2 U.S.C. § 149 — Transfer of books to other libraries

This law lets the Librarian of Congress give away books the Library no longer needs. The Librarian can transfer them to other government libraries in Washington, D.C. This includes the Public Library. The Librarian only sends books that, in the judgment of the receiving library's staff, would actually be useful to them. The Librarian may also dispose of or destroy material that has become useless. But there is one hard limit built into this law: no records of the federal government may be transferred, disposed of, or destroyed under the authority this section grants. That protection cannot be gotten around.