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JFK Presidential Library to Digitize Entire Collection

by Amar Toor on January 13, 2011 at 03:43 PM

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The library honoring John F. Kennedy is about to publish all of its documents online, just days before the 50th anniversary of the late President's inauguration.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation will formally announce the launch later today, making it the first presidential library to make its entire collection available on the Internet. Today's announcement caps a four-year, $10 million project to digitize the collection, which includes 200,000 documents, 1,500 photos, 300 reels of audio tape, 72 reels of film, and 1,245 recordings of meetings, telephone calls, and speeches.

"Our hope is to reach a new generation of people worldwide," Library Director Tom Putnam told USA Today. "For a lot of young people, if something isn't on the Internet, it doesn't exist. This democratizes our holdings. You don't have to come here or [rely on] others -- be it journalists or biographers -- for their interpretations."

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