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Article: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LAUNCHES WEB SITE DEVOTED TO EFFORT TO CAPTURE WEB SITES FOR PRESERVATION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 25, 2006
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The Library of Congress issued the following news release:
The Library of Congress has just launched a Web site devoted to information about its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites so that they can be accessed by future generations of users.
The site is available at www.loc.gov/webcapture.
The Library of Congress and libraries and archives around the world are interested in collecting and preserving content on the Web because an ever-increasing amount of the world's cultural and intellectual output is created in digital formats and does not exist in any physical form. Creating an archives of Web sites supports the goals of the Library's Digital Strategic Plan, ...