Copyright, Fair Use, and Responsible Use of American Memory Collections . This discussion was prepared for the American Memory Learning Page and is aimed primarily at teachers. Rights and Restrictions . This description of Library of Congress practice was prepared in conjunction with the Library of Congress sponsorship of Phase II of the Digital Library Initiative of the National Science Foundation . Since the formation of the Digital Library Federation, and the merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library resources into CLIR, many of the reports have related to digitization.
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The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has offered workshops relating to the digitization of manuscripts and rare books as part of its Rare Book School. Examples of materials digitized are available online. The 1995 workshop featured 19th century African-American Resources . The 1996 workshop dealt with Early American manuscripts and typescripts . At the 1997 workshop, participants prepared digital facsimiles of letters from the Civil War era .