December 9, 2006

The United States Library of Congress has selected our campaign website in 2006 for historical preservation.  They have "captured" our website information, photos, views, blog, etc. during the last week of the campaign and it will be preserved for posterity.  We are very proud that the Library selected us as one of the websites to protect and preserve.

We hope to have more information on this effort in the coming weeks.  Congratulations to Webpye, Inc., who provided us the service, and to all of our volunteers and supporters who provided the financial and physical support in our senatorial campaign efforts.

Brian

Following are excepts from the Library of Congresss' letter to us:

"To Whom It May Concern:

The United States Library of Congress preserves the Nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites.  The United States Library of Congress has selected your Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Election 2006.

The following URL has been selected:

www.votebrianmoore.com

The Library of Congress or its agent will engage in the collection of content from your Web site at regular intervals. The Library will make this collection available to researchers onsite at Library facilities. The Library also wishes to make the collection available to offsite researchers by hosting the collection on the Library's public access Web site.  The Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving Web materials about the Election 2006 and future elections, and permitting researchers from across the world to access them.


...... Your site has been identified as a Web site of interest related to Election 2006. 

............Our Election Web archives are important because they contribute to the historical record of our national elections, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the Web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper. The Library has developed three previous Election Web Archives, in 2000, 2002 and 2004. These Election Archives are available along with our other Web Archive collections through the Library's Web site (http://www.loc.gov/webcapture).   For more information about these and other Web Archive collections please visit our Web site."