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February 09, 2007: 2 Million Dollar Grant to Digitize Books
"Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Library of Congress a $2 million grant for a program to digitize thousands of public-domain works, with a major focus on at-risk "brittle books" and U.S. history volumes."
