National Digital Library Program Releases Five Online Collections.

This article reports that the U.S. Library of Congress' National Digital Library (NDL) Program has announced the availability of five new collections from its World Wide Web home page. The new offerings bring to more than a dozen the number of collections that the Library makes freely available over the Internet. The collections include Mathew Brady Civil War photographs, sound recordings from the Nation's Forum, and early motion pictures. The NDL Program also offers access to the Library's card catalog, records from the U.S. Copyright Office, and links to other Internet sites. Text and images from nearly a dozen of the Library's major exhibitions are also available.