Library of Congress on YouTube

The Library of Congress has begun to make its multimedia resources available via YouTube:

"We are starting with more than 70 videos, arranged in the following playlists: 2008 National Book Festival author presentations, the Books and Beyond author series, Journeys and Crossings (a series of curator discussions), “Westinghouse” industrial films from 1904, scholar discussions from the John W. Kluge Center, and the earliest movies made by Thomas Edison, including the first moving image ever made (curiously enough, a sneeze by a man named Fred Ott)."

To see what's available, go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress

National Security Archive

An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.

To see the range of documents available, go to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/index.html

BBC Archive

The BBC archive is now freely available to all. It contains themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs covering the past 70 years. The collections include: Witnessing the Holocaust, Cuba and the Cold War, Genesis of Doctor Who, Music from the Mersey. It is being updated and enhanced on a regular basis.