US's Library of Congress to store digital info from Mazvydas Library

The Library of Congress, one of the world's largest and oldest libraries, will store the digital content of the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania in its archives.

According to the Lithuanian library, the Library of Congress has been granted permission to regularly collect and archive information from Lithuania's National Library, published on its website, including the website's public third-party contents, for example, facebook, YouTube etc.

The Library of Congress will provide access to the collected contents under a special agreement signed with the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania.

The latter hopes the content archiving done by the Library of Congress will provide a much wider access to global researchers and contribute to the implementation of the Open Data policy.