Library of Congress Seeks Digital Preserves

By Robert Siegel

Published October 4, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

The U.S. Library of Congress recently made almost $15 million in grants to eight institutions to identify, collect and preserve significant digital material. The Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program seeks to preserve material that was "born digital." NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Laura Campbell of the Library of Congress.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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