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Friday, February 14, 2003

$100M from Congress for digital archives

Congress has given $25M already and plans to give another $75M (as long as it can be matched by the private sector) to bolster the collection of all things digital for its archives according to this New York Times story (registration required):

In the strongest signal to date of its commitment to preserving the nation's digital legacy, Congress has set aside $100 million for the Library of Congress to carry out a plan for collecting and preserving digital information, including images, CD's, Web pages and electronic journals....

"I don't think we've ever had a single shot of this size in our entire history," said James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress.

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