FRONT PAGE NEWS
ISSUE 116, MARCH 2006


"Digitize all Government Documents [back to 1776]...about 2.2 million...we have organized the people to do it. We have found the funds to do it. We will be starting that, I'm sure, later this summer. We expect to have that project completed by the end of '07."

Source: Bruce James, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Government Printing Office at Panel Session on Public Policy from Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects (3/11/06) 1:20:18 (response to Q from David L. at UConn) Quote from 1:22:07 via Shawn W. Nicholson, Head, Government Documents, Michigan State University, GOVDOC-L, March 20, 2006.


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