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, Washington, D.C.)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 2 U.S.C. 136; 2 U.S.C. 167f
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12
- End
- Extended Mar. 26, 2020 'until further notice' (092) (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capEvents and venues
- Addressees
- the public, including researchers and reader-card holders
- program attendees
- Functions reached
- CT public offices (reading rooms closed to researchers)
- MK public programs and exhibitions
- CB tourism (about 1.9 million visitors a year to the Jefferson Building)
- CS event vendors
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
NOTE: The Library will be closed to the public, including researchers and others with reader identification cards, until Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 8 a.m. to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 coronavirus. During the closure, all Library-sponsored public programs (including 'Understanding 99 Percent of the Universe,' scheduled for March 25) are postponed or cancelled.
Enforcement
2 U.S.C. 167a-167j (Capitol Police enforcement of Library building regulations)
Notes
The Library's dedicated Mar. 12, 2020 closure release was not located; this contemporaneous release carries the Library's own closure notice in terms.
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