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*[[John W. Kluge Center|Kluge Center]], started with a grant of $60 million from [[John W. Kluge]] in 2000, brings international scholars and researchers to use library resources and to interact with policymakers and the public. It hosts public lectures and scholarly events, provides endowed Kluge fellowships, and awards the [[Kluge Prize|Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity]] (now worth $1.5 million), the first Nobel-level international prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and social sciences (subjects not included in the [[Nobel awards]]);<ref>{{Cite web |title=The John W. Kluge Center – Library of Congress |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/ |website=Loc.gov |access-date=September 22, 2015 |archive-date=September 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920064635/http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

*[[Open World Leadership Center]], established in 2000; by 2015 this program administered 23,000 professional exchanges for emerging post-Soviet leaders in Russia, Ukraine, and other successor states of the former [[USSR]]. Open World began as a Library of Congress project, and later was established as an independent agency in the legislative branch.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Founding Chairman {{!}} OpenWorld |url=http://www.openworld.gov/about-us/founding-chairman |website=openworld.gov |access-date=September 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905053401/http://www.openworld.gov/about-us/founding-chairman |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*[[National Audio-Visual Conservation Center]] opened in 2007 at a 45-acre site in [[Culpeper, Virginia]], established with a gift of more than $150 million by the [[Packard Humanities Institute]], and $82.1 million in additional support from Congress.