Book fans' delight...
Library of Congress reading room.*
If you like books and are looking for something to do this weekend, check out the Library of Congress' Annual Book Festival on Saturday.
The event, which is the 15th such festival, will feature more than 170 authors, poets, illustrators and special presenters.
The festival also marks the 200th anniversary of the Library's acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's personal library and has as it theme Jefferson's quote, "I Cannot Live Without Books."
For more on the festival: https://event.crowdcompass.com/natbookfest15
Thomas Jefferson's library, centerpiece of the Library of Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFjV-60wDE
For a tour of the Library of Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPMh1QhlDU
* The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 160 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 37 million books and other print materials, 3.5 million recordings, 14 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 7.1 million pieces of sheet music and 69 million manuscripts. https://www.loc.gov/about/fascinating-facts/
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