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The Library of Congress Manuscripts Division has two containers of Vladimir Nabokov’s papers under seal. Tomorrow, June 23, 2009, the restrictions set by his son are scheduled to expire, meaning that this set of papers will be completely available to the public. To see the papers, you must go to the Library’s Manuscript Reading Room. (via Books Are People, Too)

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The Library of Congress Manuscripts Division has two containers of Vladimir Nabokov’s papers under seal. Tomorrow, June 23, 2009, the restrictions set by his son are scheduled to expire, meaning that this set of papers will be completely available to the public. To see the papers, you must go to the Library’s Manuscript Reading Room. (via Books Are People, Too)
Putting an entire scholarly collection based on a single individual online is becoming a more common endeavor…
Archivist Robert S. Cox of UMass Amherst discussing the comprehensive digitization of W.E.B. Du Bois’ papers.  The article does a good job of describing this process to the public.