Gavin Baker at Open Access News is reporting that the U.S. Government Printing Office has not awarded a contract for a massive digitization project. The Internet Archive made a bid, but it was not accepted for unknown reasons. From the article:
The Internet Archive filed a proposal, partnering with the Law Library Microform Consortium and the University of Florida Libraries. The proposal seems to meet the major requirements of the RFP: most importantly, that the digitization would occur at no cost to the government. In addition to providing free digital copies of the files to GPO, the Internet Archive also proposed to host them OA online.
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