August 18, 2000
Library of Congress Lags in Providing Digital Resources, Report Says
The Library of Congress must become actively involved in creating digital libraries or risk becoming irrelevant to scholars and the public, says a National Research Council report released last month.
The report, "A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress," depicts an inward-looking institution that no longer leads in setting library standards or in building collections for the information age.
The library "lags significantly" in receiving and
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