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The Library of Congress Provides an Update on Its Digital Content Initiatives
A Library of Congress’ blog, The Signal, featured a guest post from Joe Puccio, collection development officer in the Collection Development Office. Puccio writes, “In January 2017, the Library of Congress adopted a set of strategic steps related to its acquisition of digital content. ... This five-year plan … is described in Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress. … With the program implementation well into its third year, … [t]he remaining work is either awaiting start-up, is already in process or is being adjusted to meet the ever changing landscape of digital collecting.”He lists the program’s accomplishments, including the following: - Registration of newspaper e-prints was established by the Copyright Office, and system development was completed to make the content available onsite to the Library’s users.
- A first-ever formal assessment of the Library’s purchased and leased electronic resources collection was conducted.
- The Library developed a model electronic resources license agreement, which it has used with several vendors.
- Web archiving was piloted as a method to acquire state government documents that were formerly received by the Library in print.
- Multiple pilots to acquire open access monographs were successfully completed. …
For more information, read the blog post.
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