Melissa Brachfeld writes: “Imagine the frustration of a scholar who, after traveling thousands of miles to the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, must wait hours to access a single cardboard box that may or may not contain the specific materials they might be seeking. The 43 National Archives and Records Administration facilities contain over 10 billion pages, most of which have not been digitized. It can feel like searching for a historical needle in a very large haystack. Researchers at the University of Maryland, with assistance from information experts from Japan, are working to offer digital solutions to this dilemma.”