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American Memory library is open 24-7

Are you working late again on an important school history report and you need to have that report completed soon?

Does the first impulse you have include going online to "Google" or "Yahoo" for the information you are trying to find?

As you know the Internet is a large place, with many sources of information and not everything out there on the Net is accurate or trustworthy.

So, besides your local town or school library, where else can we go for information that is reliable and online?

One alternative I would like to talk about is the Library of Congress' web site.

The Library of Congress web site has an easy URL to remember, it is: http://www.loc.gov.

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal educational institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It began in 1800 inside the "new" US Capitol building in Washington DC. Today, it is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and manuscripts in its collections.

The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people. Its purpose is also to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

"The National Digital Library Program" is the Library of Congress' program to make available digitized versions of its American collections. These collections are freely accessible on their web site.

This online site includes millions of records from the Library of Congress itself, including its entire card catalog; The "American Memory," located at: http://memory.loc.gov. There is also a direct link on the Library of Congress' web site.

This web site provides free and open access via the Internet to historical text, film and sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other mediums that document the "American experience." It is a digitally stored record of American history and ingenuity. These collections from the Library of Congress and other institutions chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that shaped America.

The American Memory is available for all of us.

This is a resource not only for our children's education in school, but for us adults as we travel along our own lifelong learning quest.

Once I realized the endless amount of historical information that I could view, I found it hard to stop I spent hours reading the text and viewing the historical film and images.

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