Year: 1983
Type: article
Abstract: INAUGUST 1935 the Library of Congress (LC) opened a reading room for American local history and genealogy on deck 47 in the Thomas Jefferson Building.The reading room was to provide improved service for those coming from all parts of the United States to consult LC's exceptionally large and important collections of genealogy and state and local history.Since that time the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room (LH&G), now a section of the General Reading Rooms Division, has had five physical homes, three administrative locations, and various hours of service to patrons. Tradition of ServiceOver the years many prominent genealogists, members of Congress and government officials have used the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room.For example, the National Institute on Genealogical Research, begun in 1950 at the National Archives, has sent many of its participants on orientation tours to LH&G, and Earl Gregg Swem compiled his monumental Virginia Historical Index' at the Library of Congress in the early 1930s using the library's collections.
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W329998395