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U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-well-they-ought dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Future Historians by TrentL · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.