“In 1888, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the sixth Librarian of Congress, detailed his vision for the public reading room in the new Congressional Library…”
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/a-marvel-of-ingenuity-the-librarys-main-reading-room
“In 1888, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the sixth Librarian of Congress, detailed his vision for the public reading room in the new Congressional Library…”
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/a-marvel-of-ingenuity-the-librarys-main-reading-room