S. Grant in 1870, the Library of Congress became the sole depository for copyrighted works, a role previously shared with the Smithsonian. cache/crl-15439.pdf txt/crl-15439.txt