Library of Congress Reading Room
by Suzanne Stout
Title
Library of Congress Reading Room
Artist
Suzanne Stout
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The Main Reading Room is the principal point for gaining access to the Library's general collections of books and bound periodicals. Every day, hundreds of books and bound periodical volumes are delivered from the stacks for use in the Main Reading Room. Even researchers who will go on to work in one of the specialized reading rooms often begin their work in the Main Reading Room in order to use the electronic resources in the Microform and Electronic Resources Center (LJ-139, the former Computer Catalog Center), to consult the Main Card Catalog, to obtain an orientation to the Library as a whole, or to use some of the approximately 70,000 volumes in the Main Reading Room reference collection.
Researchers in the Main Reading Room are assisted by a staff of skilled reference librarians. Each member of the reference staff is also a subject specialist as well as a generalist. A number hold advanced degrees in their fields, and many serve as guest lecturers at universities, deliver papers at conferences, publish in professional journals, or contribute to scholarly collections and reference works. Support staff in the Reading Room retrieve requested items from the stacks and work to locate missing materials.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Division periodically offers a 90-minute research orientation for first-time users. This course is a general introduction to the Library of Congress collections and resources, and includes some information on the Library's microform collections. More information and a schedule of research orientations is available in the Library of Congress publication Information for Researchers.
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February 15th, 2015
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