Jefferson believed that the American legislature needed ideas and information on all subjects and in many languages in order to govern a democracy, and it was this belief that led to the comprehensive collecting policies the Library of Congress still fulfills today. The Library of Congress is the world's largest library, with more than 115 million items in nearly every known language and format, from ancient Chinese woodblock prints to microchips. The collections include the papers of 23 presidents, and the manuscripts of many eminent Americans such as Booker T. Washington, Walt Whitman, Alexander Graham Bell, Susan B. Anthony and Irving Berlin. Other treasures include the first book printed in the Western world, the earliest surviving copyrighted film, and millions of maps, atlases, photographs, posters, microfilms, movies, rare books, musical scores, and radio and television broadcasts.
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