From Oct. 1, 2003, to Sept. 30, 2004, the Library of Congress:
Welcomed more than 1 million on-site visitors.
Provided reference services to 682,264 individuals (in-person, by telephone, and through written and electronic correspondence).
Contained 130,198,420 items in the collections, including:
- 19,729,698 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system
- 9,821,216 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
- 100,647,514 items in the nonclassified (special) collections.
These included:
2,710,882 audio materials, such as discs,
tapes, talking books, and other recorded formats
58,479,431 total manuscripts
4,807,827 maps
14,047,798 microforms
5,190,359 music
13,914,990 visual materials — this total included:
957,794 moving images
12,338,513 photographs
89,241 posters
529,442 prints and drawings - Registered 661,469 claims to copyright.
- Completed 899,284 research assignments for Congress through the Congressional Research Service.
- Recorded more than 3.3 billion transactions on all of the Library's public computer systems. At year's end the library's American Memory online historical collections contained 9.5 million items.
- Employed a permanent staff of 4,120 employees.
- Operated with a total fiscal 2004 appropriation of $559,299,548, including authority to spend $36.3 million in receipts.
