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  2. National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled

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    The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled [1] (NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials such as books and magazines circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States and American citizens living abroad by postage-free mail and online download. The program is sponsored by the Library of Congress.

  3. National Digital Library Program - Wikipedia

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    The National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is a project by the United States Library of Congress to assemble a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. The NDLP brought online 24 million books and documents from the Library of Congress and other research ...

  4. Library of Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Story Up to Now: The Library of Congress, 1800–1946 (1947), detailed narrative; Ostrowski, Carl. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861 (2004) Rosenberg, Jane Aiken. The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)

  5. Internet Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Library of Congress created numerous Handle System identifiers that pointed to free digitized books in the Internet Archive. [116] The Internet Archive and Open Library are listed on the Library of Congress website as a source of e-books. [117]

  6. Open Library - Wikipedia

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    Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.

  7. James H. Billington - Wikipedia

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    Open World began as a Library of Congress project, and later became an independent agency in the legislative branch. Billington is founder and was chairman of the board of trustees. [38] The Fiction Prize (now the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction) created in 2008 to recognize distinguished lifetime achievement in the writing of ...

  8. Wikipedia:List of free online resources - Wikipedia

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    Free download - for scientific purposes - of high quality data on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany. Project Gutenberg's shelf of historic, public domain Anthropology Books; Library of Congress Resource Links on Anthropology

  9. World Digital Library - Wikipedia

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    The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner ...