National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project Available to Purchase

The National Agricultural Library and forty‐two land grant libraries have entered into a cooperative project to test a new method of capturing full‐text and images in digital format for publication on CD‐ROM disks. The digital information management equipment will be installed at the National Agricultural Library, where scanning of selected agricultural collections will take place. The microcomputer/CD‐ROM workstations, search software, and collections on CD‐ROM disks of the selected agricultural information will be field tested by actual faculty and researchers at NAL and the forty‐two participating land grant libraries. During the first phase of the project, four CD‐ROMs containing four different sets of material and using four different retrieval packages will be tested.