Saturday, 10th June 2006

Plans to Digitize Entire Contents of John F. Kennedy Library Announced

Presidential Libraries: Plans to Digitize Entire Contents of John F. Kennedy Library Announced
"Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia Point, Senator Edward M. Kennedy today announced a major and unprecedented effort by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to build a new library -- a digital one consisting of the entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of President John F. Kennedy, eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's web site -- www.jfklibrary.org.....The Kennedy Presidential Library?s research facilities are among the busiest of presidential libraries. Its archives currently include more than 8.4 million pages of the personal, congressional and presidential papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and more than 40 million pages of over 300 other individuals who were associated with the Kennedy Administration or mid-20th Century American history. In addition, the archives hold more than 400,000 still photographs; 11,000 hours of audio recordings; 8.5 million feet of motion picture film; and 1,200 hours of video recordings. The project to digitize the collection is expected to take more than 10 years and will begin with the official papers of President Kennedy.

The projects' objectives are five-fold:
* The long-term preservation of administration records, photographs, documents, video and audio;
* Provide online accessibility to a worldwide audience;
* Enhance one's ability to search the collection using metadata;
* Protecting historical assets through remote replication (keeping a copy in another location in case of disaster); and
* Minimizing wear and tear on irreplaceable physical assets"

+ See Also: JFK Library Reference Desk (Speech Transcripts, Bios, Some Recordings, More)
+ See Also: Audiovisual Holdings of the JFK Library
+ See Also: JFK Library White House Diary Exhibit
+ See Also: JFK Timeline

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