New York Public Library, 1907.

Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island. Gegrundet in 1747.

The Library of Congress in Washington.

The cathedral-like ceiling of the now restored Reading Room at the New York Public Library Monday, Sept. 28, 1998. The famous room, as long as a football field and five stories high, was closed for 18 months while hundreds of workers cleaned, mended and restored its glorious Beaux-Arts appearance with the help of the corporate donations of over $15 million.

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A patron of the New York Public Library, inserts a new library access card at a new computer station in the newly renovated Reading Room of the New York Public Library Thursday, Nov. 12, 1998. With Internet access wired into its 90-year-old oak desks and murals of the sky repainted on its cathedral-like ceiling, the Reading Room has been restored to its original splendor and made ready for the next

century.

The Los Angeles Central Library stands in this 1993 photo, celebrating its 125 years of existence in Los Angeles. The library has grown into a free institution encompassing 68 branches, more than 1.1 million cardholders and a state-of-the-art computer system that keeps track of 6 million volumes and links the library to the world via the Internet. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)

Librarians and library volunteers open boxes of books which were donated to the Oakland Public Library, in May 2003. Facing budget problems, local public libraries went online to ask the public to buy and donate books to them. The Oakland Public Library put a wishlist on Amazon.com and within 3 weeks had received more than 400 books. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

First lady Laura Bush hands out books to local students, after reading to them at the first National Book Festival at the Library of Congress Friday, Sept. 7, 2001, in Washington. The festival is hosted by Mrs. Bush and sponsored by the Library of Congress.

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