---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 173"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "173"
heading: "Establishment of Center for the Book"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/173"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Library of Congress"
---

# §173. Establishment of Center for the Book


There is hereby established in the Library of Congress a Center for the Book.

The Center shall be under the direction of the [Librarian](/usc/2/179u.md?p=1) of Congress.


## Source credit

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