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Discusses the appearance of seven members of the American Library Association before the joint committee on the Library of Congress in Washington. Passage of a bill containing appropriations available up to the end of June 1897; Recommendations for librarians' salaries and book appropriations; The Congressional Library as a white elephant on the hands of Congress; Why it should be a National Library; More; Reprinted from `Library Journal,' January 1897.

Focuses on the history of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Role of Thomas Jefferson in rebuilding the library after the British burned the Capitol during the War of 1812; Jefferson's classification scheme; Reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's library as part of the commemoration plans for the Library of Congress' bicentennial in 2000. INSET: Gifts to the Nation.

Reports that eleven libraries, museums, and historical societies have garnered awards from the Library of Congress (LC)/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. American Memory, the four-year-old LC initiative to place millions of historic items online; Listing of the individual winners.

Focuses on the 1897 opening of the United States Library of Congress. Signing of legislation in 1800 by U.S. President John Adams, which appropriated the funds for the library; Development of the Library of Congress Classification scheme; Creation of the Machine Readable Cataloging Format (MARC) for disseminating bibliographic data;