Year 2006 at a Glance
Welcomed more than 1.4 million on-site visitors.
Provided reference services to 633,396 individuals (in-person, by telephone, and through written and electronic correspondence).
Total of 134,517,714 items in the collections, including:
- 20,532,692 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system
- 11,591,309 books in large type and raised characters, incunabula (books printed before 1501), monographs and serials, music, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports, and other printed material
- 102,393,713 items in the nonclassified (special) collections. These included:
- 2,834,692 audio materials, such as discs, tapes, talking books, and other recorded formats
- 59,469,053 total manuscripts
- 4,807,827 maps
- 14,047,798 microforms
- 5,275,222 music
- 14,299,103 visual materials, including:
- 1,023,909 moving images
- 12,476,824 photographs
- 92,960 posters
- 542,315 prints and drawings
Circulated nearly 23 million disc, cassette and Braille items to more than 500,000 blind and physically handicapped patrons.
Registered 520,906 claims to copyright.
Completed 933,430 research assignments for the Congress through the Congressional Research Service.
Recorded nearly 89 million visits, 458 million page views and 4.6 billion "hits" on all of the Library's public computer systems. At year's end, the Library's American Memory online historical collections contained 11 million digital files.
Employed a permanent staff of 3,783 employees.
Operated with a total fiscal 2006 appropriation of $603,623,000, including authority to spend $41.9 million in receipts.