We are pleased to announce the establishment of the UK Higher Education
Digitisation Centre and to circulate the following Press Release.
PRESS RELEASE
The University of Hertfordshire has been awarded a L462,000 grant to set
up the UK Higher Education Digitisation Centre that will convert more
than one million pages of printed text a year into 'electronic libraries'
making printed materials much more widely accessible by the UK higher
education community.
The Digitisation Centre will bring together the skills and experience of
Cimtech Ltd, which is a University of Hertfordshire company, and
International Imaging Ltd, a highly successful company renowned for its
work in the fields of document conversion and image capture services.
The initial development of the Centre is funded under the Joint
Information Systems Committee's Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib),
which was set up following the recommendations of the Follett Report, the
1993 review of academic libraries in Britain.
The Centre will use state of the art computer scanning and digitisation
equipment and specialist consultancy staff to guarantee high quality
results tailored to job requirements.
Over the first two years the eLib support will enable the Digitisation
Centre to offer its core services to higher education organisations at
subsidised rates and to provide free advice and information on
digitisation to the higher education sector. Other services available on
a charged basis will include document preparation, the vital issue of
copyright clearance, indexing and the provision of storage and back-up
copies.
The new Centre will undertake a selected range of projects in the first
year becoming fully operational for all digitisation work in Autumn 1997.
Press Release issued by Brian Emsley, Press Officer, University of
Hertfordshire (direct line 01707 284022)
Di Martin
University Librarian
University of Hertfordshire
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