(LENA REYNA) The Library of Congress is planning to post the winning poems as an online collection on its Poetry for the Mind's Joy Web site.

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To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.

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During World War II, Lambeth Palace's Great Hall - which housed much of the library's early collection - took a direct hit from an incendiary bomb.

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Water-damaged pieces of the library's historic collection were moved to Oxford by a team of salvage experts following the fire on 26 April.

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