Library of Congress E-books
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A small percentage of the Library's collections are available in digital form. Most e-books from the Library of Congress can be found in the Internet Archive  . In addition to public domain works, Library of Congress publications such as annual reports, illustrated collection guides, Federal Research Division country studies, and a history of the Library of Congress are available as e-books. Other collections follow:
There are more than 1,200 digitized books available through the Library's American Memory collections. American Memory is a Library initiative that digitizes American multimedia collections, including books, audiovisual materials, maps and manuscripts dating from 1400 to the present day.
The Library's Digital Interlibrary Loan Program was designed to provide access to books too fragile to circulate on interlibrary loan, and was discontinued in early 2008. However, there are more than 1,000 full-text books available in its collection.
The Library’s Global Gateway holds more than 500 digitized books. Global Gateway contains links to bilingual, multimedia digital collections built with international partners, and a listing of individual digital collections that focus on history and cultures around the world.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a grant to the Library of Congress in 2007. The program, "Digitizing American Imprints at the Library of Congress," scans and digitizes public domain works, with a major focus on at-risk brittle books and U.S. history volumes. The full text of all Library of Congress e-books in cooperation with the Sloan Foundation (more than 80,000 titles as of March 16, 2011) can be found in the Internet Archive .
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