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World’s largest library, Library of Congress, trying to bring in a new generation of readers

If you walk inside the main building of the world’s largest library, you won’t see many books. There are marble floors, stained-glass windows, elaborately tiled ceilings and gold-leaf doors. The Library of Congress, 13-year-old Jack DiPaula says, feels “more like a museum” than the public library in his hometown of Baltimore.