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Library of Congress expands at Fort Meade

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 07/11/09

Fort George G. Meade houses its share of secrets, but along the southern edge of the 5,000-acre post is a pristine compound filled with information being preserved for posterity.

Shannon Lee Zirkle — The Capital Steve Herman, chief of the Collections Access, Loan and Management Division for the Library of Congress, shows off new facilities at Fort George G. Meade that will hold maps, charts and other parts of the library’s special format collection.
Steven Herman the chief of collection access and the loan and management division for the The Library of Congress gives a tour of their has a state-of-the-art preservation storage facility at Fort Meade that houses collections of great works of literature, music and photographs. See related story.
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Or, preserved for at least the next 240 years, when the paper documents turn yellow and the ink fades away.

On Tuesday three new additions to the Library of Congress' buildings at the fort were dedicated. In the next three years they will be filled with books, maps, globes, microfilm, prints, photos and other publications.

With the new space, about a third of the world's largest collection of documents could make Fort Meade its...

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