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One year after Twitter donated its archives, the Library of Congress is still building the infrastructure to make the data accessible to researchers.
In 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter announced a historic and incongruous partnership: Together, they would archive and preserve every tweet ever posted, creating a massive store of short ...
The Library of Congress is turning to the internet for a new generation of shared culture.
In January, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will retire after a long career in public service. He's held a post that carries tremendous ...
In 2017 the Library of Congress announced it would no longer archive every single tweet, because of Twitter’s growth as a communication tool. Twitter supplies the Library of Congress with the texts of ...
The Library of Congress is busy archiving the Twitter canon, but there's no plan for public display.
The Library of Congress announced today that it will no longer add every public tweet to its archives, an ambitious project it launched seven years ago. It cited the much larger volume of tweets ...
Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has ...
The Library of Congress opened its newest collection — called The Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive — on Tuesday (Nov. 12).