Word: monumenta
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service...