The LoC: A Leader and a Work in Progress (03 May 2004)
The original digital endeavor by the LoC resulted in the American Memory Collection, a multimedia archive containing approximately eight million digitized items such as the first movies ever produced. The freely accessible Collection has primarily been used for educational purposes. Initially, items in the Collection were often selected because they were in the public domain, which circumvented copyright issues.
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