Digitization Projects
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii's Law Library Microform Consortium Digitizes Content
From the article, For 27 years the Kaneohe-based nonprofit Law Library Microform Consortium has transferred volumes of law books onto microfiche. Some 91,000 volumes, in fact. In partnership with the University of Hawaii, Wayne State University Law School and the University of Michigan, it is now putting the volumes online. LLMC-Digital's goal of 100 million online pages will make it the biggest digital law library, according to Executive Director Jerry Dupont. It will continue to offer microfiche copies...So far just over two-thirds of American law schools have signed up for the new online library, as have 15 large mainland law firms...The beta-test site is open for free at www.llmc.com but after Sept. 1 the subscriber-only site will replace it..."Librarians like the fact that with the technology we're adapting, the first thing they get is the actual picture of the original book." Most users know exactly what it is they are looking for, although the data will be searchable, Dupont said.Thanks to S.C. for the news tip.
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