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The most desirable room to photograph here isn't open for photography: It's the dome in the main reading room, and if memory serves, it appears, spinning, in the movie "All The President's Men".
Photoshopped version of one of the Library of Congress' "no known copyright restriction" photos recently uploaded to Flickr. Original seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179849362/
Many of Bergen County New Jersey’s earliest settlers were Lutherans. Originally these settlers had to attend church in New Bridge (Hackensack / River Edge area) or Remmerspack (now Mahwah) at the Ramapough Lutheran Church. As the Saddle River valley became more settled, the Lutherans organized a local congregation, and every fourth Sunday they used the Reformed Church in Upper Saddle River for worship. This arrangement did not last long and services where then held at the home of Thomas Van Buskirk, using the barn in the summer and the garret (attic) in the winter.
In 1819 the congregation decided to build a church. Andrew Esler, chairman of the building committee, designed the church. The land was donated by Thomas Van Buskirk and David I. Ackerman. The corner stone was laid on October 4, 1820. A bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, a bible and a hymn book were placed within the stone. On October 14, 1821, the Rev. Dr. Schaeffer preached the dedication of the new church building. The new church was named the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle River and Ramapough. In 1900 the name was changed to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle River. It is the oldest church building in Bergen County and the sixth oldest church in New Jersey to be associated with a Lutheran congregation.
Alexis Saint-Léger, L’ordre des oiseaux, illustrated by George Braque, Paris, Au vent d'Arles, 1962 – from the collection of the Library of Congress
The main reading room (in Jefferson) is able to get all the books from Adams, which has all the technology and business books. However, I was researching Johann Niklaus von Dreyse (inventer of the bolt-action rifle and thus the "needle gun", which basically ensured a Prussian victory over Austria in the Austro-Prussian war), and the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. Both topics were mostly covered by this reading room, and the time between requesting a book and actually having it brought to me was reduced from 1 hour to 20-30 minutes, and I was occasionally able to find them on the shelf. So this is the Adams building, fifth floor.