Library of Congress Announces September 11 Documentary Project Presentation

The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center has announced a new presentation, The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project, available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/ . Instead of a media archive, this is an archive of the reactions of people in the months that followed September 11.

The online presentation includes about 170 audio and video interviews, 41 graphic materials, and 21 written narratives and poems. This is just part of what's available at the reading room (the reading room contains about 800 audio and video narratives, 421 graphic materials, and news clippings and artifacts.)

There is a gallery of featured drawings, and a simple and advanced search are available, but you can also browse the collection by title, subject, audio, photograph/drawing, video, and written narrative. The audio portions are in MP3 and RealAudio formats, while the video is in Real, Quicktime, and MPEG, with still shots at the top of the page. Media lists date, interviewee name, interviewer name, date of interview, and synopsis.

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