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U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications
CETS writes "The U.S. Government Printing Office is working with the library community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications. The objective is to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDLP. See specific article for more detail."
And, see a rise in prescription eyeglass sales... staring at a monitor to read everything can and does fuck up ones eyes.
In the Faroe Islands (tiny speck on world map between Iceland-Norway-Shetland) all newspapers and legal matters have been subject to digitization by law for some years now and work is steadily progressing.
There are historical documents dating hundreds upon hundreds of years back so it'll take some time before the project is concluded.
The idea is to make available to the public domain any publication released henceforth as well as any previously published publication.
The National Archives is building the "Electronic Record Archives" to solve this exact problem. The ERA is going to be much more sophisticated than this LOC thing mentioned in the article above.