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Subject:        National Archives to Include Earth Imagery
Date:   Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:49:46 -0500
From:   John Lawton <[log in to unmask]>
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For those of you who may not have seen this yet:

National Treasure Expands: National Archives to Include Earth Imagery
Released: 6/13/2008 9:43:00 AM

...Professor Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, and Dr.
Mark Myers, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), today
signed an agreement creating a cooperative framework for how the two
Federal agencies will together ensure the preservation and access of
the massive earth imagery and geospatial data resources currently
archived by the USGS at its Earth Resources Observation and Science
(EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota....

Full news release at:
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1960&from=rss_home .

John Lawton
Assistant Map Librarian
John R. Borchert Map Library
University of Minnesota
S-76 Wilson Library
309 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 624-5757 | Fax: (612) 626-9353
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