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Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online

Posted by timothy on from the how-many-libraries-of-congress-is-that-anyhow dept.

Mark_Uplanguage writes "The idea to scan in all materials available at the U.S. Library of Congress was presented at the Web 2.0 conference this week (as just one of many ideas presented). The proposed cost of $260 million would create a huge benefit to society (well, at least to those who can read English)."

2 of 394 comments (clear)

  1. Can't do that. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    This would violate the publishers' god-given right to milk their "creations" until the heat-death of the Universe.

  2. Ametrica! by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, Slashdot can establish that for official purposes:

    1 Library of Congress = $260M

    And the 2004 US Federal budget can be spec'd at 0.000243754522 LoC:s (Libraries of Congress per second).

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