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National library gets digital - The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 20, 2012 FOR 135 YEARS, saving paper has been its focus. But with so much of the world’s written content and images increasingly in digital form, the National Library of Ireland has embarked on a major project to digitise its collections and give equal weight to archiving new material that comes in bits and bytes. An ambitious four programmes of work were launched during the past year, approaching the digitisation task from a range of directions. One effort is directed at digitising the library’s catalogues, as under 60 per cent its printed catalogue of books and periodicals is available online. http://bit.ly/xbWw7J Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0120/1224310512980.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/xbWw7J+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]