Local documents provide a valuable record of regional information and local culture and development. Local documents can be classified according to information types and information content.

The first group includes books, relics and audio and electronic materials; the second historic articles, monuments, folk customs, cultural landscape, industries, literature, art, historical materials, and other areas. These documents enhance local awareness and serve as teaching materials on local topics.

Through digitization, these materials can be preserved and made widely available over the Internet. In additional to digitizing the NCL's local document collection (including local annals, local literature, and local government publications¡Xannouncements, statistics, and pamphlets), this subproject will be expanded to include the scanning of local documents in county and city cultural bureaus, literary societies, and local libraries. The result of this work will be a major database of great importance to research on local people, events, periods, places, and things.

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