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Library of Congress, History join to showcase collections
May 5, 2008
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by GV staff
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The Library of Congress and History have joined forces to create a multimedia partnership to showcase the library’s collections to the vast audience of the History brands including the History Channel, history.com, and other television properties. The partnership will also bring historical content to more than 200,000 teachers across the country that use the channel’s branded educational materials in their classrooms.
The non-exclusive partnership will include co-branded content on history.com, original specials, and short and long-form historical documentary programming on the History Channel. History also produced a short film and new content for the new Library of Congress Experience, which opened publicly April 12 in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and online at myloc.gov.
The goal of the partnership is to bring the collections of the Library of Congress to broader audiences on the platform of their choice -- whether that is mobile, broadband, or on History HD.
"We’re pleased to join forces with History in this effort that will help better fulfill our mission of making knowledge more accessible and useful to the Congress and the public. With more than 138 million items in our collections, there are millions of stories waiting to be told. We’re delighted that History will help us tell some of them," said James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress.
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge. Founded in 1800, the Library seeks to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its collections, which bring to bear the world’s knowledge in almost all of the world’s languages and America’s private-sector intellectual and cultural creativity in almost all formats.
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