Library of Congress

Before Twitter, before Elon Musk X, before Oprah Winfrey, before social media, was the typewriter.

The Library of Congress is in the United States of America. The whole world knows about it, because that country inherited many countries from its mother, England. We are ruled by America, so we learn about it in school. Education is the conqueror’s history, present and future.

Community, school and university libraries are in trouble, because of a little upstart: the internet. That’s why I’m wondering how it affects bigger libraries, like the Library of Congress. I wonder what they keep in those shelves. Books probably. It’s a library isn’t it? How about library cards? Do congressmen and congresswomen have them? Presidents are exempt I suppose. The Head Librarian knows them, so they don’t swipe any cards, and they are not subjected to electronic body searches.

Aah! Talking about librarians, the Library of Congress should have assistant librarians that manage the various departments. I would imagine that the library keeps hand written letters written before the advent of the Remington typewriter. Very important letters, that made the country balloon from 13 to 50 states. Surely, there must be assistant librarians responsible for photography because there must be a vault where they keep portraits of former presidents like the disgraced Harry Truman, the celebrated Theodore Roosevelt, the farming Jimmy Carter, the Hollywood Ronald Reagan, the two George Bushes, the intellectual Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, the hard-to-define ex-president.

Now let’s count. How many departments does the Library of Congress have? Google it.

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