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February 24, 2006

National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project to Digitize and Offer Historic Films Online

NARA press release: "Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced the launch of a pilot program to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online. This non-exclusive agreement will enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video as well as the National Archives website." Be Spacific 2/24/06

Posted by P. Kaufman at February 24, 2006 4:25 PM