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The real national treasure : an inside look at the Library of Congress.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: AAAE232020 | A&E Television NetworksPublisher: [New York] : A&E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, 2010Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 47 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9781422995792
  • 1422995798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 027.573 22
Production credits:
  • Edited by David Beatty.
Narrated by Max Raphael.Summary: Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them priceless treasures - from George Washington's hand-written diaries to Galileo's first images of the moon to the original camera film of the movie Frankenstein. See how a staff of 4000 catalogues protects and preserves these treasures and distributes them globally via a new World Digital Library.
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DVD Idaho Springs Public Library DVD Nonfiction DVD NF REA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100117751

Originally produced as an episode of the television program Modern marvels in 2009.

Container erroneously states program is closed-captioned.

Bonus feature: The Library of Congress experience.

Edited by David Beatty.

Narrated by Max Raphael.

Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them priceless treasures - from George Washington's hand-written diaries to Galileo's first images of the moon to the original camera film of the movie Frankenstein. See how a staff of 4000 catalogues protects and preserves these treasures and distributes them globally via a new World Digital Library.

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