Plans for a "virtual library" of Theodore Roosevelt's papers have a boost from Washington.

Sen. Byron Dorgan says Dickinson State University and the Library of Congress have reached an agreement to digitize Roosevelt's papers.

That clears the way for a Theodore Roosevelt Library at Dickinson State, near the Badlands where the nation's 26th president ranched.

Dorgan says Roosevelt's papers from the years 1760 to 1993 are on 485 rolls of microfilm at the Library of Congress. Under the agreement, library officials will use $50,000 in federal money to make digital copies of the papers that can be studied in Dickinson.

- Associated Press