2 U.S.C. § 131 — Collections composing Library; location

submitted 129 years ago by Pub. L. 94-553 to r/title-2-THE-CONGRESS · 63 words · no verdicts yet

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The Library of Congress includes all books, maps, and publications that existed there by December 1, 1873. It also includes items added later by purchase, exchange, donation, or copyright deposit. All of this is kept in the Library Building.

The Library of Congress is made up of everything that was already in its collections as of December 1, 1873. That includes books, maps, and other publications that had been brought together earlier under various laws. The Library keeps growing: new material comes in through purchase, exchange, donation, material set aside from publications Congress orders, copyright-law deposits, and other means. All of these items are kept in the Library Building.

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The Library of Congress, composed of the books, maps, and other publications which on December 1, 1873, remained in existence, from the collections theretofore united under authority of law and those added from time to time by purchase, exchange, donation, reservation from publications ordered by Congress, acquisition of material under the copyright law, and otherwise, shall be preserved in the Library Building.

Source credit: (R.S. § 80; Feb. 19, 1897, ch. 265, § 1, 29 Stat. 545, 546; Pub. L. 94–553, title I, § 105(g), Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2599; Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(i) [title III, § 310], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–290, 1329–310.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1897Enacted · Act of Feb. 19, 1897, ch. 265 · 29 Stat. 545, 546
1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-553 · 90 Stat. 2599
1987Amended · Pub. L. 100-202 · 101 Stat. 1329

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