<div dir="ltr">Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The letters, journals, documents and drawings tell the story not only of the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, but also the history of our nation.<div><br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/vast-digitizing-project-will-put-harvards-colonial-archives-online/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/vast-digitizing-project-will-put-harvards-colonial-archives-online/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">​Also see: <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digitisation">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digitisation</a></font></b>​</div><br></div></div>