ABSTRACT
In 1980, the Copyright Office received 532,678 articles deposited for copyright, and 368,813 of them were transferred to the Library for its own use. The Copyright Office offers all its receipts to the Library. As a rule, the Library selects two-thirds, and what it does acquire can be generalized simply. The items selected by the Library of Congress are completely redescribed by the catalogers in Processing Services before being added to the Library's collections and catalogs. The Library ultimately receives practically everything the federal government produces. It would like to get such material when it is new but will also accept it when it is old. The Library's position is one of a supplicant, appealing to an organization for its materials for the use of the federal government or as a contribution to a central depository of US history.
