LC Celebrates Inauguration Online

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

Posted on several lists.  Please forgive duplication.

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Released  January 13, 1996


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CELEBRATES INAUGURATION ONLINE

National Digital Library joins Washington cultural
institutions to commemorate presidential inauguration on
the World Wide Web.

Today, The Library of Congress debuted an online feature
presentation celebrating the presidential inauguration.
The presentation, Inaugurations in American Memory,
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/inaug/inaug.html)
highlights photographs, films, and oral histories of past
presidential inaugurations as found in the over 500,000
historical primary sources available from the Library of
Congress over the World Wide Web (http://www.loc.gov/).
Feature presentations are a regularly updated offering on
the Learning Page, 
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html), a
Library of Congress World Wide Web area specially
designed for teachers, students, and lifelong learners.

Inaugurations in American Memory is part of a larger body
of material, including presidential papers, images of 
presidents and first ladies, and a presentation on 
Elections, compiled by the Library as part of a cooperative
World Wide Web site created by Washington cultural 
institutions. The cooperative Web site, Celebrating Democracy,
(http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html), was 
jointly developed by The Smithsonian Institution, The National
Archives, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  Celebrating Democracy
features online presentations of presidential memorabilia, 
photographs and documents from past inaugurations and inaugural
balls, and up-to-the-minute photographs of the 1997 inaugural
festivities.  The goal of the Web site is to encourage teachers,
students, and lifelong learners to connect current events with
American history by tapping into the vast resources now 
available online from the Library of Congress and other
Washington cultural institutions.


CONTACTS:	Guy Lamolinara	 (202)707-9217	 
                Martha Dexter    (202)707-0805
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   Elizabeth L. Brown, M.L.S.                            
   National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/ES(1320)   
   Library of Congress, Washington, DC  20540-1320       
   ebro at loc.gov                telephone: 202/707-2235   
                                                         
   Library of Congress Learning Page:                    
   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/                  
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