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Press Releases

2008

March 31, 2008
Section 108 Study Group Issues Report on Libraries' Use of Copyrighted Digital Materials.

March 3, 2008
Digital Preservation Program Launches Newsletter

January 7, 2008
Digital Preservation Program Adds New Partners To Preserve State Government Digital Information

2007

November 13, 2007
Martha Anderson Named Director of Program Management for Digital Preservation Program

August 3, 2007
Digital Preservation Program Makes Awards to Preserve American Creative Works

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2006

July 21, 2006
Library Partnership Supports Preservation of Foreign News Broadcasts

July 21, 2006
Digital Preservation Program Seeks Private Sector Partnerships

June 7, 2006
Library of Congress Announces Digital Preservation Award to Stanford University

May 25, 2006
Library Launches Web Site Devoted to Effort to Capture Web Sites for Preservation

May 24, 2006
Mary Rasenberger Named Director of Program Management for National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

April 19, 2006
Library of Congress, British Library to Support Common Archiving Standard for Electronic Journals

April 19, 2006
Library Holds Strategy Session on "Preserving Creative America"

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2005

October 5, 2005
Library of Congress Announces Award of $3 Million to Portico, a Nonprofit Electronic Archiving Service

May 13, 2005
Group Convenes to Discuss Exceptions to Copyright Law for Libraries and Archives

May 4, 2005
Library of Congress and National Science Foundation Announce Research Awards of $3 Million To Advance Digital Preservation

March 10, 2005
NDIIPP Holds First Partnership Meeting

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2004

September 30, 2004
NDIIPP Makes Awards of $14 Million to 8 Institutions

June 16, 2004
Digital Preservation Program Launches Research Grants Initiative

February 26, 2004
Digital Preservation Project Testing Transfer of Digital Archive

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2003

August 12, 2003
Digital Preservation Program Calls for Applications for Funding

February 14, 2003
Librarian of Congress Announces Next Phase of Digital Preservation Program

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2002

February 11, 2002
Library of Congress Convenes Sessions for Input on National Digital Collection, Access and Preservation Project

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2001

October 11, 2001
Library of Congress, Internet Archive, webarchivist.org and the Pew Internet & American Life Project Announce Sept. 11 Web Archive

March 15, 2001
Sen. Ted Stevens to Speak at FLICC Forum on Preserving the National Federal Heritage in the Digital Era

January 12, 2001
Library to Lead National Effort to Develop Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

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2000

July 26, 2000
"LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress" Issued by the National Research Council

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