[Sca-librarians] Fwd: Old newspapers to go online

[Scott Briggs]

To those of you who hadn't already read about this. It looks like an 
interesting bit of information.

>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government promises anyone with a computer will have
>access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice
>of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries,
>newspaper offices or the nation's capital.
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/11/17/oldnewspapers.ap/index.html
>


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Scott Briggs
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