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US National Archivist promises access improvements Allen Weinstein, Progress toward a Goal of Greater Access, Prologue, Summer 2007. Weinstein is the US National Archivist. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt:
PS: For more on the third bullet point, see my blog post from January 19, 2007. The US National Archives made a non-exclusive deal with Footnote, Inc., allowing Footnote to digitize some of the archive's public-domain documents and sell them online. Footnote will charge $100/year or $1.99/page for access to these public documents until 2012, when access will be free. |