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For the first time, Martin Luther King’s entire FBI file is now online – all 16,659 pages, posted by The Memory Hole. http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/09/fbi_mlk_file/ ...

The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to schools…. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/16/smithsonian.online.ap/index.html ...

In early 2007, Julia T. Morton, wife of prominent North Carolinian, entrepreneur, tourism booster, conservationist, environmental activist, sports fan, and prolific image-maker Hugh MacRae Morton, donated his extensive photographic archive—estimated at half a million transparencies, photographs, and negatives, and 60,000 ...

From The Associated Press, Published: July 31, 2008 BERLIN: A major archive in Germany has purchased 15 custom-made scanners to digitize and catalog a huge collection of virtually untapped Holocaust records. The archive at the International Tracing Service in Bad ...

UWM Libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents TIBET – From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library. This digital collection presents a selection of historical maps and photographs of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society ...

First produced in 1777 in London’s Drury Lane Theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The School for Scandal” is a rollicking British social farce filled with manners, mischief and marital mayhem. It is the story of Sir Oliver Surface and his two ...

Binghamton University Libraries has purchased CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to help us provide access to materials in our Special Collections. The first major project using this software is the Edwin A. Link, Jr., Digital Archives, located at http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/linkhome.html. The ...

In the early 1960s Johnny Hart (1931-2007), who had been born in Endicott, NY, and had become successful among cartoonists for previously creating B.C., began collaborating with a friend who had not been published before, Brant Parker. Having already made ...

Broward County Libraries Division’s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book: The Dianne and Michael Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is pleased to announce the opening of: “So This Is Florida: An Exhibition of Decorative Book ...

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that ...