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The Library of Congress will announce today a $3 million gift from Google to help the library begin building a World Digital Library, a project that aims to digitize and place on the Web significant primary materials from national libraries and other institutions worldwide. James H.Billington, the librarian of Congress, said the World Digital Library would be modeled after the library's American Memory Project, started in 1994, which has been digitizing and placing on the Web millions of items, including manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, the Gettysburg Address and Civil War photographs. BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 11/22/2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/technology/22google.html
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