The presidential library commemorating the life of US President John F Kennedy is digitizing every scrap of paper, video, audio and artofact it possesses, according to BBC News.
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"We are scanning every single piece of paper, movie and audio tape we have in our possession," Tom Putnam, JFK library director told BBC News.
"Unlike other libraries there is no archivist making a decision about what they think you would like to see," he said. "We are showing everything we have."
To date more than 200,000 pages have been digitised along with 1,500 photos, 72 reels of film and 300 reels of audio tape containing 1,245 individual recordings of telephone conversations, speeches and meetings.
"That is a very small fraction of the millions of papers we have here," said Mr Putnam.
The library's total archive encompasses 48 million pages, 7,000 hours of audio recordings, 16,000 museum artefacts and 400,000 photographs.
Also, AbeBooks highlights collectible books on Kennedy, here.
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