The International Role of the Library of Congress: A Brief History
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1990
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Library of Congress Information Bulletin
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49
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January
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15-18; 45
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Adapted from a paper presented at the meeting of the IFLA Round Table on Library History, Paris, August 23, 1989. The full text was published in the journal Alexandria, volume 1, no.3, 1989
Argues that in the twentieth century the Library of Congress had taken on a global leadership role through developments such as the LC classification system and the MARC format.
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