【聪明的馆长】 馆长陈之汉
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美国的国会图书馆已有200多年的历史，是美国四个官方国家图书馆之一，也是全球最重要的图书馆之一，在美国文化中占有重要地位。 目前，该图书馆的藏书有1亿多册，书架的总长超过了800公里。这里还有来自伊拉克古代的陶制书写板、第一幅标明“美洲”字样的地图、斯特拉蒂瓦里制作的小提琴、100多年前的电影拷贝，以及最新的嘻哈音乐录音。
参观者最喜爱的展品中，有一套是林肯总统在戏院遇刺当晚的随身物品：一副眼镜、一些纸币，以及部分报纸剪报。可是，2007年的一天，一个图书管理员对毕灵顿馆长说，这里的有些书因为太难读懂，从来没有人看。
毕灵顿博士于1987年成为美国国会图书馆的第13位馆长，之后一直连任。他是一个睿智的学者。
听了那位管理员的话，他沉思了一下说，这件事由他想办法解决。
第二天，毕灵顿馆长让管理员把那些无人借阅的书都收集在一起，放在一个引人注目的地方，然后写了一块牌放在上面：“告诫大家，这些书很难读，只有学问渊博的人才能读懂。”
很快，这些很久无人借阅的书就全部被借出去了。
现在，毕灵顿馆长的名字和前12任馆长的名字一起，被镌刻在杰斐逊大楼一侧的大理石墙壁上，迎接着人们充满敬意的目光。
As one of the four national libraries of the United States and one of the most important libraries worldwide, the Library of Congress has a long history of more than 200 years, playing an important role in American culture.
At present, the library boasts over 100 million copies of books, the total length of its shelves exceeding 800 kilometers. It has such collections as pottery writing boards of ancient Iraq, a map bearing the first use of the name“America”, the violin made by Antonio Stradivari, film copies produced over 100 years ago, and the up-to-the-minute hip hop music recordings.
Among the most popular exhibits, there is a set of belongings President Lincoln carried on the very night of his assassination at Ford’s Theatre: a pair of glasses, some notes and newspaper clippings. However, one day in 2007, a librarian said to James H. Billington, the librarian of the Library of Congress, that some books were so profound that nobody had borrowed them.
Dr. Billington was appointed as the 13th librarian of the Library of Congress in 1987 and has been working there ever since. As a wise scholar, he pondered for a second and said that he would seek a way to solve the problem.
The next day, Librarian Billington asked his librarians to collect those books that nobody had borrowed and place them in a conspicuous position. And then, a board was put on the books, “A note of caution: these books are very difficult to read. Only very learned people understand them.”
Thus very soon, those books in which nobody had showed any interest for a long time were all borrowed.
Now, on a side marble wall of the Thomas Jefferson Building Librarian Billington’s name is engraved together with those of his 12 predecessors, to which visitors pay respect.
