Digitizing a Comprehensive Set of U.S. Gov Docs: U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Newest Member of Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) - Google Partnership
The project will digitize many of the government documents which were distributed to CIC libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)...The process will largely rely upon a sheet-fed scanning process which produces higher resolution images.
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The CIC-Google Government Document Project’s objective is to digitize a copy of all U.S. Federal documents held by CIC libraries and to develop a collective strategy for the retention and preservation of an adequate number of print copies to satisfy user needs...
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+ University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania State University have already sent material to Google to be digitized. Worth noting that Google will be using different technology than what the use for books since docs will be sheet fed.
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