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One of the greatest features of the Internet is that people, regardless of their location, can have instant access to digitized information anywhere in the world. A single organization can load information into a computer and keep it current. That organization can then make its computer files available to other users.
Numerous libraries have created digital files of some of their holdings. Until recently a person could only do serious research at the Library of Congress by going there in person. The same was true for the University of Georgia Library. Now both have stored much of their historical material on computers—accessible to researchers from anywhere in the world. Although access to some of the material is restricted to faculty, employees, students, etc., much is available to the general public at no charge!
The Digital Library of Georgia is described as "a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and other materials." http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/
Some art museums offer virtual tours through which you can read about individual works of art and see excellent pictures of them. This means that from Murray County, Georgia, computer users can visit our National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, (http://www.nga.gov) or the J. Paul Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/museum/) in Los Angeles. Heck, why not tour the louvre in Paris (http://www.louvre.fr/) or the Hermitage (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org) in St. Petersburg ?!?
To see names of major newspapers published in a country, go to http://www.world-newspapers.com then click on any country name. For historical research purposes some of the oldest newspapers, especially in the U.K. have more than 200 years of back issues online and searchable from anywhere. Searches usually cost nothing. To buy a copy of one news story usually costs less than $10, payable by credit card. However, buying copies of many articles at the same time can reduce the price to perhaps $1 per article. Read their costs before you decide to buy. Some of the papers, list ARCHIVES as one of their website sections. If you can't find what you're looking for, go to the bottom of their website's home page and hit the "Contact us" option to email them.
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