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# 2 U.S.C. § 173 - Establishment of Center for the Book

## Text

There is hereby established in the Library of Congress a Center for the Book. The Center shall be under the direction of the Librarian of Congress.

(Pub. L. 95–129, § 3, Oct. 13, 1977, 91 Stat. 1151.)