SECTION J, Attachment 2: EXAMPLES/LIST OF LC-PROPOSED MATERIALS FOR DIGITIZATION

Collection: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Description: Urban area fire insurance maps from the 19th and early 20th century. Format: Maps Approximate number of items: 25,000 Notes: Pre-1923; offsite digitization would be considered. Collection: Landownership Atlases Description: 19th century landownership maps covering rural areas in a variety of states. Format: Maps/Atlases Approximate number of items: 1800 atlases. Volumes can range from 50 to 100 pages; estimate 90,000 to 180,000 scans total. Notes: Pages encapsulated in mylar and post bound. Offsite digitization would be considered. Collection: Sigmund Freud papers Description: Personal papers of Sigmund Freud, including those to which access was previously restricted Format: Manuscript Approximate number of items: 48,600 items. 138 containers plus 20 oversize and 3 vault containers. 23 microfilm reels. 70 linear feet. Notes: Onsite only Collection: George S. Patton diaries Description: Handwritten diaries from August 1942 March 1945. Format: bound diary and loose text pages Approximate number of items: 1100 pages Notes: Onsite only Collection: Panama Canal History in Newspapers, 1880-1920 Description: Various newspapers from the era Format: Newspaper Approximate number of items: 17,976 pages/3,228 issues Notes: Collection: Yiddish American plays Description: A copyright deposit collection of 1200 Yiddish American play scripts Format: Unpublished manuscripts Approximate number of items: 1200 play scripts Notes: 500 of the play scripts are prior to 1923; rights clearances would be required for the rest. Finding aid available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/marwick/marwickbibliography.pdf Collection: Official Register of the United States (1816-1954) Description: A compiled listing that shows Federal employees (officers and agents) together with the employees office, the state or territory from which each person was appointed, the state or country in

which the employee was born, and the compensation, and pay for each year from 1816 to 1954. Early years list the names, force, and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States and when and where they were built. Of particular note, the Official Register includes a list of employees of the Department of State diplomatic corps, postmasters of post offices throughout the United States, and listings of military personnel. The Official Register traces the organizational history of the United States Government and is of research interest to historians and genealogists alike. Format: Bound volumes Approximate number of items: 146 Notes: Collection: Federal Theatre Project Collection Description: Records of the FTP, an agency of the WPA from 1935 to 1939, comprising production records directly related to productions and planned productions, including production bulletins, playbills, programs, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, correspondence, etc. Format: Various formats Approximate number of items: Approximately 8800 items, comprising almost 4,000 scenic and costume designs; 300 posters; 2,500 photographs; almost 2,000 production notebooks. Notes: Collection: Federal Advisory Committee Collection, Selected Reports, 1972-1996 Description: The Federal Advisory Committee Collection consists of materials legally deposited with LC under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972. The material consists of charters, annual reports, and background papers submitted by various committees, boards, commissions, councils, and similar groups established to advise offices and agencies in the Executive Branch, e.g the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, the Space Science Advisory Committee, the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the 9/11 Commission. Format: Paper documents Approximate number of items: 200,000 Notes: Collection: Office of Scientific Research and Development Collection Description: OSRD materials represent original research done by the Allies during the World War II era. Includes technical reports, drawings, memos and other documents either originally in the open literature or since declassified. Format: Mixed paper and card catalog Approximate number of items: 139 bound volumes; 200,000 index cards; 35,000 40,000 hardcopy reports ranging from a few pages to hundreds of pages Notes: Collection: American folklife sound recording disc sleeves Description: From the 1930s to the 1950s, instantaneous acetate audio discs were the medium of choice for the AFC archive and field workers tended to document their work on the disc sleeves rather than in field notebooks or journals. The archive derived, then, its indexes and card catalog (now an online presentation) from the disc sleeves. Some of the information contained on the sleeves,

however, has never been transferred, making the 5,500 sleeves in this collection an invaluable research tool. Format: recording disc sleeves Approximate number of items: 5,500 sleeves, 7,000 images (some information on verso) Notes: Collection: US Supreme Court Records and Briefs Description: US Supreme Court Records and Briefs Format: Bound volumes Approximate number of items: 28,000 30,000 volumes of 600 1200 pages per volume Notes: Collection: Card catalogs Description: The Library has a variety of card catalogs representing, in most cases, Library of Congress holdings, many of which do not have online catalog record counterparts. Examples include the MBRS nitrate file cards (13,000 cards); pre-1958 Chinese Monographs (31,900 cards); Prints and Photographs Division card catalogs for posters, fine prints, and pre-1990 copy negatives (200,000 cards); Cyrillic Union Catalog (730,000) Format: primarily 3 x 5 cards, occasionally 4 x 6. One instance of microprint (Cyrillic Union Catalog) Approximate number of items: Varies Notes: