The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Library of Congress (all buildings and facilities)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 2 U.S.C. 136
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-26
- End
- Until further notice (the Library reopened to the public in stages in 2021; not verified) (read as 2020-12-31)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTelework mandateGathering cap
- Addressees
- the public, including researchers and reader-card holders
- Library staff and contractors
- Functions reached
- CT public offices (reading rooms; Copyright Office public services)
- MK public programs and exhibitions
- CB tourism
- OF telework of Library staff
- CS contractors
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
Out of an abundance of caution, all Library of Congress buildings and facilities will be closed to the public, including researchers and others with reader identification cards, until further notice to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 coronavirus. The Library has reduced the number of people in Library buildings to a [minimum].
Enforcement
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