How Digital Technologies Have Changed the Library of Congress: Inside and Outside
By Laura E. Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress
From the paper:

The digital age has enabled the Library to exploit the benefits of technology for the benefit of our constituents. We now reach many more millions of users online than ever enter our doors on Capitol Hill. Approximately 2 million visitors are greeted by the Library each year; more than 50 times that number visit our Web site during the same period. We have established new constituencies, such as teachers and their students, and we are making an important difference in the education of this nation’s future leaders through the more than 11 million primary source materials we offer online.

These are the changes that are obvious to those outside the institution. But there are other, I would argue, no less important changes that digital technologies have brought to the internal operations of this 207-year-old institution.

This paper was delivered at the National Science Foundation/Joint Information Systems Committee Repositories Workshop in Phoenix.

Source: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress

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