The Library of CongressThe Library of Congress is Americas national library. It has millions of books and other objects. It has newspapers, popular publications and letters of historical interest. It also has maps, photographs, art prints, movies, sound recordings and musical instruments. All together, it has more than 100 million objects.国会图书馆是美国的国家图书馆馆藏数百万册书籍和其他物品，包括报纸、通俗出版物和有历史趣味的信件，还有地图、照片、艺术图片、电影、唱片和乐器总共有一亿多件物品The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for government holidays. Anyone may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is permitted to take books out of the building.国会图书馆除了政府假期之外，周一至周六都对公众开放。
任何人都可以去那儿，阅读其中任何一种读物但是没有人可以将书带出图书馆The Library of Congress was established in 1800. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol Building. By 1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were all destroyed that year when the Capitol was burned during Americas war with Britain.国会图书馆始建于1800年刚开始时它仅在国会大厦内的一个房间里，拥有11箱书到1814年，藏书增至3000册左右也就是那一年，在美英战争期间，国会大厦被焚，全部藏书也都付之一炬了To help re-build the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jeffersons collection included 7,000 books in seven languages.为了帮助重建图书馆，国会购买了托马斯杰弗逊总统的藏书。
杰弗逊先生的藏书中包括七种不同语言的7000多册书In 1897, the Library moved to its own building across the street from the Capitol. Today, three buildings hold the librarys collection.1897年，图书馆移至它自己的大楼内，与国会大厦隔街相望如今，三幢建筑收藏着图书馆的藏品The Library of Congress provides books and materials to the United States Congress. It also lends books to other American libraries, government agencies and foreign libraries. It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. It also gets materials through its copyright office. Anyone who wants copyright protection for a publication must send two copies to the library. This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything published in the United States.国会图书馆为美国国会提供书籍和资料。
它还向美国其他图书馆，政府机构和外国图书馆提供借书服务它自己买一部分书，也得到别人的一些赠书，还通过自己的版权局获取在美国，要取得出版物的版权保护都必须向该图书馆赠送两册书这意味着国会图书馆几乎可以获得在美国出版的任何东西Computer users can learn more about the Library of Congress and its collection on the Internet. The address is www.loc.gov.电脑用户可以在互联网上获取更多关于国会图书馆和馆藏品的情况网址是www.loc.gov.3。