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September 21, 2016 LOC News Release
Afghan Officials Receive Digitized Cultural Treasures
Library of Congress, Carnegie Corporation provide Cultural, Historical Materials
The Library of Congress has completed a three-year project, financed by Carnegie Corporation of New York, to digitize holdings of the Library of Congress relating to the culture and history of Afghanistan, for use by that nation’s cultural and educational institutions.
The officials accepted the gift (hard drives containing more than 163,000 pages of documents) for 10 Afghan institutions that will receive complete collection sets: the National Library of Afghanistan, the National Archive of Afghanistan, American University of Afghanistan, Badakhshan University, Balkh University, Bamiyan University, Herat University, Kabul University, Kandahar University and Nangarhar University.
In 2012, Carnegie Corporation of New York provided a grant to the Library of Congress to digitize its important collections relating to Afghanistan—collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s. The grant was announced at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in January 2013.
In addition to making this content available on the Internet through its online World Digital Library, the Library of Congress pledged to give high-resolution copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records and explanatory documentation) to cultural and educational institutions in Afghanistan for use in their own digital libraries and online repositories. The collection includes books, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, and newspapers and periodicals from and about Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, and Persian, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages.
Afghan Officials Receive Digitized Cultural Treasures
Library of Congress, Carnegie Corporation provide Cultural, Historical Materials
The Library of Congress has completed a three-year project, financed by Carnegie Corporation of New York, to digitize holdings of the Library of Congress relating to the culture and history of Afghanistan, for use by that nation’s cultural and educational institutions.
The officials accepted the gift (hard drives containing more than 163,000 pages of documents) for 10 Afghan institutions that will receive complete collection sets: the National Library of Afghanistan, the National Archive of Afghanistan, American University of Afghanistan, Badakhshan University, Balkh University, Bamiyan University, Herat University, Kabul University, Kandahar University and Nangarhar University.
In 2012, Carnegie Corporation of New York provided a grant to the Library of Congress to digitize its important collections relating to Afghanistan—collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s. The grant was announced at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in January 2013.
In addition to making this content available on the Internet through its online World Digital Library, the Library of Congress pledged to give high-resolution copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records and explanatory documentation) to cultural and educational institutions in Afghanistan for use in their own digital libraries and online repositories. The collection includes books, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, and newspapers and periodicals from and about Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, and Persian, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages.
