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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Kuny [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 26 March 1998 14:42
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> Subject: [REPORT] Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection
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> VIRTUALLY NEW - CREATING THE DIGITAL COLLECTION
>
> A Review of Digitisation Projects in Local Authority
> Libraries and Archives (in the UK)
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> A New Report ~~~ Details of Availability ~~~ Order Form ~~~
> Further Information
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> In the United Kingdom the Library and Information Commission has
> published its review of digitisation and digitisation projects
> in local authority libraries and archives as Virtually New -
> Creating the Digital Collection.
>
> Virtually New addresses a key issue in the Commission's 20/20 Vision
> statement and New Library: the People's Network to support
> the enabling
> of a digital library collection in which the UK's heritage of
> intellectual
> property will be available at the local, regional, national and global
> level. In addition, the national educational policy contexts of the
> National Grid for Learning informed the research.
>
> Virtually New provides:
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> * an overview of digitisation activity in UK public libraries and
> archives;
> * a full discussion of the issues;
> * a review of progress in other sectors;
> * a detailed Directory of Digitisation Projects in UK local authority
> libraries and archives;
> * a select annotated bibliography and URL list; and, a Focus Group
> report.
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> REPORT AVAILABILITY
>
> 1. PUBLISHED REPORT
> Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection : a review of
> digitisation projects in local authority libraries and archives.
> Final Report to the Library and Information Commission.
> Prepared by Consultants to the Review, Information North.
> Report by David Parry. Library and Information
> Commission. London. 1998. 129 pages. A4 Comb Binding.
> ISBN 1 902394 003.
> £15.45 (inc. UK post & packaging; international at cost).
>
> Available From:
> Information North, Bolbec Hall, Westgate Road,
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> 2. DOWNLOADABLE WORD.file Virtually New can be downloaded
> complete from:
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> http://ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation
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> 3. 4-PAGE SUMMARY available free from:
> The Library and Information Commission,
> 2 Sheraton Street, London WC1V 4BH.
> Tel: 0171 411 0059.
> Fax: 0171 411 0057.
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> FURTHER INFORMATION
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> Check out http://ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation
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> Or
>
> Contact:
> Michael Long
> Information North, Bolbec Hall, Westgate Road,
> Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE.
> Tel: 0191 232 0877.
> Fax: 0191 232 0804
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