[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