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The K-12 Web Archiving Program: Preserving the Web from a Youthful Point of View

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

This article is being co-published on the Teaching With the Library of Congress blog and was written by Butch Lazorchak and Cheryl Lederle. If you believe the Web (and who doesn’t believe everything they read on the Web?), it boastfully celebrated its 25th birthday last year. Twenty-five years is long enough for the first “children …

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Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Kalev Hannes Leetaru, Senior Fellow, George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. Portions adapted from a post for the Knight Foundation. Imagine a world where language was no longer a barrier to information access, where anyone can access real-time information from anywhere in the world in …

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Mapping Words: Lessons Learned From a Decade of Exploring the Geography of Text

Posted by: Butch Lazorchak

The following is a guest post by Kalev Hannes Leetaru, Senior Fellow, George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. It is hard to imagine our world today without maps. Though not the first online mapping platform, the debut of Google Maps a decade ago profoundly reshaped the role of maps in everyday life, …