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Oct 1, 2014 · The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a classification system that was first developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to organize and arrange the book collections of the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress collections contain over 171 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources. The LC Catalog contains over 20 million records describing these collections.
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The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials. The Online Catalog also displays searching aids for users, such as cross-references and scope notes.
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