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Maine Memory Network <http://www.mainememory.net>. Created and maintained by the Maine Historical Society. Reviewed July 30, Nov. 3–10, 2003.
A profusion of Web-based archives now provides students, scholars, and the general public access to entire or partial collections without having to leave home or office. Many historical societies, museums, and libraries have rushed to join this effort to digitize and make more accessible their records. The Maine Memory Network adds another important collection of primary sources to cyberspace, but, like so many of its predecessors, it does not provide users the tools with which to engage those rich resources more deeply.	1
Created by the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Memory Network exemplifies an important new trend among state institutions to collaborate by combining and sharing primary resources through new technology. The Web site includes items from dozens of organizations in Maine, which input documents directly into the database through their own Web browsers. Network staff assist contributors with technical training. The collaborative effort has helped smaller historical societies digitize and publicize their limited, but valuable, collections.	. . .

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