Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the German Nazi concentrationand extermination camp. It is also International Holocaust Memorial Day, and I, like so many others whose family intertwines with this dark chapter of history, am thinking about family members that perished during the Holocaust. As fewer and fewer people who experienced …
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Preserving Cultural Heritage with Filecoin
On January 21st, the Filecoin Foundation announced a partnership with leading organizations like Smithsonian Institution, Flickr Foundation, Internet Archive, MIT Open Learning, and Starling Lab to safeguard over 500,000 culturally significant digital artifacts on the Filecoin network. From Alexander Graham Bell’s earliest sound recordings to Flickr Commons’ most viewed photographs, these datasets highlight the transformative …
New Photographs from Lee County Libraries Present a Rich Visual Source for Black History in Lee County, NC
Endor Street (Horner Boulevard) in Sanford We are excited to announce that new photographs from The Sanford Herald Photographic Print Collection at Lee County Libraries are now available on DigitalNC. In November 2023, The Sanford Herald (1930-present) donated thousands of images, spanning from the 1930s to the 2000s, to Lee County Libraries. This new back of material includes photographs from the 1930s to …