{"id":16,"date":"2007-04-25T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T23:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/04\/25\/happy-belated-birthday-library-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:43:43","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated Birthday, Library of Congress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress, the largest in the nation with over 30 million volumes, turned 207 yesterday. It was in 1800 that Congress allocated funds of $5,000  to start a library, which began with 740 books and three maps. If only that same amount of money could do that much now.<\/p>\n<p>So how does a library such as the Library of Congress celebrate their birthday? By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/blog\/\">starting a blog<\/a>, of course!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/gpologo.gif\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Government Printing Office logo\" height=\"58\" width=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress, the largest in the nation with over 30 million volumes, turned 207 yesterday. It was in 1800 that Congress allocated funds of $5,000 to start a library, which began with 740 books and three maps. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[175,783,189],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","tag-blogs","tag-government-info","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}