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• Acker Library updates "DAWIA ANNOTATED—current law"

  - 2008-07-01

  The Defense Acquisition University's Acker Library and Knowledge Repository recently updated "DAWIA ANNOTATED." The updated version includes annotations and footnotes showing the historical development of the original Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act and amendments to the act since 1990. This current version of DAWIA is a valuable resource to the...

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• Library of Congress joins UNESCO for online global library

  - 2007-10-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — The world's biggest library, the US Library of Congress, has teamed up with UNESCO and libraries from around the globe in an ambitious project to digitize priceless cultural material and make it available on the Internet. "When The World Digital Library is launched, and we're looking...

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• Where to find information

  - 2007-09-13

  Here are three Web sites where newspaper projects are being conducted: University of Utah -- www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/ Library of Congress -- www.loc.gov/rr/news/ United States Newspapers -- www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

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• U.S. must act to preserve digital data

  - 2007-05-20

  It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than...

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• Military Legal Resources Site at Library of Congress

  - 2006-06-01

  The Library of Congress Federal Research Division hosts a Military Legal Resources page on its public Web site. Launched in July 2003, the site is at www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/military-legal-resources-home.html. The division is the fee-for-service research and analysis group in the Library of Congress that provides its services to executive- and...

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• Library of Congress seeks digital library to build bridges between cultures

  - 2005-11-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Library of Congress launched an ambitious campaign to create an online database of rare books, manuscripts, posters, stamps and other artifacts, available to users around the world via the Internet. James Billington, head of the Library of Congress, which houses one of the world's...

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• French, US libraries launch website on French history in America

  - 2005-05-10

  PARIS AFP — The US Library of Congress and the French National Library have joined forces to launch a bilingual website exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the 16th to early 19th centuries. The site, which includes more than 100,000 images from the rare...

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• Commentary: Library of Congress is national treasure

  - 2004-07-07

  Anticipating the celebration of our nation's 228th birthday, my rekindled patriotic spirit initially wanted to find out more about the first Continental Congress. While looking on the Internet, however, I subsequently became intrigued with the unique and interesting history of the Library of Congress. I learned...

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• Broadband drives internet growth. (Market Trends).

  - 2003-05-01

  IDC predicts that the volume of Internet traffic generated by end users worldwide will nearly double annually over the next five years, increasing from 180 petabits per day in 2002 to 5,175 petabits per day by the end of 2007. To put these figures into perspective, the...

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• American memory updates Century of Lawmaking collection. (And Furthermore).(history of Congress web site updated)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-04-01

  Just under five years ago the Library of Congress's American Memory program, in cooperation with the Law Library of Congress, introduced a seven-volume set of documents covering the First Congress. Thus was planted a seed of historic U.S. Congressional documents in the collection A Century of...

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