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麥迪遜大樓裡的法律圖書館在1832年時約收藏了2千本書

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詹姆士麥迪遜 (James Madison) 總統於1815130日同意國會決定購買湯瑪斯傑佛遜圖書館的法案

圖書館對你而言有多重要呢?湯瑪斯傑佛遜與美國政府認為圖書館是相當重要的,這也是為什麼詹姆士麥迪遜總統在1815130日,會同意國會撥款23950美元購買湯瑪斯傑佛遜私人圖書館法案的原因。美國的第一個國會圖書館在1814年遭到破壞。英國在那年佔領華盛頓特區之後,燒燬了位在美國首府收藏有3000本書籍的圖書館。


How important are libraries to you? Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. government saw a library as essential. That's why on January 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson's personal library. The United States' first Library of Congress was destroyed in 1814. After capturing Washington, D.C., that year, the British burned the U.S. Capitol where the 3,000-volume library was stored.

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