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LOC, Google Digitize Congressional Hearings

By Robert J. Ambrogi

The a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/"Law Library of Congress/a and a href="http://www.google.com/"Google/a have teamed up in a collaborative project to digitize 75,000 volumes of printed a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings.html"Congressional Hearings/a. Eventually, the entire collection will be converted into PDF format. So far, the project has compiled test collections of selected hearings having to do with three topics: the a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/census.html"U.S. census/a, a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/privacy.html"freedom of information and privacy/a, and a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/immigration.html"immigration/a.br /br /[Hat tip to a href="http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2008/scout-081031-re.php#4"The Scout Report/a.]

Full post as published by Lawsites on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).