RESOUR> [DIG_REF] Library of Congress Global Gateways: The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands

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From: "Laura Gottesman" <lgot@xxxxxxx>
To: <DIG_REF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:52:31 -0500
Subject: [DIG_REF] Library of Congress Global Gateways: The Atlantic World: 
America and the Netherlands
 
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The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of the
online collection The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands,
available at the Library's Global Gateway Web site:
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/awkbhome.html.

Developed by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the National
Library of the Netherlands, this is the first stage of an ongoing
project, The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands, being produced
under a cooperative agreement signed by the two institutions earlier
this year. The companion site of the National Library of the
Netherlands, The Memory of the Netherlands, is located at:
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl.

The Atlantic World is available in both English and Dutch, and is
intended for use in schools and libraries and by the general public in
both countries and around the world. It includes more than 70 items
totaling some 11,737 images from the collections of the Library of
Congress, the National Library of the Netherlands, and six other Dutch
institutions that are cooperating with the National Library on the
project: the Netherlands National Archives, the Municipal Archives of
Amsterdam, the Plantage Library of the University of Amsterdam, and the
National Maritime Museum. Among the items digitized for the project are
a letter describing the purchase of Manhattan from the Native Americans
in 1626, an etching of the Mohawk Sychnecta, early land grants and
patents from Dutch settlers, seventeenth- century maps, and an early
description of the Dutch colony on the eve of its transfer to the
British.

The Atlantic World is part of the Library of Congress's Global
Gateway initiative to create collaborative digital libraries with
leading libraries around the world:
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html. Other Global
Gateway projects are underway or planned with libraries in Russia,
Brazil, Spain, Japan, France, and Egypt.

Please submit all inquiries via the Global Gateway contact form at:
http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-international.html.

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