LC National Digital Library Program announces release of scanning contract documents

[Tamara Swora <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

(This announcement has been widely posted)

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The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program announces the
online release of the complete content of the RFPs for its three major
contracts for image scanning and text conversion services.  These have
all have been awarded within the last three years:  

***Paper scanning - Digital Images from Original Documents, Text
Conversion and SGML-Encoding - (which has been available for some time
but now a PDF version has been added)
***Microfilm scanning - Conversion of Microfilm to Digital Images -
(this is new)
***Pictorial scanning - Conversion of Pictorial Materials to Digital
Images - (this is new)

These documents appear at the American Memory website - on the
Background Papers and Technical Information page.  They are offered in
both HTML and PDF versions at the URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Please forward any questions about these contracts and all NDLP
activities to:
ndlpcoll@xxxxxxx