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The work of the National Archives is dedicated to two main functions: public engagement and federal records and information management. The National Archives administers 15 Presidential Libraries and Museums, a museum in Washington, D.C., that displays the Charters of Freedom, and 15 research facilities across the country. [11]
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.
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
In some countries, national libraries serve the same purpose as national archives - or have archival departments. Among their more important tasks is ensuring the accessibility and preservation of the information produced by governments, both analogically and digitally, for the government itself, researchers and the public.
Papers Past – Digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 2,000,000 New Zealand newspaper pages. Trove – Digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 5,000,000 Australian newspaper pages. Elephind – text searchable free database of approximately 2,700 newspapers.
It is a national-level program based at the Library of Congress that seeks to promote free access to the documentary heritage of the United States. It does this by providing cataloging for archives and historical societies around the country that do not have access to national online databases. [1]
The national library was created in 1952 and became a component of the archives with the Library and Archives of Canada Act in 2004. [17] Regardless of the relative newness of the archive, Canadians reacted to the 1945 disappearance of papers from the archives about Igor Gouzenko as if it were a disturbing case of collective memory -loss.
National Archives at the London University School of Advanced Studies History Day, November 2015. The National Archives's education web page is a free online resource for teaching and learning history, aimed at teachers and students. [46] Users can select time periods they are interested in, from the medieval era to the present day.