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mfcorey1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 04:53 AM
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Kennedy Library documents to make their debut on Internet
By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
The library for the president who conceived the New Frontier is entering a new frontier of its own: It is the first presidential library to make all of its documents available online.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is scheduled to make the announcement today, days before the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration.

"Our hope is to reach a new generation of people worldwide," JFK Library Director Tom Putnam says. "For a lot of young people, if something isn't on the Internet, it doesn't exist. This democratizes our holdings. You don't have to come here or (rely on) others — be it journalists or biographers — for their

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-01-13-jfkarchives13_ST_N.htm
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