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The Missouri's Civil War website has been selected for inclusion in the archives of the Library of Congress. It will be included in a collection of other internet materials containing information on the American Civil War Sesquicentennial, that’s the 150th anniversary of the War. The Library of Congress preserves the Nation’s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library’s traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites.
The web archives of the Library of Congress are important because they contribute to the historical record of our Nation, capturing information that could otherwise be lost in time. With the growing role of the web as an influential medium of information and communication, records and information about historic events could be considered incomplete without the materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper such as websites.
The Library of Congress is interested in gathering and conserving the information contained on the Web because an ever-increasing amount of the world’s cultural and intellectual output is created in purely digital formats and does not exist in any tangible form. Creating an archive of websites supports the goals of the Library’s Digital Strategic Plan, announced in March 2003, which focuses on the collection and management of digital content for preservation.
The Missouri’s Civil War website was one of Insite Advice’s first websites and it continues to be relevant even in today’s vastly digital environment. The website provides a great deal of information on the history of the Civil War and really brought the rich history of the War in Missouri to the masses. This website has won national awards from the US Travel Industry Association and seen continuous praise from Civil War aficionados. Before the site was launched, there was no one place to learn about the seemingly unknown role of Missouri in the Civil War. Now it seems that the history of the state is well known and common knowledge.
Us here at Insite Advice are extremely excited to be involved with something as big and important as the Library of Congress. The fact that one of our websites was selected as an important historical resource for such an influential part of the information in our Nation is just purely amazing. We are excited for the people at the Missouri Civil War Heritage Foundation and look forward to seeing the records of our Nation’s and State’s history permanently recorded and preserved in the Library of Congress.
Alex Wolk started Insite Advice in 2002 with only one employee; himself. Since then, the company has grown in both employees and reputation. Insite Advice now serves organizations and businesses in the St. Louis area and across North America.
