在担任驻法大使时,托马斯·杰弗逊走遍了各类书店,收购所有有关美国的书藉。退休后他捐赠给国会的6487本书就成为国会图书馆的基础。今天的美国国会图书馆,藏有8600多万件书藉、文件,包括人类的各种知识,其中有2000多万件书是用60种语言编写,同时还有3600万件手稿;400万件地图,1000万件图片照片;75000种期刊和1200种报纸。国会图书馆除了对外开放,免费服务以外,重要的是每年要答复约45件以上的国会询问函件、准备法案节要,以及有关国外立法和法律疑难。这就是为什么在5000名工 While serving as ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson traveled to bookshops and acquired all the books on the United States. The 6,487 books he donated to the Diet after his retirement form the foundation of the Library of Congress. Today’s Library of Congress houses more than 86 million books, documents, and human knowledge, of which over 20 million are in 60 languages ​​and 36 million are manuscripts; 4 million Map, 10 million photo pictures; 75,000 journals and 1,200 newspapers. In addition to opening to the outside world and free services, the Library of Congress has the important task of answering more than 45 parliamentary inquiry letters every year, preparing bills and other relevant foreign legislation and legal issues. This is why 5000 workers