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Wait! Don’t Digitize and Discard! A White Paper on ALA COL Discussion Issue #1a
June 21, 2013 / 6 Comments on Wait! Don’t Digitize and Discard! A White Paper on ALA COL Discussion Issue #1a
[UPDATE 6/27: COL's final report is now available online. We've added a link to it below along with the draft report] We here at FGI are all for greater access to government information and have long supported and worked toward a fully digital FDLP. When discussing the future of the FDLP, we believe it is important to create policy based on thorough fact-based analysis, to learn from FDLP history and not repeat mistakes which in the past led to benign neglect of documents collections -- many of which were borne out of trying to handle government documents collections on the cheap. For example, lack of adequate cataloging, one of our biggest current problems today, is a direct result of libraries not investing sufficiently in describing FDLP collections. Continue reading →
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