Editing American Memory (section)

==History==
The pilot for the American Memory project was a digitization program which started in 1990. Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on [[Laserdisc]] and [[CD-ROM]]. When the [[World Wide Web]] accelerated in 1993, the pilot program was refocused to deliver digitized materials by way of the internet.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eiBbO7-ITe4C&pg=PA82 |pages=82–83 |title=Crash Course in Library Gift Programs: The Reluctant Curator's Guide to Caring for Archives, Books, and Artifacts in a Library Setting |first=Elizabeth Ann |last=Roberts |publisher=Greenwood |year=2007 |isbn=978-0313094521 |series=Crash Course}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9FmRPoqwB8C&pg=PA56 |page=56 |title=Influence of Funding on Advances in Librarianship |editor=Danuta A. Nitecki, Eileen G. Abels |first=Jeffrey |last=Pomerantz |chapter=Development and Impact of Digital Library Funding in the U.S. |publisher=Emerald Group |year=2009 |isbn=978-1848553729 |series=[[Advances in Librarianship]] |volume=31}}</ref>