Today in 1994, the United States Library of Congress held the first meeting to plan the conversion of printed materials to a digital format in order to make them accessible through the internet and to preserve rare materials.
In 2022, the library reported 174 petabytes (174 million gigabytes) of digital storage in use. The digitize material on the Library’s websites—from books to audio recordings to film—totals over 5.3 petabytes. 8.7 million preservation actions were performed on items in the Library’s physical collections, with a further 2.4 million pages of materials prepared and shipped to vendors for preservation reformatting services.