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TITLE: News Conference on the Library of Congress' "Digitizing American Imprints" Program

SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 01/14/2009
RUNNING TIME: 21 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress Associate Librarian for Library Services; Doron Weber, Program Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and officials of the Internet Archive participated in a news conference on the Library's "Digitizing American Imprints" program scanning "brittle books" too fragile for standard use, to preserve them, on an open-content basis, for future generations.

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