| [00:53] | The Library of Congress is America's national library.It has more than 120 million books and other objects. |
| [01:07] | It has newspapers, popular publications and letters of historical interests. |
| [01:13] | It also has maps, photographs, art prints, movies, sound recordings and musical in struments. |
| [01:21] | The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through the Saturday except for government holidays |
| [01:29] | Anyone may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is permitted to take books out of the building. |
| [01:37] | The Library of Congress provides books and materials to the United States Congress. |
| [01:44] | It also lends books to other America libraries, government agencies and foreign libraries. |
| [01:52] | It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. |
| [01:56] | It also gets materials through its copyright office |
| [02:00] | Anyone who wants copyright protection for a publication must send two copies to the library. |
| [02:08] | This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything published in the United States |
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