Libraries libraries are one of the signs of development and progress in the nations, which have been interested in all civilizations since the beginning of blogging and the proliferation of books and manuscripts in the world; libraries are one of the best investments that can be invested by the person; investment in libraries is an investment in the minds of people and a way to provide information and improve the thought of society As a whole, and therefore we see the great societies in every era of the ages contain the largest libraries of the world, as well as in the present age as well. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It is the Library of Congress, the world's largest library. The Library of Congress was founded in 1800 AD. In 1814, the British Embassy burned the main building of the library, burning about 3,000 books. In 1815 The library purchased the private library of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America and one of its founders, which contained about 6,500 books for $ 24,000. The library currently contains more than one hundred and sixty million pieces, including 37 million books, millions of films, manuscripts, various documents and even musical compositions. The library consists of approximately 1,350 km of bookshelves and continues to grow continuously. The library now receives about 12,000 different pieces every day in different ways, whether by gift, purchase of pieces or others. Its offices around the world Since the 1960s, the Library of Congress has opened various offices around the world in more than sixty countries to collect various objects from around the world. The Library has materials in more than 470 languages around the world, making up more than half of the library's contents , The library contains more than six hundred thousand copies in the blogging languages that are not related to Roman origins, which were collected from the Middle East and Africa, namely from our Arab countries in particular, in addition to more than three million purposes of Asian countries, in addition to The largest collection of materials in the language Russian outside of Russia, which is approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand items and this in addition to books from other places in the world, like States Latin America and the European and others. The library contains about three million copies of the law, some of which are very rare books or rarer books in law around the world. The library also contains many rare manuscripts and books from around the world, containing nearly 100 rare books Children's Books, the Children's Bible printed in Philadelphia in 1763, contains the world's smallest book, the world's largest book, and the world's oldest typography printed in 770 BC. The Gutenberg Gospel, purchased by the Library in 1930, is one of its treasures.
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